Pete Thamel engagement report
@PeteThamel - 404K followers on X
Measured over 27 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 561 interactions against 404K followers, an engagement rate of 0.139%. Measured over 27 original posts, its engagement rate beats 59% of 3,829 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 246K times each, and 0.228% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 60.9% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 27 posts sampled, 78% carry an image or video, 33% are part of a thread and 7% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 33x its own typical post.
Measured over 27 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tag: #bucs.
Compared with accounts its own size
Pete Thamel's engagement rate beats 59% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 12% 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 0.139%, Pete Thamel sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,071 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.435%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 158.3% |
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 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 71K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 80K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 88K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 103K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 100K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 86K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 81K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 234K |
| Monday | 0% | 294K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 288K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 247K |
| Friday | -3% | 256K |
| Saturday | +3% | 230K |
Best tweets
- Aug 30, 202633x 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, 202613x their median
Undrafted free-agent QB Joe Fagnano made the Ravens initial 53-man roster. https://t.co/BSahep3DQT
- Aug 27, 20264.9x 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
- Aug 26, 20264.0x their median
NEWS: Thomas Castellanos has committed to Texas Tech, he tells ESPN. He's a former quarterback at Florida State, BC and UCF. He has 6,449 career passing yards and 48 passing touchdowns. He's also rushed for 24 touchdowns. https://t.co/T4vVvkuTXY
- Aug 29, 20263.1x their median
Sources: Arizona State has named Cutter Boley the school’s starting quarterback, and the Kentucky transfer will debut for ASU against Morgan State on Sept. 5. (ASU travels to No. 8 Texas A&M the next week). He won a battle with veteran Mikey Keene and freshman Jake Fette. https://t.co/mzHfPIyqrQ
- Aug 27, 20262.9x their median
Sources: East Carolina is set to start veteran transfer Mitch Griffis, and he’ll debut for ECU at No. 13 Alabama in the opener. Miami transfer Emory Williams will also play for ECU against Alabama. https://t.co/jGzV5trAJs
- Aug 29, 20262.4x their median
Sources: TCU will be without leading returning receiver Jordan Dwyer against North Carolina in Ireland today. He made the trip, but has been battling a foot injury and will not play. He caught 54 balls for 730 yards last year and 7 TD passes. https://t.co/8aowNV61hw
- Aug 28, 20261.7x their median
Sources: Charlotte has named veteran transfer Cole Gonzales the starting quarterback. He was at Pitt in 2025, arriving via Oklahoma and Western Carolina. He beat out UNC transfer Conner Harrell and Duke transfer Grayson Loftis. https://t.co/hcEeACyVag
- Aug 28, 20261.6x their median
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry to ESPN on state court ruling: “I’ve been saying for a year that college sports need to be fixed. President Trump and Saban were right. The rules keep changing, and at this point, no one even knows what the actual rules are. The U.S. Senate needs to step up and fix this. The US Senate needs to quit politicking and start working!”
- Aug 29, 20261.6x their median
NEWS: Hawaii will be without leading receiver Pofele Ashlock (knee) against Stanford today, coach Timmy Chang told ESPN. Ashlock earned second-team All-Mountain West last year and led the team with 76 receptions. He had 827 yards, 8 touchdowns and 10 catches of moe than 20 yards. https://t.co/CdbdZsx31u
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 561 interactions against 404K followers, an engagement rate of 0.139%. Measured over 27 original posts, its engagement rate beats 59% of 3,829 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 246K times each, and 0.228% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 60.9% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 27 posts sampled, 78% carry an image or video, 33% are part of a thread and 7% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 33x its own typical post.
- What is Pete Thamel's engagement rate on X?
- Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) has an engagement rate of 0.139%, based on the median interactions across 27 original posts from the last 30 days against 403,862 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.139%, Pete Thamel sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,071 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 59% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 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 13:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.17 posts per day across the measured window.