Andrew Torba engagement report
@BasedTorba - 505K followers on X
Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.2K interactions against 505K followers, an engagement rate of 0.229%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 81% of 3,882 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 20K times each, and 5.74% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.98% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 35% carry an image or video and 19% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.8K interactions, about 5.0x its own typical post.
Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Andrew Torba's engagement rate beats 81% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 93% 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 0.229%, Andrew Torba sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,582 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.081% to 0.439%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 158.1% |
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 18:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 62K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 74K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 89K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 104K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 94K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 68K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 59K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 237K |
| Monday | 0% | 300K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 299K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 256K |
| Thursday | -1% | 249K |
| Friday | -3% | 258K |
| Saturday | +3% | 232K |
Best tweets
- Aug 26, 20265.0x their median
The funniest thing about YC is they act like White American men couldn’t build the basic slop apps they juiced with billions in funding. Excuse me, but we conquered the stars, invented the Internet, computing, and pretty much all of modern society. I think we can build an app.
- Aug 27, 20264.8x their median
Early 20’s me going nuclear in the Y Combinator Facebook group in 2016. https://t.co/7H63Fgg5tL
- Aug 26, 20263.4x their median
President of Y Combinator btw https://t.co/VuRLCo70VC
- Aug 23, 20263.1x their median
“You support building more AI data centers across the country?!” Brother, I’m building one in my basement. https://t.co/jklghIsJGE
- Aug 25, 20262.9x their median
Glad everyone gets to see what I saw about Y Combinator a decade ago when they kicked me out. It’s loaded with foreigners who hate our country and people. https://t.co/zL4SpSIK0a
- Aug 26, 20262.4x their median
Y Combinator is statistically more difficult to get into than Harvard. How many American entrepreneurs were rejected in favor of foreigners over the last decade?
- Aug 26, 20262.4x their median
Garry Tan (President of Y Combinator) is a dual citizen btw.
- Aug 26, 20262.3x their median
When I was in Y Combinator one time I was having a debate with one of the foreign founders and he called me an “American exceptionalist” and I was like “uhh ya, duh.” 😂
- Aug 26, 20261.6x their median
This is just one batch of companies Y Combinator funded. There are multiple batches per year. They bring them here, fund them, have their VC friends fund them more, then the foreign companies hire their ethnic kin and import/hire even more of them. Imagine a decade of this across thousands of companies, billions of dollars, and tens of thousands of people.
- Aug 23, 2026
AI is like a tactical nuke sitting on the battlefield ready to be picked up and some of you are looking at it and saying “no we can’t pick that up and use it, only our enemies can do that!”
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.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 1.2K interactions against 505K followers, an engagement rate of 0.229%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 81% of 3,882 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 20K times each, and 5.74% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.98% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 35% carry an image or video and 19% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.8K interactions, about 5.0x its own typical post.
- What is Andrew Torba's engagement rate on X?
- Andrew Torba (@BasedTorba) has an engagement rate of 0.229%, based on the median interactions across 31 original posts from the last 30 days against 505,189 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.229%, Andrew Torba sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,582 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 @BasedTorba have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 81% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 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 @BasedTorba post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.03 posts per day across the measured window.