SURFER engagement report
@Surfer - 261K followers on X
Measured over 80 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 24, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 21 interactions against 261K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 80 original posts, its engagement rate beats 21% of 20,183 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 3.4K times each, and 0.611% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.32% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 80 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 99 interactions, about 4.7x its own typical post.
Measured over 80 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 24, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
SURFER's engagement rate beats 21% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 31% 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 0.008%, SURFER sits above the 10th percentile of the 202,175 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.142% |
| 75th percentile | 0.672% |
| 90th percentile | 2.54% |
| 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 17:00 UTC, and Monday 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 | 3% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 3% 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.
- 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 163 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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
- Sep 3, 20264.7x their median
In 1906, Thomas Edison’s team filmed Waikiki surfers at Canoes, unintentionally launching more than a century of surf movies and clips to follow. https://t.co/vx0gOSP5AX
- Aug 31, 20263.3x their median
The recently released tome, "Nalu," pays homage to the Hawaiians and offers a reflection on surfing’s roots vis-à-vis today. https://t.co/uIA1q869yE
- Sep 21, 20263.0x their median
Ben Gravy scores a ferry wake so flawless it looks more like Kelly Slater’s wave pool than open water. https://t.co/O7GNsPmBus
- Sep 20, 20262.5x their median
From a fatal car crash he narrowly avoided to a live shark attack and the loss of three brothers, Mick Fanning reveals what it took to keep going. https://t.co/D9BjqDv0Me
- Sep 4, 20262.5x their median
The hurricane will stay well offshore, but its swell could make for some of the biggest surf of the summer, with the best waves focused on south-facing beaches. https://t.co/9YHcIqFSOG
- Sep 2, 20262.4x their median
Santa Cruz OG Ken "Skindog" Collins on why the most people miss the point when they complain about not getting waves. If you want to up your wave count, you need to hear this. Read more here: https://t.co/9wATCYCFUi https://t.co/fqAJtCzu77
- Sep 7, 20262.3x their median
Hurricane Marie 2.0 sends colossal surf straight into Long Beach, overrunning emergency sand berms and pushing seawater deep into coastal neighborhoods. https://t.co/D6zJubC7rm
- Sep 20, 20262.1x their median
California’s highest tides of the year will hit as El Niño lifts sea levels and swell pounds the coast. Here are the key dates and why they matter. https://t.co/PHsHzUzOGr
- Sep 19, 20262.1x their median
A 63-year-old swimmer is killed off Sorrento Beach and WA responds with its first catch-and-kill order for a great white in about a decade, igniting debate. https://t.co/1ykisHQw0J
- Sep 1, 20262.1x their median
Eight surfers, one perfect window: We're officially on stand-by for what could be one of the best barrel showdowns of the year. https://t.co/fGvzQulIA4
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 21 interactions against 261K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 80 original posts, its engagement rate beats 21% of 20,183 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 3.4K times each, and 0.611% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.32% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 80 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 99 interactions, about 4.7x its own typical post.
- What is SURFER's engagement rate on X?
- SURFER (@Surfer) has an engagement rate of 0.008%, based on the median interactions across 80 original posts from the last 30 days against 260,542 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.008%, SURFER sits above the 10th percentile of the 202,175 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 @Surfer have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 21% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size 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 @Surfer post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.67 posts per day across the measured window.