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Stephen Hayes engagement report

@stephenfhayes - 267K followers on X

Measured over 22 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.061%
of 267K followers
Per impression
0.286%
57K views on a typical post
Reach
21.2%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
162
interactions (median)
Saved
0.032%
18 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
4.37/day
active 83% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 162 interactions against 267K followers, an engagement rate of 0.061%. Measured over 22 original posts, its engagement rate beats 52% of 16,684 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 57K times each, and 0.286% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 21.2% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 22 posts sampled, 32% carry an image or video, 14% are part of a thread and 59% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 103x its own typical post.

Measured over 22 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Stephen Hayes's engagement rate beats 52% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (16,684 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 18% 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 0.061%, Stephen Hayes sits above the 25th percentile of the 167,119 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.022% to 0.13%.

p100.003%
p250.022%
p50 (median)0.13%
p750.613%
p902.36%
p9982.6%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 167,119 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 25,016 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 percentile0.003%
25th percentile0.022%
50th percentile0.13%
75th percentile0.613%
90th percentile2.36%
99th percentile82.6%

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 16:00 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.

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: 16:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 16:00 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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Tuesday
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 video32% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link59% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 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.
  • 59% 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 274 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

  • Aug 30, 2026103x their median

    Life is beautiful. https://t.co/MMEtN40jw5

    14K1.9K353145880K viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 202637x their median

    A group of non-white American kids cheering on a football team in their college colors and stetsons is more American than those who look at the picture and hate what they see.

    4.9K44554477160K viewsView on X
  • Sep 8, 202633x their median

    NEW The Wall Street Journal has just published a new story about Corey Lewandowski’s corruption while he was a special government employee at DHS. Lewandowski pitched a wealthy Gulf state to “hire me on the side,” offering help with issues under DHS jurisdiction, including visas. After Palantir negotiated a $2.7 billion DHS agreement, the contract sat unsigned while Lewandowski repeatedly sought a private one-on-one meeting with CEO Alex Karp. Karp and other Palantir officials were so uncomfortable with the circumstances that the meeting was canceled. The agreement was ultimately reduced to $1 billion. Full Story: https://t.co/o03L9FrQOE

    3.8K1.3K1321411.2M viewsView on X
  • Sep 21, 202620x their median

    How about that. https://t.co/ShovXKstjO

    2.6K25528387215K viewsView on X
  • Sep 16, 202619x their median

    From @KarlRove, a well-crafted excoriation of the GOP's ever-growing bigot/nut wing. https://t.co/QdUQpxyeoP https://t.co/65FKF0m1vR

    2.3K50017856165K viewsView on X
  • Sep 22, 202612x their median

    NEW: Former VP Kamala Harris says Pres. Trump's media ban of CNN/MSNOW/Politico is "abhorrent" "The man is afraid of the voice of the people... he's trying to stifle the ability of journalists to let the people of America know what's really going on in their government." https://t.co/rfL3heTcpD

    1.5K34112834340K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20267.9x their median

    Paul Ryan smacks down Scott Bessent's claim that the US "can grow our way out" of $40T in debt. “I believe in growth, but it can only go so far. You can’t fix this problem without growth, but you can’t fix this problem only with growth.” From "Next Right" and @MichaelRWarren https://t.co/HJ8FQyH1tI

    8591851933685K viewsView on X
  • Sep 10, 20263.6x their median

    What is it like to have lost a father you didn't know on 9/11? A moving reflection from Cat Brennan, who was one on that horrible day. https://t.co/AJIrtiTt2W

    503743656K viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 20262.2x their median

    Sen CURTIS on $5k dividend checks Trump promised to Americans if GOP kept the majority: “Well, let me just say, if we have that kind of money, it should be going to the deficit. And if President Trump wants to give that kind of money, let him write personal checks.”

    301431966K viewsView on X
  • Sep 22, 20262.1x their median

    Americans are hurting from rising diesel costs driven by an unprecedented disruption to global refining capacity. We understand the administration is looking at every option to deliver relief, but restricting U.S. energy exports would only compound the problem — exacerbating refining challenges and ultimately hurting consumers. The answer is more supply and more flexibility — not new restrictions that risk making a difficult situation worse.

    254551818154K 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 162 interactions against 267K followers, an engagement rate of 0.061%. Measured over 22 original posts, its engagement rate beats 52% of 16,684 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 57K times each, and 0.286% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 21.2% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 22 posts sampled, 32% carry an image or video, 14% are part of a thread and 59% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 103x its own typical post.

What is Stephen Hayes's engagement rate on X?
Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) has an engagement rate of 0.061%, based on the median interactions across 22 original posts from the last 30 days against 266,980 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.061%, Stephen Hayes sits above the 25th percentile of the 167,119 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 @stephenfhayes have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 52% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (16,684 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 @stephenfhayes post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.37 posts per day across the measured window.

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