EnglishTim O'Reilly is on Twitter (X) as @timoreilly, with 4,560,720 followers and 47,181 posts. It lost 5,432 followers in the last 7 days, for a net gain of 92,276 over the last 30 days. A typical post draws 316 interactions, an engagement rate of 0.007% per follower.
Insights
Over the last 30 days @timoreilly gained 92,276 followers (+2.02%). In the last 7 days the change was -5,432 followers. Its strongest tracked day added +327,423 followers on Jun 23, 2026. At the current pace, @timoreilly is on track to reach 5.0M followers in about 21 weeks.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 316 interactions against 4.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 29% of 20,182 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 90K times each, and 0.351% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.97% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline.
Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
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Best tracked day: +327K followers on 2026-06-23.
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Bio
Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold. Didn't pay for a blue check, cannot make it go away
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