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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.142% |
| 75th percentile | 0.672% |
| 90th percentile | 2.54% |
| 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 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.
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 | 50% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% 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
- Jun 12, 202687x their median
Capitalism is better than socialism because one man gets to be a trillionaire instead of everyone having healthcare
- May 14, 202613x their median
Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app!
- Jun 11, 202610x their median
Opinion: SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here’s how to properly hate him https://t.co/qAQVdquwCP
- Jul 3, 202613x their median
X has quietly launched its complete rewrite of X Web, starting with Logged-Out pages Built with Tanstack Router and Tailwind, which brings in SSR Streaming, Vite, Rolldown, ES Modules, etc all the modern web practices Congrats to the @Engineering Web team for pulling this off! https://t.co/rSPRora156
- Jun 16, 202611x their median
Feels like we're all just building "things for building other things" and not a lot of "things" anymore.
- 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
- May 5, 20265.3x their median
Claude Code not supporting `.agents/` for skills and stuff is annoyingly hostile 🫠
- 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
- 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
- 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!
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.