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TechCrunch engagement report

@TechCrunch - 11M followers on X

Measured over 276 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 11M followers
Per impression
0.139%
41K views on a typical post
Reach
0.38%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
57
interactions (median)
Saved
0.022%
9 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
9.2/day
active 63% of days
Peak time
14:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 57 interactions against 11M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 276 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,739 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 41K times each, and 0.139% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.375% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 9.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 276 posts sampled, 8% carry an image or video and 99% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.7K interactions, about 48x its own typical post.

Measured over 276 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

TechCrunch's engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 13% 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 0.001%, TechCrunch sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,378 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

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p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.432%
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Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,378 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,364 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.432%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile161.0%

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 14:00 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.

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: 14:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 14:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%50K
01:00 UTC-2%51K
02:00 UTC-3%50K
03:00 UTC-4%53K
04:00 UTC-6%43K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%48K
07:00 UTC-5%52K
08:00 UTC-4%60K
09:00 UTC-3%69K
10:00 UTC-2%72K
11:00 UTC-3%78K
12:00 UTC-2%86K
13:00 UTC-2%94K
14:00 UTC-4%97K
15:00 UTC-2%100K
16:00 UTC-3%97K
17:00 UTC-2%90K
18:00 UTC-1%84K
19:00 UTC-2%79K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-2%57K
23:00 UTC-2%51K
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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%230K
Monday0%286K
Tuesday-2%276K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%244K
Friday-3%252K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

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  • Aug 21, 202646x their median

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  • Aug 27, 202621x their median

    Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump back into the cloud business. https://t.co/v9gaZr4Kdd

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  • Aug 23, 202620x their median

    Flipkart's quick-commerce venture is delivering 1.1 million to 1.2 million orders a day, nearly triple its November volume. https://t.co/yFXW9GScXB

    885237147241K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202617x their median

    Retro, a friend-focused photo-sharing app built by former Instagram employees, has raised more than $21 million in Series A funding. https://t.co/zbpPayGKAG

    822416557475K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20267.9x their median

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  • Aug 28, 20267.8x their median

    Sweden is perhaps one of the world’s hottest tech hubs right now. And Sophia Bendz, a general partner at Cherry Ventures, stopped by Equity to break down the latest in Stockholm’s startup ecosystem. Her answer for why the country has produced so many buzzy startups? Being a founder is actually cool. https://t.co/qWRXwS8z0F

    368421917227K viewsView on X
  • Jul 24, 20266.7x their median

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    30952813678K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20266.3x their median

    Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical trials are still brutally https://t.co/PUmR7P8uGK

    30339154185K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20266.3x their median

    Jane Street has installed Etched's first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the startup says. https://t.co/BagoasWIv8

    3191716685K 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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 57 interactions against 11M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 276 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,739 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 41K times each, and 0.139% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.375% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 9.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 276 posts sampled, 8% carry an image or video and 99% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.7K interactions, about 48x its own typical post.

What is TechCrunch's engagement rate on X?
TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 276 original posts from the last 30 days against 10,933,125 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, TechCrunch sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,378 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 @TechCrunch have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @TechCrunch post?
Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 9.2 posts per day across the measured window.

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