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Steve Hanke engagement report

@steve_hanke - 862K followers on X

Measured over 150 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.016%
of 862K followers
Per impression
0.783%
18K views on a typical post
Reach
2.05%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
138
interactions (median)
Saved
0.023%
4 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
5.63/day
active 37% of days
Peak time
00:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 138 interactions against 862K followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 150 original posts, its engagement rate beats 41% of 20,444 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 18K times each, and 0.783% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.04% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 150 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 8% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 18K interactions, about 133x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #pakwatch, #iranwatch, #currencywatchlist.

Measured over 150 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026. Recurring tags: #pakwatch, #iranwatch, #currencywatchlist.

Compared with accounts its own size

Steve Hanke's engagement rate beats 41% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 41% 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 0.016%, Steve Hanke sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,798 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,798 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,879 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 00:00 UTC, and Friday 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: 00:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 00:00 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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Friday
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 video96% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link8% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 96% 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.
  • 8% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 240 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 28, 2026133x their median

    Imran Khan's family, political party and fellow cricket players are sounding the alarm over his deteriorating health in prison. I spoke to his close aide Zulfi Bukhari about his latest condition and the court case his party's filing against the Pakistani government over Khan's hospital visit last week:

    12K5.4K3871051.4M viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 2026108x their median

    ”عمران خان نے کہا، میری قوم کو بتائو یہ جیل میں میرے ساتھ کتنا ظلم کر رہے ہیں۔ یہ انسان نہیں ہیں، انہوں نے مجھے قید تنہائی میں ٹیلی ویژن یا پڑھنے کیلئے کسی بھی قسم کے مواد سے دور رکھا۔ میرے سر میں کچھ ہوتا تھا، میں نے ڈاکٹرز سے اپنی طبیعت کا کئی بار ذکر کیا مگر انہیں کوئی پرواہ نہیں۔“ ہمشیرہ اعظممئ خان، 9 ماہ بعد عمران خان سے ملنے کے بعد ملاقات کا احوال بتاتے ہوئے آبدیدہ

    10K4.2K142103324K viewsView on X
  • Sep 24, 202656x their median

    🇵🇰 Pakistan is cracking down hard ahead of Imran Khan's march on Islamabad, and 2 families tied to his party say they were targeted. Punjab PTI leader Raja Shahbaz Bhatti says police broke down his gate and searched his home last night. Separately, KPK Assembly Speaker Babar Saleem Swati says his nephew, Kamal Saleem Swati, survived a deadly attack and an attempted kidnapping, and has released CCTV footage of the incident. The march, which is planned for Sunday, is demanding Khan's release, and the government is pulling out every stop to keep it from happening. Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, has banned any gathering of 5 or more people in public for the next 13 days, citing intelligence warnings of possible suicide bombings and car bombs at large crowds. Islamabad is already on lockdown, mobile and internet service is set to be cut in neighboring Rawalpindi, and reports say roads into the capital will be blocked with shipping containers and trenches, with bus routes suspended. For a march the government says it isn't worried about, it's going to a lot of trouble. Source: @MohUmair87 / Writer: Julie https://t.co/fg1krBDkMa https://t.co/vbgE7f3Yo8

    5.0K2.6K653390K viewsView on X
  • Sep 24, 202639x their median

    #TurkeyWatch🇹🇷: Turkey blocked 194 X accounts, including economists and journalists, for posting about the $18.3 billion fund scandal. One economist's account was blocked for asking: "Who allowed this to happen?" PRES. ERDOĞAN'S TURKEY = NO FREE PRESS = NO PROBLEM. https://t.co/70IPfQSn4K

    4.2K1.0K11739112K viewsView on X
  • Sep 24, 202630x their median

    Pakistan has deploying thousands of security personnel and banned public gatherings https://t.co/pSsj00S0Q8

    2.7K1.3K8835118K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202622x their median

    "Science is the only true guide in life." – Atatürk https://t.co/Oq6g6Ks6HF

    2.7K288541538K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 202619x their median

    "Peace at home, peace in the world." – Atatürk https://t.co/rGsOOkQC3J

    2.3K19663937K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 202617x their median

    Imran Khan's party seeks contempt action over jailed leader's hospital move https://t.co/uQ5O5omqzS https://t.co/uQ5O5omqzS

    1.7K63937889K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 202615x their median

    #PAKWatch🇵🇰: Yesterday, Imran Khan's sisters took to the streets to demand the IMMEDIATE RELEASE of IMRAN KHAN. PRISONER 804 REMAINS ILLEGALLY JAILED DESPITE A SUPREME COURT RULING TO MOVE HIM TO SHIFA HOSPITAL. FREE CAPTAIN PAKISTAN. https://t.co/px7vqoNtRC

    1.4K590181322K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202613x their median

    #PAKWatch🇵🇰: Today, THOUSANDS took to the streets of Sindh to demand an END to the ILLEGAL 3-YEAR INCARCERATION OF IMRAN KHAN IN ADIALA JAIL. PAKISTANIS ARE FED UP WITH FIELD MARSHAL ASIM MUNIR AND THE PAK GOV'T'S MILITARY RULE.  PAK = 3RD WORLD = FREE CAPTAIN PAKISTAN. https://t.co/CGE9rt8vNg

    1.3K53326626K 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.

Recurring topics

#pakwatch#iranwatch#currencywatchlist#turkeywatch#nkwatch

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 138 interactions against 862K followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 150 original posts, its engagement rate beats 41% of 20,444 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 18K times each, and 0.783% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.04% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 150 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 8% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 18K interactions, about 133x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #pakwatch, #iranwatch, #currencywatchlist.

What is Steve Hanke's engagement rate on X?
Steve Hanke (@steve_hanke) has an engagement rate of 0.016%, based on the median interactions across 150 original posts from the last 30 days against 861,809 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.016%, Steve Hanke sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,798 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 @steve_hanke have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 41% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @steve_hanke post?
Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 5.63 posts per day across the measured window.

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