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Have I Got News For You engagement report

@haveigotnews - 964K followers on X

Measured over 70 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 12, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.046%
of 964K followers
Per impression
1.41%
32K views on a typical post
Reach
3.27%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
444
interactions (median)
Saved
0.013%
4 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.33/day
active 77% of days
Peak time
14:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 444 interactions against 964K followers, an engagement rate of 0.046%. Measured over 70 original posts, its engagement rate beats 58% of 20,444 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 32K times each, and 1.41% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.27% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 70 posts sampled, 99% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 11K interactions, about 25x its own typical post.

Measured over 70 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 12, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Have I Got News For You's engagement rate beats 58% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 57% 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 0.046%, Have I Got News For You sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,261 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 14:00 UTC, and Monday 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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 14:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 14:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%89K
01:00 UTC-2%90K
02:00 UTC-3%88K
03:00 UTC-4%94K
04:00 UTC-5%76K
05:00 UTC-4%75K
06:00 UTC-5%86K
07:00 UTC-5%93K
08:00 UTC-4%108K
09:00 UTC-4%124K
10:00 UTC-3%129K
11:00 UTC-3%141K
12:00 UTC-3%154K
13:00 UTC-3%167K
14:00 UTC-4%173K
15:00 UTC-2%176K
16:00 UTC-3%171K
17:00 UTC-3%159K
18:00 UTC-2%149K
19:00 UTC-2%141K
20:00 UTC-1%131K
21:00 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Monday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Formats this account uses

Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video99% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link1% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 99% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
  • 1% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 182 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.

Best tweets

  • Aug 12, 202625x 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

    9.5K1.5K14045221K viewsView on X
  • Sep 8, 202619x their median

    Prince George is to have his first day at Eton. He continues the Royal tradition of paying 70 grand a year for an A-Level in  Geography https://t.co/bAlTmtcnPE

    7.5K63922444203K viewsView on X
  • Aug 5, 202611x 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

    4.2K708321074K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 202611x 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

    4.3K548501257K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 202611x their median

    Priti Patel has been sacked from the shadow. Cabinet, allowing her to focus on what's important in life, like finding the rest of the puppies for that coat she's always wanted https://t.co/cV6KrV4d5P

    4.1K548731384K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20269.9x 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

    3.6K651911381K viewsView on X
  • Sep 8, 20269.2x their median

    Anti-migrant protesters target RNLI crews in Portsmouth. They hope to gain further public support by now going after Paddington and David Attenborough https://t.co/ZpLWK6emCF

    3.4K4981742051K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20269.0x 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

    3.2K6701051644K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20268.3x their median

    King Charles and Camilla have announced plans for an extensive tour of the Caribbean, having suddenly developed a keen interest in being on the other side of the world https://t.co/RHJcwG55kP

    3.4K1661301660K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20267.9x 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

    2.9K542721140K viewsView on X

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 444 interactions against 964K followers, an engagement rate of 0.046%. Measured over 70 original posts, its engagement rate beats 58% of 20,444 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 32K times each, and 1.41% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.27% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 70 posts sampled, 99% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 11K interactions, about 25x 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 0.046%, based on the median interactions across 70 original posts from the last 30 days against 963,891 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.046%, Have I Got News For You sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,261 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 58% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 14:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.33 posts per day across the measured window.

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