Norman Finkelstein engagement report
@normfinkelstein - 484K followers on X
Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 22, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 451 interactions against 484K followers, an engagement rate of 0.093%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% of 20,182 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 21K times each, and 2.15% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.33% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 22% carry an image or video, 11% are part of a thread and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 57K interactions, about 231x its own typical post.
Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 22, 2026. Recurring tag: #athens.
Compared with accounts its own size
Norman Finkelstein's engagement rate beats 70% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,182 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 69% 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 0.093%, Norman Finkelstein sits above the 25th percentile of the 202,467 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.142%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.142% |
| 75th percentile | 0.673% |
| 90th percentile | 2.54% |
| 99th percentile | 82.6% |
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 02:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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 | 22% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 22% 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.
- 100% 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 206 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
- Oct 10, 2023231x their median
Norman Finkelstein's book, GAZA: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom, is now #1 on Amazon's Middle East bestseller books https://t.co/MSp48qMlDT https://t.co/nOBJTusOFp
- Sep 13, 202616x their median
In Praise of the Houthis https://t.co/qbDXIoRjMK
- Sep 15, 202614x their median
Tucker Carlson: Norman Finkelstein Reveals Shocking Discoveries While Researching History of Israel’s Gaza Obsession https://t.co/E94LUpIcCv
- Sep 23, 202613x their median
https://t.co/aQrANUQitK Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: Hen Mazzig
- Mar 24, 202622x their median
“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.” — Hossam Shabat, killed by Israeli forces, March 24, 2025 https://t.co/pWpoTD6qgW
- May 31, 202611x their median
My two indefatigable editors who saved Gaza's Gravediggers from a premature death https://t.co/Z5jmDo8a58
- Sep 9, 202610x their median
Gaza’s Gravediggers An Inquiry into Corruption in High Places NORMAN G. FINKELSTEIN https://t.co/Au1rml1iA4 https://t.co/Je1UqDpkpc
- May 25, 20268.2x their median
The sinister plot behind the far-right's shift on Israel | Norman Finkelstein interview https://t.co/ZUQIcbWe5p
- Mar 24, 202613x their median
MY CLASS, OUR FUTURE https://t.co/j9xhLXd3bI
- Sep 15, 20266.9x their median
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN UK TOUR – SEPTEMBER 2026 https://t.co/xIIKSrRLWL https://t.co/s6EhlDXrm9
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 451 interactions against 484K followers, an engagement rate of 0.093%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% of 20,182 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 21K times each, and 2.15% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.33% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 22% carry an image or video, 11% are part of a thread and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 57K interactions, about 231x its own typical post.
- What is Norman Finkelstein's engagement rate on X?
- Norman Finkelstein (@normfinkelstein) has an engagement rate of 0.093%, based on the median interactions across 9 original posts from the last 30 days against 483,676 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.093%, Norman Finkelstein sits above the 25th percentile of the 202,467 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 @normfinkelstein have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 70% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,182 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 @normfinkelstein post?
- Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.57 posts per day across the measured window.