Chief Nerd engagement report
@TheChiefNerd - 926K followers on X
Measured over 54 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 908 interactions against 926K followers, an engagement rate of 0.098%. Measured over 54 original posts, its engagement rate beats 73% of 3,899 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 77K times each, and 1.18% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 8.28% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 54 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 46% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 107K interactions, about 118x its own typical post.
Measured over 54 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Chief Nerd's engagement rate beats 73% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 55% 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 0.098%, Chief Nerd sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,701 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.081% to 0.439%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 156.3% |
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 11:00 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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Aug 10, 2026118x 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.
- Aug 20, 202611x 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?
- Aug 16, 20269.8x their median
Sopranos Star Drea de Matteo Says Her Agent Dropped Her For Not Getting the COVID Jab âShe told my manager, âShe's not going to get vaccinated. There's nothing we can do for her at this point.ââ https://t.co/VhdJK7zbHc
- Aug 21, 20267.3x their median
2021 Flashback: Jen Psaki says the Biden admin was âflagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformationâ and having Fauci meet with influencers to âshare accurate informationâ https://t.co/uQwQVz7gpQ
- Aug 12, 20266.9x their median
đ¨ Fmr. CDC Director says âit was a mistake to vaccinate pregnant womenâ for COVID-19 https://t.co/rq9wRQ9qkx
- Aug 10, 20266.8x their median
SHANNON ELIZABETH: âThe breads here and the breads overseas are very different, because of the flour. We take away the one protein in the flour that digests the gluten. Why are we taking that away??â https://t.co/crkWyRRtrP
- Aug 17, 20265.1x their median
Iranian-American Comedian Max Amini Says the U.S. is Fighting a âSpeciesâ w/ âNo Sense of Moralsâ âWe are not our government. Those are not our people ⌠because the people that are fighting today against the U.S. and Israel are not the Iranians. They are this species that have no sense of morals ⌠I think Trump made it very clear the war is not on the people of Iran, the war is with the government of Iran.â
- Aug 13, 20264.7x their median
RFK JR: âSome people can just eat anything â they're called super-agers. I think President Trump is one of those ⌠[Dana White] said that he's never seen President Trump drink water. He just drinks Diet Coke, but he's got more energy than anybody I've ever met.â https://t.co/mP9cYxmqts
- Aug 13, 20264.1x their median
Q: âWhat's the desired outcome for [Fauci]?â RFK JR: âMost people who are on the right side of the spectrum want to see him criminally prosecuted.â https://t.co/BeOtnWYCyp
- Aug 17, 20263.8x their median
TRUMP: âFor you to pay a tiny little bit more for your gasoline, just remember you're doing it so that a very evil country cannot have a nuclear weapon ⌠You're at $4/gallon. It's okay. I'll never apologize. I did the right thing.â https://t.co/RzysPLpGVt
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 908 interactions against 926K followers, an engagement rate of 0.098%. Measured over 54 original posts, its engagement rate beats 73% of 3,899 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 77K times each, and 1.18% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 8.28% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 54 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 46% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 107K interactions, about 118x its own typical post.
- What is Chief Nerd's engagement rate on X?
- Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) has an engagement rate of 0.098%, based on the median interactions across 54 original posts from the last 30 days against 926,170 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.098%, Chief Nerd sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,701 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 73% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 11:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.57 posts per day across the measured window.