Pete Thamel engagement report
@PeteThamel - 414K followers on X
Measured over 65 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 484 interactions against 414K followers, an engagement rate of 0.118%. Measured over 65 original posts, its engagement rate beats 74% of 19,932 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 174K times each, and 0.278% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 42.0% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 65 posts sampled, 69% carry an image or video, 18% are part of a thread and 14% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 49K interactions, about 101x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #bucs, #pmslive.
Measured over 65 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 27, 2026. Recurring tags: #bucs, #pmslive.
Compared with accounts its own size
Pete Thamel's engagement rate beats 74% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 20% 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 0.118%, Pete Thamel sits above the 25th percentile of the 201,449 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.141%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.141% |
| 75th percentile | 0.671% |
| 90th percentile | 2.53% |
| 99th percentile | 82.5% |
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 00:00 UTC, and Saturday 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 | 69% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 14% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 69% 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.
- 14% 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 217 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
- Sep 10, 2026101x their median
Barry Melrose, the former NHL player and coach who was a beloved, longtime hockey analyst for ESPN, died Wednesday, his wife, Cindy, told ESPN's Steve Levy. He was 70. https://t.co/68PGbK6rkI
- Aug 30, 202640x their median
Sources: The #Bucs are moving forward with UDFA QB Jalon Daniels as their backup QB to Baker Mayfield, as he’s impressed throughout camp. A true find and a very cool story. https://t.co/bi1KYzmC9G
- Aug 30, 202617x their median
Undrafted free-agent QB Joe Fagnano made the Ravens initial 53-man roster. https://t.co/BSahep3DQT
- Sep 27, 202614x their median
NEWS: Shane Beamer has announced that star EDGE Dylan Stewart has been suspended indefinitely. He punched an Alabama player and was seen talking back to coaches on the sideline at Alabama.
- Sep 8, 202614x their median
From the SEC's filing. It quotes Lane Kiffin's halftime statements to ABC: “Imagine if we had pro players.” And it says that, postgame comments and silence from President Wade Rousse: "confirm the lack of institutional control over the athletics program at LSU that is required by......the SEC Constitution."
- Sep 25, 202610x their median
A message from Coach William Inge 🧡 https://t.co/0Lxne4P0hn
- Sep 26, 20269.3x their median
NEWS: Ole Miss tailback Kewan Lacy has been downgraded to doubtful for the game at Florida.
- Sep 26, 20267.6x their median
Someone check on @tyschmit. Just an epic last-second TD by Iowa. They beat Michigan in the Big House on reverse buzzer karma. Iowa wins 20-19. (And it is upheld by review.)
- Sep 9, 20265.9x their median
LSU president Wade Rousse sent a letter today to SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey, obtained by ESPN by FOIA. He says the issue of adding NFL players is “moot.” LSU will also “not challenge, disrupt or seek to cancel or postpone” the special SEC Presidents/Chancellors call tomorrow. https://t.co/Xrr1X6Wpi4
- Aug 27, 20265.6x their median
Sources: Kansas has named Isaiah Marshall the school’s starting quarterback. He’s a redshirt sophomore dual-threat quarterback who has played in nine games, completed all 3 of his passes and rushed for 160 yards on 15 carries. https://t.co/PaXKgMlPsl
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.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 484 interactions against 414K followers, an engagement rate of 0.118%. Measured over 65 original posts, its engagement rate beats 74% of 19,932 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 174K times each, and 0.278% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 42.0% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 65 posts sampled, 69% carry an image or video, 18% are part of a thread and 14% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 49K interactions, about 101x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #bucs, #pmslive.
- What is Pete Thamel's engagement rate on X?
- Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) has an engagement rate of 0.118%, based on the median interactions across 65 original posts from the last 30 days against 414,223 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.118%, Pete Thamel sits above the 25th percentile of the 201,449 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 @PeteThamel have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 74% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 @PeteThamel post?
- Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 5.07 posts per day across the measured window.