Human Rights Watch engagement report
@hrw - 4.8M followers on X
Measured over 56 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 136 interactions against 4.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 56 original posts, its engagement rate beats 19% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 15K times each, and 0.885% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.322% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 56 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video, 14% are part of a thread and 77% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.4K interactions, about 69x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #houthis, #bahrain, #ethiopia.
Measured over 56 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 26, 2026. Recurring tags: #houthis, #bahrain, #ethiopia.
Compared with accounts its own size
Human Rights Watch's engagement rate beats 19% 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 44% 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 0.003%, Human Rights Watch sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,694 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.677% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 Wednesday 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% | 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 50% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 77% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 50% 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.
- 77% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 318 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.
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
- Oct 14, 202669x their median
Excessive force. Beatings. Arbitrary detentions. Harassment of journalists. Indian authorities have not let up their assault on peaceful protesters, who are denouncing a voter list revision process that deleted over 130 million names. #India https://t.co/q6yQ6ColUx
- Sep 30, 202651x their median
From 2023 to 2026, Google Earth's updated satellite imagery shows what's left of Gaza. The images reflect what Human Rights Watch has already found: Israel has caused deliberate, widespread destruction throughout Gaza ⤵️ https://t.co/T7LTFfmIZO
- Oct 13, 202647x their median
Indian authorities are using abusive methods to crack down on thousands of peaceful protesters in New Delhi and other Indian cities. The protests, led by the Gen Z Cockroach Janta Party, opposition parties, student organizations, and civil society groups, have demanded the resignation of the country’s top election official over alleged wrongdoing and the scrapping of a contentious voter list revision process. https://t.co/N4RdOuhjZT
- Oct 7, 202629x their median
Thousands are protesting across India against changes to voter rolls that have stripped millions of their right to vote. Police have detained scores of protesters, and authorities have cut off mobile internet services near protest sites. Indian authorities need to release all detained for peacefully protesting, stop suspending internet services, and investigate complaints of police abuse.
- Oct 5, 202624x their median
Amid protests in India over large-scale changes to voter rolls, Indian authorities should release anyone detained solely for peacefully expressing their views. Authorities should order police to exercise restraint, stop suspending internet services to stifle protests, and ensure people can protest peacefully. https://t.co/1fg541ihJD
- Oct 9, 202616x their median
👏 👏 👏 Congratulations to Navi Pillay, an activist, human rights investigator, and international judge, who has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. From Rwanda to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Navi Pillay has sought justice for the world’s worst crimes. https://t.co/ZNKL7JT3Ie
- Sep 21, 202613x their median
US President Donald Trump recently announced a ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico for White House coverage. When you attack the independent media, you undermine democracy. Access to information is a critical human right. https://t.co/Exhje9OKd4
- Oct 9, 202611x their median
On October 9, the United States government sanctioned the International Criminal Court, citing ICC jurisdiction over crimes by US nationals abroad. This is an unprecedented assault on global justice and the rule of law. Read HRW's statement: https://t.co/Gy8VtcE7gs https://t.co/1WZY0Dyp0V
- Oct 9, 202610x their median
The Trump administration’s decision to sanction the International Criminal Court is an unprecedented assault on global justice and the rule of law. By attacking the ICC, the US government is threatening justice for victims of abuses from Palestine to Ukraine, Myanmar, and Sudan. Read more: https://t.co/unVlBVNNpJ
- Sep 23, 20267.3x their median
12 years ago today, my father, Ilham Tohti, was sentenced to life in prison for “separatism”—a charge that bears no resemblance to the work he dedicated his life to. My father is an Uyghur economist, scholar, writer, educator, husband, father, and believer. Above all, he was a man who devoted his life and his own resources to fostering dialogue, supporting his community, bridging divides, and helping people understand one another. He is not the criminal the Chinese government has portrayed him to be. A man who spent his life building bridges should never have been locked behind bars. For 12 years, our family has lived with his absence. For 9 years, we have had no family visit with him. Today, on the 12th anniversary of his life sentence, I once again call on the Chinese government: Release Ilham Tohti. Let my father come home. Let him read, write, think, teach, and love his family freely again! #FreeIlhamTohti
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.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 136 interactions against 4.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 56 original posts, its engagement rate beats 19% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 15K times each, and 0.885% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.322% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 56 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video, 14% are part of a thread and 77% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.4K interactions, about 69x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #houthis, #bahrain, #ethiopia.
- What is Human Rights Watch's engagement rate on X?
- Human Rights Watch (@hrw) has an engagement rate of 0.003%, based on the median interactions across 56 original posts from the last 30 days against 4,759,505 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.003%, Human Rights Watch sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,694 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 @hrw have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 19% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size 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 @hrw post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.83 posts per day across the measured window.