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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.142% |
| 75th percentile | 0.671% |
| 90th percentile | 2.53% |
| 99th percentile | 82.5% |
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.
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 | 32% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 71% 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.
- Sep 6, 202687x their median
You have to be absolutely SICK if you are a Western Michigan fan: https://t.co/WmAatynvhH
- 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
- Nov 11, 202492x their median
Some personal news. Sad to say goodbye to @NYMag but thrilled to be joining @TheAtlantic https://t.co/ZwfE2ZwDHA
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Oct 5, 202613x their median
How the Republican Party has mainstream bigotry against Indian-Americans https://t.co/tR49ptPuO5
- 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
- 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
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.