Nate Silver’s engagement chart is being excoriated online after users noticed some questionable labeling.
The 2026 engagement chart shows which X accounts are getting the most attention so far this year. While there are the expected names, such as X owner Elon Musk, Libs of TikTok and the White House, there were some other names that users were quick to point out as being mislabeled.
Look:
These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken. pic.twitter.com/zHrS7T0iVD
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 5, 2026
“These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken,” Silver wrote.
And yes, I have criticisms of pre-Elon Twitter and obviously Bluesky, too. But things tend to get especially broken when you suppress outbound traffic and break links to the rest of the web, as with Twitter now or mid/late-2010s Facebook.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 5, 2026
“And yes, I have criticisms of pre-Elon Twitter and obviously Bluesky, too. But things tend to get especially broken when you suppress outbound traffic and break links to the rest of the web, as with Twitter now or mid/late-2010s Facebook,” he added in a follow-up post.
But people had questions about how he chose to categorize some accounts:
lol Jackson Hinkle is a literal communist
PS: Remember “build your own Twitter”?
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 5, 2026
To be clear… you’re using a data set that classifies Fox News as right-leaning and CNN as neutral… is that accurate?
What are the determining factor(s) in the data that decide if an account is Right, Left or Neutral? pic.twitter.com/DBQuwUyzCw
— Chris Gachko (@CGachko) April 6, 2026
Numbers aren’t even remotely accurate.
Account left/right not accurate.
— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 5, 2026
Adam kinzinger is neutral?
— HowlingMutant (@Howlingmutant0) April 6, 2026
Jackson Hinkle is not right leaning lmao
— RiverOaksGuy (@Bowtiedplayer) April 6, 2026
Since when is Jackson Hinkle, actual self-professed Communist party member, “right wing?”
— Anna (@VeritasSola) April 6, 2026
Pop Base is wholly leftist and it comes out in their non-political posts. So that should be blue not grey
— Phil (@RealPhillyP) April 5, 2026
Gonna have to call bullshit on Russia Today being neutral though
— Gary Koepnick (@garykoepnick) April 5, 2026
Uhhh lmao Jackson hinkle is red, Lincoln project is blue.
— TaniaSaidWhat (@TaniaSaidWhat) April 5, 2026
TMZ neutral? LMFAO!!!
— Brittany Rae (@legitbrittFLA) April 5, 2026
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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