Rutger Bregman engagement report
@rcbregman - 372K followers on X
Measured over 4 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 4 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.
A typical post picks up 741 interactions against 372K followers, an engagement rate of 0.199%. Posts are seen about 125K times each, and 0.592% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 33.6% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.7 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 4 posts sampled, 75% carry an image or video and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 14K interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Only 4 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
Measured over 4 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.199%, Rutger Bregman sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,960 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.435%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 159.8% |
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 15:00 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 102K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 233K |
| Monday | 0% | 292K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 284K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 246K |
| Friday | -3% | 255K |
| Saturday | +3% | 229K |
Best tweets
- Jan 2, 201919x their median
So this is Rupert Murdoch reading my book on universal basic income, the 15-hour workweek, and open borders around the globe. I'm sure he'll love it. https://t.co/OPxTBXHO5D https://t.co/pFFVrczgjz
- Jun 26, 20264.6x their median
Elon Musk bragged about feeding USAID into the "wood chipper" but now he pretends that whatever happens as a result isn't his fault. If DOGE had saved the federal government billions of dollars, you can be sure he would be taking credit for that. But somehow he's not responsible for the consequences of eliminating these programs? Today at @TheArgumentMag we published a thorough explanation for why we should hold @elonmusk responsible for the deaths of *at best* 700,000 people. https://t.co/7CWoyQCiDk
- Jul 22, 20262.6x their median
It is often claimed that medieval people did not love their children. This is completely false. https://t.co/2UhtPfMZ1L Some facts about childhood in medieval England: - Parents made vast sacrifices for their children and expected little in return. Supporting a child took about 15 percent of average income, and most children left home at just the age that they might have become net economic assets; - Medieval families were quite small: the average child had one living sibling, like the average child in England today; - The Church thought that foetuses were ensouled at quickening, not conception, so early-term abortion was not treated as homicide. This remained the case until the nineteenth century; - The English government repeatedly banned football to focus boys on archery practice (it was ignored); - There is extensive evidence that medieval parents adored their children and were devastated when they died, which they often did. High infant mortality was just as horrible for medieval people as it would be for us. My review of Nicholas Orme's wonderful book, Medieval Children.
- Aug 26, 20261.8x their median
BILL GATES to NYT: "In private, people who understand how good this stuff is, and how much better it’s getting, they’re very worried. But few tech executives are willing to publicly admit that. They’re now saying to each other: ‘Hey, man, don’t say that. It’s bad for us — the next trillion dollars we’re trying to raise.'" > Gates said he was motivated to speak now because recent improvements in AI had far surpassed his expectations and because the industry had ignored technology milestones — like AI's escaping the control of its creators or making recipes for bioweapons — that it once said would warrant more caution. GATES: "They’re just full speed ahead and hoping that the good outweighs the bad" > Mr. Gates said he was in a "state of shock" as to why there was not more urgency on these issues.
- Jul 16, 20261.8x their median
Is America the most racist country in the world today? I didn’t expect this answer from Democratic Socialist leader Bhaskar Sunkara. https://t.co/aRJR9btLJs
- Aug 3, 20261.6x their median
TIL that Brazilians say 'para inglês ver ('for the English to see') for anything done purely for appearances. It comes from an 1831 law banning the slave trade, passed to make the British happy. 750,000 more Africans were trafficked in before the trade actually stopped (when Britain sent warships). Enforcement matters!
- Jul 29, 2026
This is where climate myopia leads: defending factory farming because it has slightly lower emissions. It's true that caged hens emit less — if you can't move, you don't eat as much grain. Caged humans would also emit less. But the effect is tiny. Even using this study's numbers, a dozen organic eggs has the climate impact of about five minutes of driving. The animal welfare impact is not tiny. A dozen caged eggs requires confining a hen for around 335 hours in a space smaller than a sheet of paper. That's not a climate solution. It's just cruelty with a green label.
- Jul 22, 2026
We put up posters at Harvard that said: 'Don't waste your career at McKinsey.' What happened next? 8% of the entire junior class applied to our fellowship. Meet the first twelve --> https://t.co/YXmwgcCZDe
- Jul 8, 2026
"I don't buy Gary's explanation for it - I don't buy that wealth inequality is the issue!" Kristian Niemietz calls out Gary Stevenson for his answer on why the UK economy has not grown in the last 20 years. 📺https://t.co/I07KbmuHqy @piersmorgan | @garyseconomics | @K_Niemietz https://t.co/Un4opgE6gM
- Sep 1, 2026
Most of the world's chicken comes from just two breeds: the Cobb 500 and the Ross 308. They've been bred to grow so fast that 6–7% collapse and die before slaughter — at just 30 to 40 days old. Even with modern antibiotics and vaccines, these birds have an annualized on-farm death rate of over 50%. It doesn't have to be this way. When Norwegian producers switched to a more robust breed, the Rustic Gold, on-farm mortality fell sixfold. A global switch could spare over 3 billion birds a year from a painful life on a factory farm just to end up in a waste bin. And it could spare tens of billions more from the sub-lethal suffering of lives of chronic pain, constantly on the brink of collapse.
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 741 interactions against 372K followers, an engagement rate of 0.199%. Posts are seen about 125K times each, and 0.592% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 33.6% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.7 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 4 posts sampled, 75% carry an image or video and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 14K interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Only 4 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
- What is Rutger Bregman's engagement rate on X?
- Rutger Bregman (@rcbregman) has an engagement rate of 0.199%, based on the median interactions across 4 original posts from the last 30 days against 372,380 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.199%, Rutger Bregman sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,960 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 @rcbregman have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @rcbregman post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.7 posts per day across the measured window.