Michael Tracey engagement report
@mtracey - 345K followers on X
Measured over 30 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 3, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 124 interactions against 345K followers, an engagement rate of 0.036%. Measured over 30 original posts, its engagement rate beats 35% of 4,294 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 15K times each, and 0.797% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.50% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 30 posts sampled, 63% carry an image or video, 13% are part of a thread and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.8K interactions, about 55x its own typical post.
Measured over 30 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 3, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Michael Tracey's engagement rate beats 35% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,294 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 36% 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 0.036%, Michael Tracey sits above the 25th percentile of the 41,569 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.013% to 0.083%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.013% |
| 50th percentile | 0.083% |
| 75th percentile | 0.447% |
| 90th percentile | 2.07% |
| 99th percentile | 143.8% |
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 19:00 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% | 58K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 59K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 57K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 49K |
| 05:00 UTC | -5% | 48K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 55K |
| 07:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 69K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 80K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 83K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 90K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 99K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 108K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 112K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 116K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 112K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 105K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 97K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 86K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 76K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 66K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 59K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 255K |
| Monday | +1% | 327K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 351K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 315K |
| Thursday | -2% | 267K |
| Friday | -3% | 275K |
| Saturday | +3% | 248K |
Best tweets
- Mar 10, 202155x their median
ANNOUNCEMENT! I have officially joined the land of Substack. It was probably inevitable. But I'm very excited about the opportunities the platform affords. And most of all, looking forward to making insufferable people's heads explode https://t.co/bPZTVNrAKt
- Jun 5, 202536x their median
There is one concrete thing we must insist on this administration delivering. It matters a lot more than debts measured in imaginary money. We have got to deport millions and millions and millions of people. Without that, nothing else matters.
- Aug 24, 202616x their median
As I said last week, the prosecutor’s “mortal sin” question was a blatant violation of Mass. G. Evid. § 610. Now a Commonwealth’s expert has again injected Clancy’s Catholicism into the case. The Commonwealth appears to be substituting religious condemnation for Massachusetts’ legal standard of criminal responsibility. This is not merely improper—it is outrageous. The repeated violations now raise a serious Oregon v. Kennedy question: whether the conduct meets SCOTUS’s narrow “goading” standard—prosecutorial conduct intended to provoke a mistrial. At a minimum, the ADA’s conduct warrants sanctions.
- Aug 29, 202613x their median
GOP primary candidates for Wyoming's at-large congressional district were given a prompt to comment on Israel. Quite a diversity of opinion -- ranging from: "Wyoming First, America Always, and Israel Forever" to "Mossad, Jeffrey Epstein got us in the Iran War" https://t.co/Ts23y4KsvA
- Aug 28, 202612x their median
Remove these foul creatures from public office immediately https://t.co/anbwEba1AE
- Sep 1, 20269.3x their median
If you're frustrated with a potential "hung jury" in the Lindsay Clancy trial, take out your frustrations on this person: an elected official who insisted on First Degree Murder charges, likely for dumb political reasons, rather than plea-bargaining to a more rational resolution https://t.co/5pJCBFNtjq
- Nov 6, 20228.7x their median
These people are unbelievable. The GOP candidate for NJ’s seventh congressional district, Tom Kean Jr., suddenly turned into a complete mute and ran into his car when I tried to ask him a simple question about foreign policy https://t.co/L63EZrqPN8
- Aug 26, 20267.6x their median
What's not being emphasized nearly enough is that the Lindsay Clancy prosecutors made a POLITICAL decision to forego any reasonable resolution to this tragic matter -- via plea deal or otherwise -- because they were so bizarrely hell-bent on holding a gratuitous livestreamed show trial, after spending three and a half years, at huge public expense, teasing out every cynical craven theory they could think of to impugn Lindsay as an innately malignant menace. This isn't just them neutrally "doing their jobs" -- it's political actors squandering government resources with a series of catastrophic political decisions.
- Sep 2, 20264.0x their median
Declining to accept the Government's contention that Lindsay possessed adequate criminal culpability for First Degree Murder is by no means tantamount to "excusing" or "justifying" any child murder. Good job to these jurors for resisting emotional blackmail from both the Government and crazed online vengeance mobs
- Aug 28, 20263.6x their median
Lindsay Clancy jurors have deliberated for 10 hours and were sent home for the weekend. Weird -- wonder what they could even be deliberating? 🤔 Especially since so many mouth-breathers on this site were able to render a bitter, morally absolute verdict in less than two seconds?
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 124 interactions against 345K followers, an engagement rate of 0.036%. Measured over 30 original posts, its engagement rate beats 35% of 4,294 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 15K times each, and 0.797% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.50% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 30 posts sampled, 63% carry an image or video, 13% are part of a thread and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.8K interactions, about 55x its own typical post.
- What is Michael Tracey's engagement rate on X?
- Michael Tracey (@mtracey) has an engagement rate of 0.036%, based on the median interactions across 30 original posts from the last 30 days against 344,561 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.036%, Michael Tracey sits above the 25th percentile of the 41,569 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 @mtracey have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 35% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,294 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 @mtracey post?
- Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.2 posts per day across the measured window.