Chief Nerd engagement report
@TheChiefNerd - 929K followers on X
Measured over 29 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 20, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 465 interactions against 929K followers, an engagement rate of 0.05%. Measured over 29 original posts, its engagement rate beats 59% of 20,444 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 53K times each, and 0.879% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.69% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 29 posts sampled, 97% carry an image or video and 28% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 106K interactions, about 229x its own typical post.
Measured over 29 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 20, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Chief Nerd's engagement rate beats 59% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 44% 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 0.05%, Chief Nerd sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,956 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 Sunday 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 | 97% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 97% 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.
- 0% 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 179 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
- Aug 10, 2026229x their median
My wife is a nurse. She was pregnant during the pandemic. Her best friend is also nurse and she too was pregnant during the pandemic. She and her husband had been trying for a long time and this was their first. They were both well into their pregnancies when the hospital that they work for started mandating full time employees get vaccinated. The hospital was pushing the vaccine so hard and the rhetoric was so crazy that they were both worried if it would even deliver their babies if they were not vaccinated. That's how scared they made people. My wife and I decided immediately that there was no chance she was getting vaccinated while carrying our baby. She was only a couple months from giving birth so she tried to stall. She filed for an exemption, it was denied. She used whatever PTO she had. Then she quit full time and went part time. She made it through and gave birth to our beautiful, healthy, love of my life baby boy, vaccine free. My wife's friend was just a couple months away from giving birth when she succumbed to the pressure to get vaccinated. She and her husband had already set up their daughter's room. They named her Penelope. She was full term when she started having stomach pains. She thought she was in labor so she went to the hospital. The doctor told her that her baby was no longer alive. They induced labor and she delivered a dead little girl. Afterwards the doctor told her that a blood clot caused the death of her baby. When my wife's friend sees our son she still gets emotional because her daughter would have been the same age as him. It breaks our hearts to see her still so heartbroken. What happened during the pandemic was just pure evil.
- Sep 10, 2026140x their median
AARON RODGERS: “I'm on the phone with the head doctor at the NFL … I asked him, ‘If you get the vax can you contract or spread the disease?’ He said, ‘No.’ I said, ‘Well, tell me this then … Five scouts are out with COVID — all fully vaxxed. How'd that happen?’ He called me a conspiracy theorist.”
- Oct 16, 202640x their median
The scale of this feat is mind-bending 🤯 https://t.co/fu6Q6t2nVv
- Sep 10, 202637x their median
The Goo Goo Dolls’ John Rzeznik Says He Doesn’t Lecture Fans on Politics “I’ve got fans from every walk of life, every political stripe … We’ve got one thing in common, and that’s we’re all here to see a show. And I'm not going to lecture you people about anything.” 👏 https://t.co/EBDBTDviFf
- Aug 20, 202631x their median
Today on X, my entire feed is DC lawmakers from both parties posting their fake outrage over the national debt. How many times did they vote to increase the debt ceiling, expand government, and/or vote against cuts?
- Oct 11, 202623x their median
This is adorable 🥰 https://t.co/0evIRADnDG
- Aug 16, 202619x their median
Sopranos Star Drea de Matteo Says Her Agent Dropped Her For Not Getting the COVID Jab “She told my manager, ‘She's not going to get vaccinated. There's nothing we can do for her at this point.’” https://t.co/VhdJK7zbHc
- Oct 8, 202618x their median
Hopefully this clears up the latest outrage👇 “Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles … You want to see problems? … WE’RE NOT GONNA LET THAT HAPPEN. We protect our cities. We protect our country.” https://t.co/XDeqxmZ0yh
- Oct 16, 202616x their median
Let's make @therealroseanne the next Press Secretary. https://t.co/7bYgnQiZRY
- Aug 21, 202614x their median
2021 Flashback: Jen Psaki says the Biden admin was “flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation” and having Fauci meet with influencers to “share accurate information” https://t.co/uQwQVz7gpQ
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 465 interactions against 929K followers, an engagement rate of 0.05%. Measured over 29 original posts, its engagement rate beats 59% of 20,444 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 53K times each, and 0.879% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.69% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 29 posts sampled, 97% carry an image or video and 28% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 106K interactions, about 229x its own typical post.
- What is Chief Nerd's engagement rate on X?
- Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) has an engagement rate of 0.05%, based on the median interactions across 29 original posts from the last 30 days against 928,900 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.05%, Chief Nerd sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,956 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 @TheChiefNerd have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 59% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @TheChiefNerd post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.87 posts per day across the measured window.