EnglishTim Urban is on Twitter (X) as @waitbutwhy, with 901,823 followers and 8,304 posts. It has been on X since March 2013, an account age of 13 years.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 5 original posts 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 740 interactions against 902K followers, an engagement rate of 0.082%. Posts are seen about 81K times each, and 0.908% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 9.04% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all.
Measured over 5 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
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Bio
Writer, infant
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