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Jonathan Chait engagement report

@jonathanchait - 195K followers on X

Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 11, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.017%
of 195K followers
Per impression
0.414%
7.8K views on a typical post
Reach
4.05%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
32
interactions (median)
Saved
0.038%
3 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.03/day
active 70% of days
Peak time
11:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 32 interactions against 195K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% of 19,932 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 7.8K times each, and 0.414% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.03% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 32% carry an image or video, 5% are part of a thread and 71% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.0K interactions, about 281x its own typical post.

Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 11, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Jonathan Chait's engagement rate beats 30% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 23% 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 0.017%, Jonathan Chait sits above the 10th percentile of the 201,665 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.142%
p750.671%
p902.53%
p9982.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 201,665 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,911 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 percentile0.142%
75th percentile0.671%
90th percentile2.53%
99th percentile82.5%

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 11:00 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: 11:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 11:00 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 video32% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link71% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 32% 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.
  • 71% 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 135 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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

  • Sep 14, 2026281x their median

    A fun moment on Air Force One tonight somewhere over the Atlantic. Two officials came back to the press cabin relaying message from the president — did we want to listen to his playlist while he worked? We obliged. And here’s some of what we got; Jolene — Dolly Parton The Undertaker’s WWE entrance music Teenage Wasteland— The WHO Dorma — Pavarotti Fernando — ABBA POTUS later came back to see what we thought. A gaggle followed.

    8.0K4153931942.6M viewsView on X
  • Sep 6, 202687x their median

    You have to be absolutely SICK if you are a Western Michigan fan: https://t.co/WmAatynvhH

    2.2K317161111282K viewsView on X
  • Sep 28, 202658x their median

    Fox News: John Kennedy Proposes Ban On Buildings Named for Living Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) said on Sunday that living public officials should not have buildings named after them and proposed a rule to prohibit such renaming efforts https://t.co/aLDlzGeLlQ

    1.7K1032638120K viewsView on X
  • Nov 11, 202492x their median

    Some personal news. Sad to say goodbye to ⁦@NYMag⁩ but thrilled to be joining ⁦@TheAtlantic⁩ https://t.co/ZwfE2ZwDHA

    1.2K90329197988K viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 202628x their median

    A Gazan's withering assessment of the Western left's tacit support for Hamas, which has oppressed and exploited Palestinians https://t.co/4uDotGXkkM

    69116731645K viewsView on X
  • Sep 7, 202621x their median

    Clinton and Obama raised taxes on the wealthy. It's been a standard Democratic position for decades. (Pretending it isn't is a standard leftist propaganda technique). https://t.co/exUmFQzDUR https://t.co/qSFKX4OnOg

    54683401083K viewsView on X
  • Sep 13, 202615x their median

    I hate to keep harping on this, but has any Harper's letter signatory mentioned this article? Has anyone who works at FIRE commented on it? https://t.co/1i9ri9akbi

    337484740360K viewsView on X
  • Oct 5, 202613x their median

    How the Republican Party has mainstream bigotry against Indian-Americans https://t.co/tR49ptPuO5

    3515817416K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 202613x their median

    The most pronounced change since 9/11 in the GOP is not foreign policy but the normalization of vicious prejudice against Muslims https://t.co/b3c50PgIYd

    3035064969K viewsView on X
  • Oct 7, 202612x their median

    Michael Lewis tells @Timodc how Howard Lutnick’s management of the Commerce Department is pushing out the very experts the government can’t afford to lose. https://t.co/P2DHvpy9fO

    2861006555K 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 32 interactions against 195K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% of 19,932 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 7.8K times each, and 0.414% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.03% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 32% carry an image or video, 5% are part of a thread and 71% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.0K interactions, about 281x its own typical post.

What is Jonathan Chait's engagement rate on X?
Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) has an engagement rate of 0.017%, based on the median interactions across 38 original posts from the last 30 days against 194,809 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.017%, Jonathan Chait sits above the 10th percentile of the 201,665 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 @jonathanchait have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 30% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 @jonathanchait post?
Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.03 posts per day across the measured window.

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