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Austin Kleon engagement report

@austinkleon - 145K followers on X

Measured over 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on September 28, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.162%
of 145K followers
Per impression
0.094%
238K views on a typical post
Reach
173.1%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
223
interactions (median)
Saved
0.027%
65 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.57/day
active 20% of days
Peak time
11:00 UTC
Tuesday

Early reading. We have captured 1 original post for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.

A typical post picks up 223 interactions against 145K followers, an engagement rate of 0.162%. Posts are seen about 238K times each, and 0.094% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 163.8% 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 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 208K interactions, about 931x its own typical post. Only 1 original post have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

Measured over 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on September 28, 2026.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.162%, Austin Kleon sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,991 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.68%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.68%
p902.56%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,991 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,893 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 percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.68%
90th percentile2.56%
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 11:00 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.

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: 11:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 11:00 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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Tuesday
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 video0% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link100% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 0% 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.
  • 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
  • Its average post runs 117 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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

  • May 25, 2026931x their median

    Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas https://t.co/6i9MWs6LJl

    175K28K1.4K3.9K23M viewsView on X
  • Jun 21, 202614x their median

    The Swedes have found Buc-ee’s https://t.co/0zYNN8DWOi

    2.9K177165145K viewsView on X
  • Jul 20, 202613x their median

    Point Break, restored in 4K, is being re-released in theaters this summer for its 35th anniversary. https://t.co/Oeb5A1ckRa

    2.4K254772281.3M viewsView on X
  • Jul 21, 20264.9x their median

    When moviegoers went to see “The Odyssey” this weekend, they probably weren’t expecting to see a trailer for the upcoming horror movie “Other Mommy” that scared the living daylights out of them. https://t.co/zn4V31J29R

    938644152339K viewsView on X
  • Jun 7, 20261.7x their median

    Been reading Moby Dick and each time I do (I've never managed to finish) I find myself trying to figure out was Melville doing. Was he going through a mental break, or was he laughing himself to sleep each night. I can't figure out if it's the product of a psychic break, or a waggish imp drunk on grog.

    317852569K viewsView on X
  • Jul 15, 2026

    We need more lavish, big-screen entertainments, made with care. But we still have a right to ask for more than THE ODYSSEY delivers. https://t.co/H5JG5D1cv8

    20624272053K viewsView on X
  • Feb 20, 2026

    New book coming in June! https://t.co/frtNyNbiNs

    1862323715K viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 2026

    Americans can’t write funny novels. After 250 years, they still don't have a sense of humour. https://t.co/Zw3pQSvpD3

    33684100238K viewsView on X
  • Jun 21, 2026

    An incontrovertible testament to the enduring charms of Lipps Inc.'s ingenious 1980 hit "Funkytown": just now, pretty much everyone in the supermarket was subtly bopping to it.

    501818.1K viewsView on X
  • Jun 2, 2026

    My new book is out today!! https://t.co/CEVi8vSKvY

    425642.1K 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 223 interactions against 145K followers, an engagement rate of 0.162%. Posts are seen about 238K times each, and 0.094% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 163.8% 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 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 208K interactions, about 931x its own typical post. Only 1 original post have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

What is Austin Kleon's engagement rate on X?
Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) has an engagement rate of 0.162%, based on the median interactions across 1 original posts from the last 30 days against 145,177 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.162%, Austin Kleon sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,991 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 @austinkleon have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @austinkleon post?
Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.57 posts per day across the measured window.

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