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Dave Lee engagement report

@davelee - 631K followers on X

Measured over 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on September 2, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
1.40%
of 631K followers
Per impression
4.86%
181K views on a typical post
Reach
28.8%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
8.8K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.032%
57 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.07/day
active 7% of days
Peak time
01:00 UTC
Saturday

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 8.8K interactions against 631K followers, an engagement rate of 1.40%. Posts are seen about 181K times each, and 4.86% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 28.6% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.07 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 239K interactions, about 27x 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 2, 2026.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 1.40%, Dave Lee sits above the 75th percentile of the 65,864 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the top 25% band, which runs 0.499% to 2.09%.

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p250.016%
p50 (median)0.1%
p750.499%
p902.09%
p99120.1%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 65,864 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 57,191 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.016%
50th percentile0.1%
75th percentile0.499%
90th percentile2.09%
99th percentile120.1%

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 01:00 UTC, and Saturday 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: 01:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 01:00 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: Saturday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Saturday
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 link0% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 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.
  • 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 261 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

  • Jan 13, 202627x their median

    A Final Message From Scott Adams https://t.co/QKX6b0MFZA

    188K31K13K7.0K43M viewsView on X
  • Jun 9, 202424x their median

    I’ve mentioned something like this before, but, if any of my companies goes public, we will prioritize other longtime shareholders of my other companies, including Tesla. Loyalty deserves loyalty.

    183K15K7.4K1.6K53M viewsView on X
  • Dec 23, 20203.8x their median

    I propose @elonmusk to form a holding company called X. X's mission is to ensure human survival and progress. X becomes parent company of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and Boring Company. Elon, what do you think? 🙏

    30K1.2K1.2K327View on X
  • Dec 2, 20253.6x their median

    Just set a new PR in the lab https://t.co/8kJ2om7uV7

    25K3.5K2.1K1.6K39M viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 20252.8x their median

    https://t.co/ZA7KCwX7N9

    18K4.0K1.4K1.1K7.2M viewsView on X
  • Feb 2, 20261.9x their median

    To the future of humanity! https://t.co/oupCYfy2cf

    14K1.6K9963741.5M viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 2026

    I am currently on an 8 hour flight to France and it has Starlink Wi-Fi… Holy crap. This is the best thing in the world, everyone on this flight is scrolling, streaming, and they are sooooo happy. I’ve never experienced this before on a plane, it is magical.

    8.1K43123224181K viewsView on X
  • Jan 29, 2026

    SpaceX + xAI + Tesla. Let’s do it.

    5.1K31933160147K viewsView on X
  • Nov 6, 2025

    75%+ of TSLA shareholders have voted in favor of Elon Musk's 2025 CEO compensation plan. Congrats Elon and Tesla! Now onward to sustainable abundance. https://t.co/HgbMqu2LTu

    5.1K38811644137K viewsView on X
  • Oct 1, 2025

    A big shift is starting to happen. People are buying Tesla vehicles because FSD is great. Tesla FSD v14 is going to accelerate this.

    4.1K26618617128K 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 8.8K interactions against 631K followers, an engagement rate of 1.40%. Posts are seen about 181K times each, and 4.86% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 28.6% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.07 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 239K interactions, about 27x 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 Dave Lee's engagement rate on X?
Dave Lee (@davelee) has an engagement rate of 1.40%, based on the median interactions across 1 original posts from the last 30 days against 631,317 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 1.40%, Dave Lee sits above the 75th percentile of the 65,864 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 @davelee have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @davelee post?
Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.07 posts per day across the measured window.

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