Athenaeum Book Club engagement report
@athenaeumbc - 349K followers on X
Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 2, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 808 interactions against 349K followers, an engagement rate of 0.231%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 67% of 4,310 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 46K times each, and 1.74% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 13.3% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video, 67% are part of a thread and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 23x its own typical post.
Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 2, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Athenaeum Book Club's engagement rate beats 67% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,310 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 59% 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 0.231%, Athenaeum Book Club sits above the 50th percentile of the 41,681 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.083% to 0.447%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.013% |
| 50th percentile | 0.083% |
| 75th percentile | 0.447% |
| 90th percentile | 2.07% |
| 99th percentile | 143.4% |
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 12:00 UTC, and Monday 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% | 58K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 59K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 58K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 62K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 50K |
| 05:00 UTC | -5% | 48K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 56K |
| 07:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 70K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 81K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 83K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 91K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 109K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 112K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 116K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 113K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 105K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 86K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 76K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 66K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 59K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 255K |
| Monday | +1% | 328K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 353K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 317K |
| Thursday | -2% | 269K |
| Friday | -3% | 276K |
| Saturday | +3% | 249K |
Best tweets
- Aug 7, 202623x their median
These books will give you a better education than almost any school curriculum in the West today. In our academic system, you can go from Pre-K to PhD without reading a word of Homer, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Augustine, Dante, or Milton. We set up the Athenaeum Book Club to fight back. If schools and universities won't teach the Great Books, we must form our own reading circles. These are some of the texts we've read together, or will cover soon. Join our reading group to study the great works in dialogue with others. We are just starting The Brothers Karamazov. If you've been on the fence about joining our group, now's the time. You do NOT want to miss this. We're reading Brothers K. over the next 6 weeks. The next discussion is on August 18th. Take out a paid subscription if you'd like to support us and join the discussions directly — it makes a huge difference to the time and resources we can dedicate. You'll get: - Live book club discussions (biweekly) - Access to our incredible community chat - Essays to guide you through the Great Books - All past recordings, essays, and podcasts - Ability to vote on what we read next https://t.co/efQaicNvay See you inside!
- Aug 20, 202613x their median
"The mystery of human existence lies not in staying alive, but in finding something to live for." — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
- Aug 27, 20262.9x their median
Have you ever read a BOOK by an author that was so good it made you want to read everything else they've written? https://t.co/UAjFbnmmby
- Aug 24, 20262.8x their median
You do not need self-help books. You need to read immortal stories. Read them with us: https://t.co/JVEWbm4p0T https://t.co/crGxwKWAVE
- Aug 9, 20262.7x their median
Today is National Book Lovers Day! What are you reading? https://t.co/u7A9ckKpOb
- Aug 24, 20262.4x their median
There’s something I love about the fact that the Western canon is just sitting there waiting for anyone who wants it. You can walk into a used bookstore with twenty bucks and walk out carrying a conversation that started thousands of years ago. https://t.co/dBLQEMSmLk
- Aug 13, 20262.0x their median
I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to the great books. https://t.co/b5bbrjzg0X
- Aug 24, 20261.7x their median
I think people hear “Great Books” and imagine a bunch of dusty old guys writing about things nobody cares about anymore. Then you actually read them and it’s war, love, jealousy, betrayal, ambition, friendship, politics, God, death, revenge. Basically everything people still obsess over.
- Aug 19, 2026
You don't need a book club or a Great Books program to start reading the great books. https://t.co/nVLSmbALuA
- Sep 1, 2026
If schools and universities won't teach the great books of the West, we must form our own reading groups. We just finished our 14th book at Athenaeum!! TIME TO VOTE. What should we read next? 1. Politics — Aristotle 2. On Duties — Cicero 3. City of God — Augustine 4. Beowulf 5. Purgatorio — Dante 6. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 7. Macbeth — Shakespeare 8. Pride and Prejudice — Austen 9. Moby-Dick — Melville Cast your vote below 👇
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 808 interactions against 349K followers, an engagement rate of 0.231%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 67% of 4,310 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 46K times each, and 1.74% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 13.3% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video, 67% are part of a thread and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 23x its own typical post.
- What is Athenaeum Book Club's engagement rate on X?
- Athenaeum Book Club (@athenaeumbc) has an engagement rate of 0.231%, based on the median interactions across 18 original posts from the last 30 days against 349,414 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.231%, Athenaeum Book Club sits above the 50th percentile of the 41,681 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 @athenaeumbc have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 67% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,310 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 @athenaeumbc post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.77 posts per day across the measured window.