Tim Draper engagement report
@TimDraper - 553K followers on X
Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 19, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 62 interactions against 553K followers, an engagement rate of 0.011%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 35% 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 18K times each, and 0.353% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.18% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 32% carry an image or video, 16% are part of a thread and 37% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.4K interactions, about 55x its own typical post.
Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 19, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Tim Draper's engagement rate beats 35% 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 24% 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 0.011%, Tim Draper sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,374 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
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 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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 | 32% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 37% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 32% 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.
- 37% 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 873 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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
- Sep 9, 202655x their median
My amazing dad, Bill Draper died yesterday. He was the best! We were so lucky to have him with us as long as we did. I know he touched many of your lives.
- Sep 10, 202640x their median
My dad gave me a MILLION Confederate dollar bill when I was a kid. When I asked him what I could do with it, he said, "Nothing." That's what's coming for the US dollar. First, a few retailers will say, "we accept Bitcoin” and then a few will say, "we ONLY accept Bitcoin." The moment that happens, people will panic and run to the bank. They’ll pull their dollars out and convert to Bitcoin. Please own some Bitcoin, so you don’t panic when people don’t accept your dollars. This is why I'm telling everyone the same three things right now: 1. Buy enough Bitcoin to keep your family alive for 6 months. 2. If you run a company, hold enough Bitcoin to pay your employees for 4 weeks. 3. If you manage a government treasury, put some percentage in Bitcoin. Full conversation with Coinage is linked below. 👇
- Jul 8, 202617x their median
My partner Steve Jurvetson spent his nights and weekends launching rockets. Totally obsessed. So I told him, "Find us the best rocket company." Three weeks later he came back. "The best rocket company is Elon's." My first reaction: "Isn't he supposed to be running Tesla?" We already had a big investment in Tesla, but we heard him out. In that meeting, you could feel it. His mission in life was to make humanity multi-planetary. Tesla was a means to an end. So we became the first money in after Elon's own $100 million and an investment from Founders Fund. Just before we invested, the first few rockets had exploded on the launch pad.. but then a Falcon 1 lifted off and worked. It launched one small satellite for Malaysia, and then it was retired. Falcon 9 was the true workhorse, which good customers came for later over time. Eventually there were contracts everywhere, and Elon Musk began his journey to make us multiplanetary. A mission like "we're going to Mars" attracts the best engineers in the world. People take a new job to solve a problem they'll tell their grandkids about. When Kennedy said we choose to go to the moon, the technologies that came out of that effort changed everything on Earth. Same thing is happening now. Starlink exists because Elon Musk is building to get us to Mars. If the mission is grand enough, innovations that happen along the way will enhance and may even redefine the business. Thanks to Bonnie Blockchain for having me on!
- Aug 11, 202623x their median
First they’ll say, “We accept Bitcoin.” Then they’ll say, “We only accept Bitcoin.” Then there will be a run on the banks. Then the world as we know it will fundamentally change forever as Bitcoin goes infinite against the US dollar. https://t.co/Gl75HihujT
- Aug 14, 202613x their median
Hey all, We are selling our place in San Francisco. Great location, great views, beautiful place, but we weren’t using it. Check it out. Listing at $5.2 million. https://t.co/YazPo8yXaZ
- Jul 30, 20269.5x their median
After the automobile, people still rode horses for a while. After the locomotive, people still carried coal in wheelbarrows. After the smart phone, people still used land lines But eventually, the best technology became ubiquitous. Same with Bitcoin and the US dollar. We’re watching the same story unfold today with Bitcoin and the US Dollar. Full thoughts with @Benzinga in the comments.
- Jul 14, 20263.7x their median
I loved Brian Armstrong from the moment he walked into my office, but I had already invested in CoinLab, so I didn’t invest at first. But my son, Adam did. I decided Coinbase would have too long a road to success, so I passed. Ouch. I thought retail crypto was too far away, but my son Adam disagreed and wrote Brian his first check. I followed suit shortly after and got in on the next round. Coinbase has become a household name and dominates the world of cryptocurrency. Coinbase now has over 120 million customers who use Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for commerce, finance, trading, and value storage. The return from Coinbase alone nearly doubled our entire Draper Associates Fund V. Brian has been an unwavering north star in Bitcoin and crypto. His innovation and creativity know no bounds. The lesson for founders: If the first VC says no... try asking one of their sons or daughters... some call mine the new VC Scions.
- Aug 27, 20267.9x their median
Most VCs prefer serial entrepreneurs. I don't. I back first-time entrepreneurs more than most. Yes, it's riskier, but the returns can be much bigger. Second-time entrepreneurs are usually better operationally. They make sure they raise the RIGHT amount of money. They're ruthless about hiring. But first-time entrepreneurs? They tend to raise too much money. They feel like they have to hire everybody. Then they hit the wall and wonder why the next round didn't come as easily. Second-time entrepreneurs who've hit the wall know to keep it thin until product-market fit. Grow organically. Don't rely on the venture capital marketplace because it comes and goes. I like first-time entrepreneurs making this their career. This might be the one they were meant to be. I like second-time entrepreneurs going after something entirely different. Not recreating their old business. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison… first-time entrepreneurs.
- Sep 30, 20266.1x their median
Dad’s @nytimes obituary. He also scored a touchdown for dear old Yale, and created the Human Development Index for @UNDP which didn’t make it in. https://t.co/77Pc5OuqBj
- Jul 8, 20262.5x their median
Last year, we proved what was possible. Today, we're accelerating what comes next. Venus Aerospace has closed a $91M Series B led by @MercuryFund, with participation from @LockheedMartin Ventures, to transform our flight-proven RDRE into deployable propulsion systems for defense and space. The next chapter starts now. Read more: https://t.co/TgG0PBHdAi
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 62 interactions against 553K followers, an engagement rate of 0.011%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 35% 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 18K times each, and 0.353% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.18% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 32% carry an image or video, 16% are part of a thread and 37% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.4K interactions, about 55x its own typical post.
- What is Tim Draper's engagement rate on X?
- Tim Draper (@TimDraper) has an engagement rate of 0.011%, based on the median interactions across 19 original posts from the last 30 days against 552,743 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.011%, Tim Draper sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,374 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 @TimDraper have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 35% 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 @TimDraper post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.07 posts per day across the measured window.