Have I Got News For You engagement report
@haveigotnews - 967K followers on X
Measured over 59 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 651 interactions against 967K followers, an engagement rate of 0.067%. Measured over 59 original posts, its engagement rate beats 66% of 3,829 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 35K times each, and 1.87% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.59% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 59 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 11K interactions, about 17x its own typical post.
Measured over 59 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Have I Got News For You's engagement rate beats 66% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 69% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.067%, Have I Got News For You sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,037 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 158.8% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 102K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 233K |
| Monday | 0% | 292K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 284K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 246K |
| Friday | -3% | 255K |
| Saturday | +3% | 229K |
Best tweets
- Aug 12, 202617x their median
The result of the Clacton by election should be known by the early hours of Friday morning, with a victory for Nigel Farage looking likely. So for those counting down to the big moment - that makes it just 36 hours until the Parliamentary investigation into Nigel’s £5 Million gift can get back to work
- Aug 5, 20267.7x their median
There’s growing panic in the White House as no one can remember whether it’s Donald Trump’s turn to announce massive strikes on Iran or to announce that he’s called offmassive strikes on Iran because they’re now begging for a deal. More news as we get it https://t.co/I67SurwBmG
- Aug 12, 20267.6x their median
Count Binface continues to impress voters in the Clacton by-election, as it emerges he’s literally the only person in the country able to watch the solar eclipse safely without using those special glasses https://t.co/t2HQgUFvC9
- Aug 19, 20266.7x their median
Donald Trump is upset people are talking about his relationship with aide Natalie Harp, so we definitely shouldn't do that or point out how weird it is https://t.co/8BO5Vxz3Tz
- Aug 18, 20266.1x their median
Reform's Richard Tice has criticised negativity around climate change, saying 'just enjoy the heatwave', in a huge breakthrough for scientists studying the link between overheating and loss of brain function https://t.co/9wUzv2IVFc
- Aug 19, 20265.4x their median
Reform has suspended a prominent party member for questioning how well Nigel Farage handles criticism, that'll show they're not a bunch of thin-skinned snowflakes https://t.co/dmW7Uy8aSy
- Aug 14, 20265.4x their median
Right everyone - where were we? https://t.co/8fP7QKUJ4E
- Aug 24, 20264.6x their median
Russia has accused the UK of 'adding fuel to the fire' in Ukraine. No word yet on who started that fire https://t.co/xMNc9Oulsv
- Aug 21, 20264.3x their median
Meghan Markle is returning to the UK to 'take on an acting role'. Primarily, acting like she hasn't married into a family of racists, spongers and sex pests https://t.co/ijq7oHJXYE
- Aug 20, 20264.1x their median
An AI GP receptionist in Rotherham won't book appointments because it can't understand Yorkshire accents, leading to calls for a traditional return to human GP receptionists, who won't book appointments because they hate you https://t.co/5dvcQeFYXJ
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 651 interactions against 967K followers, an engagement rate of 0.067%. Measured over 59 original posts, its engagement rate beats 66% of 3,829 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 35K times each, and 1.87% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.59% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 59 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 11K interactions, about 17x its own typical post.
- What is Have I Got News For You's engagement rate on X?
- Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) has an engagement rate of 0.067%, based on the median interactions across 59 original posts from the last 30 days against 966,551 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.067%, Have I Got News For You sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,037 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @haveigotnews have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 66% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @haveigotnews post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.97 posts per day across the measured window.