Rick Wilson engagement report
@TheRickWilson - 1.6M followers on X
Measured over 96 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.9K interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.114%. Measured over 96 original posts, its engagement rate beats 86% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 68K times each, and 2.71% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.19% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 15.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 96 posts sampled, 54% carry an image or video, 6% are part of a thread and 26% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 44K interactions, about 24x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #ettd, #b, #butthurtbarbie.
Measured over 96 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #ettd, #b, #butthurtbarbie.
Compared with accounts its own size
Rick Wilson's engagement rate beats 86% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 84% 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 0.114%, Rick Wilson 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 13:00 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 17, 202624x their median
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Halloween reportedly being promoted as "De-Flock America" night against Flock surveillance cameras. https://t.co/RefekC0EQS
- Aug 19, 202611x their median
Ok, so the biggest leaker of the flood of information on Natalie Harp is, wait for it .... Karoline Leavitt. https://t.co/0xWNhAtkb8
- Aug 19, 20269.6x their median
A possible romantic relationship between a president and one of his aides isn’t something the public needs to know about. by Ken Starr and Newt Gingrich
- Aug 19, 20268.5x their median
A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine has succeeded in a Phase 3 trial for melanoma. It uses the same fundamental mRNA platform as the COVID vaccines and could open an entirely new chapter in cancer treatment. This is why we fund mRNA technology research.
- Aug 20, 20268.3x their median
Only a few hours after the diaper-wearing US president praises Kim Jung Un, North Korean ballistic missiles murder 6 people in Kyiv. Trump is Putin's dog. https://t.co/Zbt8fMKztt
- Aug 18, 20267.9x their median
It's Way Past Time for White House Reporters to Stand Up for Their Colleagues When Trump Attacks https://t.co/iZTwJWE0v9
- Aug 20, 20266.6x their median
Today, Romania destroyed a naval drone carrying explosives near its Neptun Deep platform in the Black Sea. An escalating campaign of threats is underway, unsettling our citizens and seeking to divide our Union. This is hybrid warfare. The founding mission of our Union is to preserve peace. Today, that also means having the capacity to deter provocation and aggression. Our Readiness 2030 agenda is mobilising up to EUR 800 billion. With the European Drone Defence Initiative and the Eastern Flank Watch, we are scaling up production in Europe to deliver capabilities Member States need. So we can respond to emerging threats with speed, unity and resolve.
- Aug 19, 20265.9x their median
Trump shows off his new White House granite driveway as your electricity and water bills keep going up https://t.co/5cQC3NSZtD
- Aug 30, 20265.8x their median
Google Maps has now capitulated to Donald Trump and changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. Apple Maps still uses the correct name. https://t.co/3nDcPHuOsU
- Aug 19, 20265.5x their median
Byron Donalds: "The reason why so many families have been struggling is because of Democrat policy" (Republicans have had total control of the federal government for nearly two years, and have had total control of Florida for even longer) https://t.co/b1KsXuc822
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.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 1.9K interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.114%. Measured over 96 original posts, its engagement rate beats 86% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 68K times each, and 2.71% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.19% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 15.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 96 posts sampled, 54% carry an image or video, 6% are part of a thread and 26% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 44K interactions, about 24x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #ettd, #b, #butthurtbarbie.
- What is Rick Wilson's engagement rate on X?
- Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) has an engagement rate of 0.114%, based on the median interactions across 96 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,632,920 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.114%, Rick Wilson 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 @TheRickWilson have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 86% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts), which puts it in the top 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 @TheRickWilson post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 15.7 posts per day across the measured window.