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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

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.118%
of 414K followers
Per impression
0.278%
174K views on a typical post
Reach
42.3%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
484
interactions (median)
Saved
0.009%
15 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
5.07/day
active 43% of days
Peak time
00:00 UTC
Saturday

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%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.141%
p750.671%
p902.53%
p9982.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 201,449 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,929 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.141%
75th percentile0.671%
90th percentile2.53%
99th percentile82.5%

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.

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: 00:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 00:00 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: Saturday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Saturday
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 video69% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link14% 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

    38K5.5K2.0K3.5K7.0M viewsView on X
  • 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

    18K1.2K1824603.3M viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 202617x their median

    Undrafted free-agent QB Joe Fagnano made the Ravens initial 53-man roster. https://t.co/BSahep3DQT

    7.6K4351331791.2M viewsView on X
  • 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.

    6.2K351114153407K viewsView on X
  • 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."

    5.7K478289166796K viewsView on X
  • Sep 25, 202610x their median

    A message from Coach William Inge 🧡 https://t.co/0Lxne4P0hn

    4.1K505141120451K viewsView on X
  • Sep 26, 20269.3x their median

    NEWS: Ole Miss tailback Kewan Lacy has been downgraded to doubtful for the game at Florida.

    4.2K2036777831K viewsView on X
  • 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.)

    3.5K97424150K viewsView on X
  • 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

    2.1K272319156771K viewsView on X
  • 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

    2.3K25466128488K 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.

Recurring topics

#bucs#pmslive

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.

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