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zeynep tufekci engagement report

@zeynep - 379K followers on X

Measured over 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.094%
of 379K followers
Per impression
1.19%
30K views on a typical post
Reach
7.86%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
356
interactions (median)
Saved
0.124%
37 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.4/day
active 73% of days
Peak time
06:00 UTC
Friday

Early reading. We have captured 1 original post 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 356 interactions against 379K followers, an engagement rate of 0.094%. Posts are seen about 30K times each, and 1.19% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.86% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.3K interactions, about 12x its own typical post. Only 1 original post 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 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026. Recurring tag: #ai.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.094%, zeynep tufekci sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,048 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,048 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 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 06:00 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: 06:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 06:00 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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link0% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 100% 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.
  • 0% 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 198 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 15, 202612x their median

    EXCLUSIVE: Two DHS Sources Confirm to Migrant Insider — The ICE Agent Who Pointed His Gun at a U.S. Citizen in Virginia Is Martin Lagunas https://t.co/1xtlQ8APhI

    3.2K1.1K5234592K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 2026

    How to Stop a Lab Leak from Starting the Next Pandemic. My new op-ed made possible by the @nytimes graphics and editorial team: https://t.co/btZiDn5llf https://t.co/JRZsAxfLsT

    3571073731105K viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 2026

    there's no standard 'rehabilitation' procedure for the disgraced since we lack a postmodern collective religious framework and practice now if you fuck up you're gonna have to figure out how to fend for yourself or fix yourself enough to be reintegrated into society someday. and i don't think anyone's working on *this*

    339176556K viewsView on X
  • Sep 25, 2026

    I wrote a piece for Quillette about why AI “safety” people are so dangerous. They believe security won’t work and our only solution is to make sure AI is nice. It’s absurd. https://t.co/gCNkhS1Ym2

    2583952730K viewsView on X
  • Jul 28, 2026

    This is horrifying. Pretending to be an ICE agent to terrorize our neighbors is cruel, disgusting, and dangerous. These individuals must be held fully accountable. ICE’s lawlessness and secrecy lets this violence flourish. https://t.co/YkL8V1eYxQ

    2277242573K viewsView on X
  • Feb 24, 2026

    My Princeton AI and society team is at the @IASEAIorg AI summit in Paris. My Neurips keynote for our approach: https://t.co/tfP0C7PhpT Our paper: https://t.co/v5uKOzceyX Say hi especially if you are *utterly* unimpressed by the current doom or hype models. Wrong nightmares!

    218758799K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 2026

    Anthropic started watermarking Claude’s output. I did a little investigation into what method they used: https://t.co/w3Y3lezCWS It’s likely they’re using some private key watermark similar to SynthID. They’re likely not using hidden Unicode or using green/red lists

    201328158K viewsView on X
  • Jul 29, 2026

    A backlash against Anthropic is brewing in Silicon Valley, rooted in concerns about the company’s product launches that compete with existing software providers and its advocacy for a closed AI ecosystem https://t.co/uYrkVFZjNf

    163341310103K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 2026

    Former Senior NIAID Official [David Morens] Pleads Guilty to Charges Connected to Concealing Federal Records During COVID-19 Pandemic https://t.co/ZV9QgSeRKv

    117408624K viewsView on X
  • Aug 5, 2026

    An Article in Science on Wet-Market Covid Origins is Unreliable by Michael B. Weissman An influential paper by Worobey et al. and 17 other authors published in Science in 2022 claimed that case locations and nucleic acid samples showed that SARS-CoV-2 had first been introduced to humans at the Huanan Seafood Market. Several lines of evidence suggest the introduction to humans was earlier and elsewhere. https://t.co/lVafcbPmUI

    1092511933K 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

#ai

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 356 interactions against 379K followers, an engagement rate of 0.094%. Posts are seen about 30K times each, and 1.19% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.86% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.3K interactions, about 12x its own typical post. Only 1 original post 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 zeynep tufekci's engagement rate on X?
zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) has an engagement rate of 0.094%, based on the median interactions across 1 original posts from the last 30 days against 379,473 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.094%, zeynep tufekci sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,048 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 @zeynep have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @zeynep post?
Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.4 posts per day across the measured window.

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