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Adam Wathan engagement report

@adamwathan - 304K followers on X

Measured over 8 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 19, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.101%
of 304K followers
Per impression
0.928%
33K views on a typical post
Reach
10.8%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
304
interactions (median)
Saved
0.079%
26 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.57/day
active 30% of days
Peak time
21:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 304 interactions against 304K followers, an engagement rate of 0.101%. Measured over 8 original posts, its engagement rate beats 60% of 19,932 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 33K times each, and 0.928% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 10.8% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 8 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 13% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 78K interactions, about 87x its own typical post.

Measured over 8 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 19, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Adam Wathan's engagement rate beats 60% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 41% 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 0.101%, Adam Wathan sits above the 25th percentile of the 201,787 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.142%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.142%
p750.672%
p902.54%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 201,787 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,901 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.142%
75th percentile0.672%
90th percentile2.54%
99th percentile82.4%

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 21:00 UTC, and Thursday 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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 21:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 21:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video50% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link0% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 50% 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 189 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

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

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  • Jun 11, 202610x their median

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    2.0K2405.9K1.3K4.7M viewsView on X
  • Jul 3, 202613x their median

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    3.6K21414585853K viewsView on X
  • Jun 16, 202611x their median

    Feels like we're all just building "things for building other things" and not a lot of "things" anymore.

    3.0K17520578254K viewsView on X
  • Oct 15, 202610x their median

    Wake up babe the Figma Chrome extension can now capture your website code and bring into Figma as a code layer Live from Config India https://t.co/im2awSct2o

    2.7K177931155.7M viewsView on X
  • May 5, 20265.3x their median

    Claude Code not supporting `.agents/` for skills and stuff is annoyingly hostile 🫠

    2.4K6714127194K viewsView on X
  • May 12, 20262.3x their median

    ✨ Shipped Tailwind CSS v4.3! 📜 New scrollbar utilities 🔍 New zoom utilities ⇥ New tab-size utilities ...plus a bunch of other little stuff 🎁 https://t.co/H63m8Z8uP1

    1.9K13139888K viewsView on X
  • Jul 23, 20265.4x their median

    Had a rough go with this little girl for the first couple of months so really grateful that 5 months in she's finally looking like the happy little chunkster she should be ❤️ https://t.co/4oFBOhrJJX

    1.6K253050K viewsView on X
  • Jul 4, 20253.0x their median

    Finally launched a sponsorship program for Tailwind CSS, with a bunch of cool perks ✨ 💬 Private Discord community to connect with the team 🤖 Cursor/Claude rules for generating better Tailwind output 🎨 Beautiful custom VS Code themes 🔍 Raycast extension with lots of little productivity features 📚 Early documentation for pre-release builds 🫣 Behind-the-scenes source code + Figma files for all the little demos we build for social media + YouTube We're calling it Tailwind Insiders 🚀 Link is in the reply!

    1.3K816823602K viewsView on X

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 304 interactions against 304K followers, an engagement rate of 0.101%. Measured over 8 original posts, its engagement rate beats 60% of 19,932 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 33K times each, and 0.928% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 10.8% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 8 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 13% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 78K interactions, about 87x its own typical post.

What is Adam Wathan's engagement rate on X?
Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) has an engagement rate of 0.101%, based on the median interactions across 8 original posts from the last 30 days against 303,575 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.101%, Adam Wathan sits above the 25th percentile of the 201,787 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 @adamwathan have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 60% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 @adamwathan post?
Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.57 posts per day across the measured window.

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