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Luke Wroblewski engagement report

@LukeW - 285K followers on X

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 7, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.017%
of 285K followers
Per impression
0.481%
9.8K views on a typical post
Reach
3.52%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
47
interactions (median)
Saved
0.154%
15 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.73/day
active 60% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 47 interactions against 285K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 32% of 6,874 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 9.8K times each, and 0.481% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.43% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 61% carry an image or video, 26% are part of a thread and 22% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 54K interactions, about 1148x its own typical post.

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 7, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Luke Wroblewski's engagement rate beats 32% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 29% 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 0.017%, Luke Wroblewski sits above the 25th percentile of the 66,128 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.016% to 0.1%.

p100.002%
p250.016%
p50 (median)0.1%
p750.499%
p902.09%
p99119.9%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 66,128 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 57,111 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.016%
50th percentile0.1%
75th percentile0.499%
90th percentile2.09%
99th percentile119.9%

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 15:00 UTC, and Thursday 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: 15:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 15:00 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video61% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link22% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 61% 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.
  • 22% 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 208 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 3, 20261148x their median

    AI is a supersonic tsunami https://t.co/JSaE91DkHS

    45K4.5K3.5K7468.9M viewsView on X
  • Aug 7, 2026166x their median

    Don't let your node UIs become spaghetti, embrace cable management https://t.co/pPpTOBDnh0

    7.0K385265126514K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 202627x their median

    I gave GPT-6 Astra a 38 page PDF of blueprints and renders of a cabin. ~10min and I had a to-scale 3D walkthrough of interior and exterior. https://t.co/9zn8jHNH3K

    1.2K5944683K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 202623x their median

    The job market is a tale of two cities right now. The difference I am noticing between the folks who are inundated with eye-watering seven-figure offers and those who have trouble finding a role is simply the ability to keep learning, adapting, and getting better. It's a brave new world out there. Gone are the days of sticky notes and following the "right process." Things to start doing : 1. Get comfortable with code. Like, now. If you missed the boat on trad code, plenty of IDEs to play with. Did you start yet? No?? I'm begging you, please. For me. 2. Build personal projects. What are you building in your free time? What is the real you, free from the shitty design systems that bind you, capable of? This also clearly demonstrates a builder's mindset and agency. 3. Work on your visual design and creativity. I think years ago, "complexity in the work" and "product thinking" allowed us to get away with weaker craft, but no more. Get weird, people. Have fun with your site and portfolio. Make something memorable. A great start would be @joshpuckett 's Interface Craft. 4. Get curious. It's a fucking designer's playground right now, there are so many fun tools out there to experiment with!

    950595129228K viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 20268.4x their median

    they're becoming even more same. https://t.co/hyjMk6nLSz

    30819462168K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 20263.8x their median

    software development today is building with 100s of agents. chat-era apps weren't designed for that scale. so we rebuilt Intent completely and open sourced it with a venerable dream team of talent. https://t.co/LUApvqHdwd https://t.co/tLnPbYGybS

    1381916446K viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 20263.7x their median

    skills.md file for my washing machine https://t.co/MBBxqtufvA

    152136310K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 20261.9x their median

    before AI: "we don't have enough time to build all the things we want." after AI: "we don't have enough time to build all the things we want."

    7393217K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 20261.8x their median

    new object-centric editing UI from @runwayml more on editing images by their contents rather than their pixels at: https://t.co/R7yKx0IeTn https://t.co/CjYo7v9D1V

    7353410K viewsView on X
  • Sep 2, 20261.6x their median

    we spent decades learning to use GUI applications. future generations won't. the next abstraction layer means agents handle application use, not us. https://t.co/p7D0hfXwXn

    6067110K 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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 47 interactions against 285K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 32% of 6,874 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 9.8K times each, and 0.481% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.43% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 61% carry an image or video, 26% are part of a thread and 22% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 54K interactions, about 1148x its own typical post.

What is Luke Wroblewski's engagement rate on X?
Luke Wroblewski (@LukeW) has an engagement rate of 0.017%, based on the median interactions across 23 original posts from the last 30 days against 284,687 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.017%, Luke Wroblewski sits above the 25th percentile of the 66,128 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 @LukeW have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 32% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @LukeW post?
Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.73 posts per day across the measured window.

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