Nick Timiraos engagement report
@NickTimiraos - 494K followers on X
Measured over 22 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 22, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 391 interactions against 494K followers, an engagement rate of 0.079%. Measured over 22 original posts, its engagement rate beats 67% of 20,444 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 74K times each, and 0.531% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 14.9% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 22 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video, 14% are part of a thread and 27% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.1K interactions, about 11x its own typical post.
Measured over 22 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 22, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Nick Timiraos's engagement rate beats 67% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 32% 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 0.079%, Nick Timiraos sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,956 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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% | 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 50% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 27% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 50% 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.
- 27% 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 394 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.
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
- May 3, 202211x their median
How's this for an endorsement: At the annual shareholder meeting, Warren Buffett urged people to buy Trillion Dollar Triage, my book about the economic-policy response to the Covid shock. "It's a marvelous account of what took place." Order your copy: https://t.co/oUIDNrDtKE https://t.co/rM9nSnlf0I
- Sep 15, 20266.6x their median
Central bank watchers now overwhelmingly expect not only a Fed rate increase this week, but a second hike before the end of the year https://t.co/tG3VzyNA7x
- Sep 16, 20264.0x their median
The Fed voted to raise rates by 25 bps unanimously. Most officials penciled in one more hike this year.
- Sep 11, 20263.8x their median
Investors have all but concluded the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates next week for the first time in three years. The harder question is what comes after that. Because almost no one at the central bank thinks a quarter-point increase will do much on its own to bring inflation down, a decision to raise rates next week would reflect a judgment that interest rates have been in the wrong place. If that is the case, one increase won’t fix it. “If we get a hike next week, certainly we’ll get additional ones,” said Richard Clarida, a former Fed vice chair who is now at Pimco. https://t.co/QfGuNL8YVa
- Oct 13, 20262.9x their median
Forecasters anticipate a big rise in energy prices for the September CPI that will drive up headline but they see a tamer reading for core prices. https://t.co/Ryb9c851mu
- Aug 30, 20262.7x their median
The Fed’s default had been to hold unless the data argued for a hike. After Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech, several former central bankers think he flipped the script: the data will have to give the Fed a reason not to move next month. If data and developments do not give an out, this would leave a choice between a hold that revives July’s bond-market queasiness and a hike that cuts against what the president who appointed Warsh wants, weeks before the midterms. https://t.co/CSeXCdSJWM
- Aug 10, 20262.7x their median
Most inflation forecasters see the core CPI rounding down to 0.2% in July. Given recent Fedspeak, the next few months of the core PCE inflation measure could be important in determining whether policymakers maintain their forecast of gradual disinflation with no policy change. https://t.co/BzyjmginXr
- Aug 4, 20262.5x their median
A little-used Federal Reserve backstop built for the 2020 pandemic dollar shortage is being put to a use it was never designed for: bankrolling Japan’s defense of the yen. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who has lamented Fed mission creep, wants the backstop made bigger.
- Aug 27, 20262.3x their median
The Fed is divided over whether policy is tight enough and now comes a new complication: what if Bessent's push on bond yields works? Lower long-term yields would ease financial conditions right as the Fed may not want that. Debt management has always been Treasury's job. Using policy to shape the level of long-term rates and broader credit conditions has been the Fed's. A policy shift is "a real pain for Warsh," says one former Fed adviser. “Doing it now, just before Jackson Hole, strikes me as pretty inconsiderate if not a slap in the face.” https://t.co/GnJo9RnlDJ
- Aug 20, 20262.3x their median
WATCH IN FULL: @SecScottBessent's exclusive interview with @SaraEisen on @CNBC @SquawkStreet https://t.co/sKymewxbTl
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 391 interactions against 494K followers, an engagement rate of 0.079%. Measured over 22 original posts, its engagement rate beats 67% of 20,444 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 74K times each, and 0.531% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 14.9% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 22 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video, 14% are part of a thread and 27% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.1K interactions, about 11x its own typical post.
- What is Nick Timiraos's engagement rate on X?
- Nick Timiraos (@NickTimiraos) has an engagement rate of 0.079%, based on the median interactions across 22 original posts from the last 30 days against 493,844 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.079%, Nick Timiraos sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,956 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 @NickTimiraos have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 67% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @NickTimiraos post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.63 posts per day across the measured window.