Yaroslav Trofimov engagement report
@yarotrof - 168K followers on X
Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 22, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.2K interactions against 168K followers, an engagement rate of 0.743%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 87% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 122K times each, and 1.02% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 72.5% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 56% carry an image or video and 22% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 29K interactions, about 23x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #gaca, #statement.
Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 22, 2026. Recurring tags: #gaca, #statement.
Compared with accounts its own size
Yaroslav Trofimov's engagement rate beats 87% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 42% 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 0.743%, Yaroslav Trofimov sits above the 75th percentile of the 205,374 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the top 25% band, which runs 0.678% to 2.55%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 17:00 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% | 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 | 56% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 22% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 56% 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.
- 22% 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 381 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.
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 19, 202623x their median
Les ĂŠmeutes gagnent mĂŞme la Suisse. https://t.co/fl6M1eJOfU
- Oct 18, 20267.6x their median
Russian Kosmos 2612 and ICEYE-X36 (providing Ukraine military support) are now in perfect sync with each other. The Russian military satellite is intentionally stalking and tracking the Western radar satellite. Keeping a satellite "bumper-to-bumper" in this manner allows Russia to intercept or jam data transmissions, physically inspect Western technology, or quickly pivot to execute a kinetic or non-kinetic anti-satellite (ASAT) attack with very little warning or fuel expenditure. Kosmos 2612 executed a series of highly precise, fuel-heavy maneuvers to force itself into a "coplanar" orbitâmatching ICEYE-X36's exact altitude (~555 km), speed, and inclination (~97.8°). The ICEYE-X36 satellite is giving the Ukraine military support.
- Oct 21, 20267.4x their median
Vladimir Putin is not our friend, and he is certainly no humanitarian. His relentless attacks on innocent civilians in Ukraine show his total disregard for human life. Appeasement won't end this war. Pressure will.
- Sep 18, 20265.4x their median
âĄď¸ BREAKING: Putin signed a decree nationalizing the Russian assets of Western giants Auchan, NestlĂŠ, and Leroy Merlin, placing them under state-controlled management. The forced takeover comes after the companies spent years refusing to exit the Russian market. https://t.co/hpBxZjqFXC
- Sep 17, 20263.1x their median
Polish PM Donald Tusk: In May 1939, a certain French politician, a future Nazi collaborator, asked in the French press: "Why die for GdaĹsk?" A few months later, all of Europe was dying. To those who today say that this is not our war, I remind them of this lesson of history. https://t.co/0fpz2uWSAk
- Oct 19, 20263.1x their median
Russian military blogger says Ukrainian mid-range drone strikes on the main Russian supply route in occupied southern Ukraine have almost ceased because of the throttling of Starlink. No need to elaborate on what this new freedom of logistics for Russia means for the frontline. https://t.co/EXYuCU7CLh
- Oct 17, 20262.5x their median
Based on the information currently available to us, we cannot confirm that Starshieldâs full capabilities have been restored. Four (4!) days after we submitted our inquiries, we have yet to receive a response from the Pentagon or SpaceX. We hope to receive confirmation that unlimited speeds have been restored and that Starshield is operating as it did previously, providing reliable communications essential to protecting our people amid intensified Russian aerial attacks.
- Sep 18, 20262.4x their median
Slovakiaâs prime minister Fico says he wonât go to war to defend NATO allies âbecause of some Article 5.â Why are Slovak troops deployed to the Baltics then? For fresh air? https://t.co/zrS3V0VA7K
- Sep 9, 20262.1x their median
Trump sent Ratcliffe to Moscow. Putin refused to see Ratcliffe because he didnât like the message, and asked for different Americans with a different message. Witkoff and Kushner promptly arrived, pleasing Putin with tales about how they would cherish âincredible memoriesâ of his blessed presence. Now Trump is back to calling Zelensky an obstacle to peace. Itâs fun to negotiate with America.
- Sep 12, 2026
Trump: "Canada wants to make a deal very badly just like Iran wants to make a deal very badly. I hope Canada appreciates being in the same sentence with Iran." https://t.co/rZ41z3149J
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 1.2K interactions against 168K followers, an engagement rate of 0.743%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 87% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 122K times each, and 1.02% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 72.5% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 56% carry an image or video and 22% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 29K interactions, about 23x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #gaca, #statement.
- What is Yaroslav Trofimov's engagement rate on X?
- Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) has an engagement rate of 0.743%, based on the median interactions across 18 original posts from the last 30 days against 167,749 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.743%, Yaroslav Trofimov sits above the 75th percentile of the 205,374 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 @yarotrof have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 87% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the top quarter for its size 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 @yarotrof post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.23 posts per day across the measured window.