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Saifedean Ammous engagement report

@saifedean - 423K followers on X

Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 9, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.101%
of 423K followers
Per impression
1.10%
39K views on a typical post
Reach
9.22%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
429
interactions (median)
Saved
0.108%
42 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
4.27/day
active 37% of days
Peak time
11:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 429 interactions against 423K followers, an engagement rate of 0.101%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 65% of 6,874 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 39K times each, and 1.10% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 9.22% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 69% carry an image or video, 8% are part of a thread and 54% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.5K interactions, about 8.1x its own typical post.

Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 9, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Saifedean Ammous's engagement rate beats 65% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 50% 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 0.101%, Saifedean Ammous sits above the 50th percentile of the 68,879 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.1% to 0.5%.

p100.002%
p250.016%
p50 (median)0.1%
p750.5%
p902.09%
p99116.0%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 68,879 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 55,257 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.016%
50th percentile0.1%
75th percentile0.5%
90th percentile2.09%
99th percentile116.0%

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 Thursday 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video69% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link54% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 69% 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.
  • 54% 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 221 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

  • Nov 10, 20258.1x their median

    Property Rights: The Root Cause of the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the inevitable result of the destruction of a centuries-old system of private property rights and its replacement by race-based state ownership. Since 1947, property rights in Palestine have been replaced by a government agency that owns the majority of land, constantly steals more, never sells, and only leases land to one racial group. Religious and racial conflict are not destined in Palestine; they are historically rare occurrences, but this system of property rights would create violent conflict anywhere. In 1945, the British mandate government surveyed land ownership in Palestine and found that Jews owned 5.67% of the total land, while Muslims, Christians & other denominations owned 48.31% of the land. The remaining 46.02% was public land, mainly in the sparsely inhabited desert in the south, most of which was de facto owned by the Bedouins who herded there. Among the privately-owned lands, only 10.5% was owned by Jews, while 89.5% was owned by non-Jews. There was not a single district in Palestine in which Jews owned a majority of the land, as this illustration makes clear.[1] In 1917, when the Balfour Declaration was issued, the Jewish population ranged from 4% to 13%. In 1945, the population of Palestine was 1,764,520, of which 69% were Muslim and Christian, and 31% were Jewish.[2] The majority of the Jewish population was recent immigrants from Europe, many illegal. Even after decades of legal and illegal immigration, land purchases financed by European benefactors, and terrorism against Palestinian civilians and British forces, the Zionist movement had less than a third of the population of Palestine, and owned less than 6% of its land when it established its ethnostate. To establish an ethnostate on a land in which the right ethnicity was less than a third of the population, and owned less than a twelfth of the land, Zionist terrorists engaged in a premeditated and systematic campaign of terrorism, murder, and violent expulsion, meticulously planned from the 1930s, ruthlessly executed against a largely unarmed population, and practically continuing until this day, explaining the conflict’s longevity. This has been extensively documented by Palestinian historians, such as Walid Khalidi and Rashid Khalidi, as well as by Israeli historians like Ilan Pappe and Benny Morris.[3] [Continues in next tweet]

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  • Aug 29, 20265.3x their median

    גם השבת בדקתי, ומדובר ביהודים. אזהרת טריגר טויוטות לבנות עם רעולי פנים https://t.co/8LLtrMhAqq

    1.8K24811470227K viewsView on X
  • Jul 24, 20253.3x their median

    Understanding Bitcoin will change how you see the world. https://t.co/O9kmpAomIr is your guide - featuring books by @LynAldenContact, @parkeralewis, @matthewlysiak, @RicardoBSalinas, and me -including The Bitcoin Standard, which has sold more than 1 million copies in 39 languages!

    1.1K19014218347K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20262.8x their median

    BITCOIN IS A PONZI SCHEME! https://t.co/V5ymJHj9BC

    9421656332164K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20261.6x their median

    Israeli leftist youth group plans kibbutz-style settlement in West Bank https://t.co/V4rlwtvApo

    2267286288693K viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 20261.6x their median

    Friendly visitor to a home in Turmus’ayya. https://t.co/Rn6em6lU37

    528107181250K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 2026

    FT: “Imagine a super-AI armed with access to all the data we let our devices record for every transaction we enter into….Such an AI would surely bury Hayek… it shows that AI removes one of the 20th century’s strongest arguments against central planning.” https://t.co/7mpfVlIs9f https://t.co/NMA62qKGzD

    24244128142579K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 2026

    The Israeli Ministry of Defense & Israeli defense companies have directed millions in unreported funding to US university research programs for weapons development, sponsoring research directly or serving as the pass-through entity for the funding, a Drop Site investigation found https://t.co/SHQXxJTxmp

    3241447525K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 2026

    "Milei’s magic fades on Argentina’s slowing economic recovery" Quadrupling the money supply while ranting about lefties isn't working Do the US Treasury, IMF, WB, or IDB have more dozens of billions of dollars lying around for yet another bailout? https://t.co/gHgmZ7UgIp

    3385632316K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 2026

    Gadi Eisenkot, a leading challenger for Israeli prime minister in the upcoming election, on the Palestinian state: “I am against the establishment of a Palestinian state. I have said this on many occasions. I have never said the solution is two states for two peoples. In the reality that has been created, pursuing peace right now and two states for two peoples is unrealistic, strategically wrong, and a risk to the State of Israel.”

    14789141639K 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 429 interactions against 423K followers, an engagement rate of 0.101%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 65% of 6,874 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 39K times each, and 1.10% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 9.22% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 69% carry an image or video, 8% are part of a thread and 54% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.5K interactions, about 8.1x its own typical post.

What is Saifedean Ammous's engagement rate on X?
Saifedean Ammous (@saifedean) has an engagement rate of 0.101%, based on the median interactions across 13 original posts from the last 30 days against 423,300 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.101%, Saifedean Ammous sits above the 50th percentile of the 68,879 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 @saifedean have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 65% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 @saifedean post?
Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.27 posts per day across the measured window.

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