ThePrimeagen engagement report
@ThePrimeagen - 377K followers on X
Measured over 35 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 994 interactions against 377K followers, an engagement rate of 0.264%. Posts are seen about 59K times each, and 1.68% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 15.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 35 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video, 11% are part of a thread and 20% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 31K interactions, about 31x its own typical post.
Measured over 35 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.264%, ThePrimeagen sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,378 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.432%.
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 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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 20, 202631x their median
Other people vs 30kg keg toss vs last guy. https://t.co/SDWkEO3PAu
- Aug 25, 202624x their median
job hunt is going great https://t.co/tUlL972Mon
- Aug 27, 202611x their median
At 250 billion DNS cache entries, one wasted byte costs 250 GB of RAM. Five Rust optimizations later: 100 TB freed, inserts 43% faster, lookups 19% faster. We didn't trade speed for space. https://t.co/mMyOYnj0mQ
- Aug 26, 20265.4x their median
Schrödinger's code 1. fable wrote it, it must be great. in fact, i had Sol, opus 5, and Grok all review it. 2. if i look at it, its horrible state changes based on observation
- Aug 28, 20263.9x their median
still rent free, btw https://t.co/Qlrw3I35kB
- Aug 23, 20263.2x their median
TIL I don't know what coding is https://t.co/TCiFWfvKbX
- Jul 29, 20263.1x their median
I can not believe this got approved https://t.co/4swgRTykLe
- Aug 24, 20262.8x their median
Hi, it's 2026 and Google calendar lets you make events in the past and invite people to them to show how dumb you are
- Aug 21, 20262.4x their median
How git started... https://t.co/M292XoM6Iu
- Aug 22, 20262.2x their median
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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 994 interactions against 377K followers, an engagement rate of 0.264%. Posts are seen about 59K times each, and 1.68% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 15.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 35 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video, 11% are part of a thread and 20% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 31K interactions, about 31x its own typical post.
- What is ThePrimeagen's engagement rate on X?
- ThePrimeagen (@ThePrimeagen) has an engagement rate of 0.264%, based on the median interactions across 35 original posts from the last 30 days against 376,630 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.264%, ThePrimeagen sits above the 50th 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 @ThePrimeagen have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @ThePrimeagen post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.1 posts per day across the measured window.