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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.432% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 161.0% |
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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 22, 202648x their median
Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly spent years building an AI-driven startup that keeps living human skin tissue alive for weeks outside the body to discover new skincare https://t.co/w5SWXWS6bk
- Aug 21, 202646x their median
The lawsuit alleges that Oura rings are unable to measure any of the physiological signals needed to assess sleep quality or determine sleep stages. https://t.co/JiIB1K4npV
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Aug 28, 20267.9x their median
Brave's browser begins testing an email alias feature that lets you keep your main email info private. https://t.co/LS3WDkZPju
- 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
- Jul 24, 20266.7x their median
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- 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
- 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
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.