Chris Powers engagement report
@fortworthchris - 224K followers on X
Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 88 interactions against 224K followers, an engagement rate of 0.04%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 43% of 20,444 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 11K times each, and 0.789% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.00% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 80% carry an image or video and 50% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 454 interactions, about 5.2x its own typical post.
Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Chris Powers's engagement rate beats 43% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 37% 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 0.04%, Chris Powers sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,152 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 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 14:00 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 | 80% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 80% 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 973 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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
- Sep 23, 20265.2x their median
I'm hiring a former founder for a very important role here at RMFG Head of Factory Software. In person at our factory in Fort Worth, TX. This is an individual contributor role and you will be spending the vast majority of your time building software, not managing others. What are we doing? We're building the fastest contract manufacturer for robotics and advanced hardware companies. We're getting there by launching multiple online-first manufacturing capabilities and letting customers combine those into much more valuable assemblies, eventually full robots. We have a crazy roadmap and we've accomplished a ton with an insanely small non-production team (Me, one mech engineer, one former hardware founder leading growth, and one customer support person). It's very important to me that we keep this lean / scrappy DNA as we scale. Some reasons why you would want to work with us - We're growing incredibly fast. Revenue up ~10x since start of year. All important charts going up and to the right at a compounding m/m rate - We're growing (physically) incredibly fast. More than doubled factory floor space from 17k to 40k sq ft. This time last year we were in 4.5k sq ft. - We have cool customers. People putting stuff into outer space, nuclear technology, countless robot companies, guys making great money selling weird niche components that we make, public companies, and everything in between. - Your work will be immediately impactful and important. There will be days where you will push code changes that you physically can see the effects propagated to the floor quickly. Some days I know that I just made a multi-million dollar commit, seeing how much money it saves us on a process, or what rework it prevents, etc. - Your work will help make the American dream possible for hundreds of factory workers here at RMFG. Today we have ~20 production staff, and multiple are starting families and buying homes because of the work we provide. - Meaningful amounts of equity - We are a venture-backed hardware startup that is making more money than it burns (highly unusual) - A ton of incredibly smart people have backed us. (YC, Patrick Collison, Kyle Vogt, etc). - You will work on hard real world engineering challenges What I'm looking for - evidence of extraordinary software ability - someone who has touched grass - relentless, killer, ambitious founder mindset send me an email w/ evidence of your skills kenneth at domain name
- Sep 24, 20262.3x their median
I'm sitting down with Ross Perot Jr next week for a long conversation. He is one of the most consequential leaders in America right now and his crown jewel development, Alliance TX, is 1 of 1. What would you like to know?
- Sep 9, 20262.3x their median
Today I sit down with Zane Hengsperger (@zanehengsperger), Founder and CEO of NOX Metals, a metal supplier in Detroit he started in 2025. NOX buys metal from the mill, cuts it to the exact size a machine shop needs, and ships it out. The whole operation runs on software the company writes itself. Zane is 26, and his first job was scrubbing the floors of his dad's machine shop at 14. He went into software, then came back to run a machine shop. That is where he saw that metal was the bottleneck for everyone making parts in America. The incumbents have been around for 200 years and have never put software to work. NOX is a year old and has raised an $11.5M seed round. It has written a million lines of code and quotes an order in 10 seconds. We discuss: • The 18-minute call with Y Combinator that put him on a plane the next day • Why his dad hired software engineers for a machine shop back in 2017 • How one piece of software does the work of 20 salespeople • Why two of his engineers moved their desks onto the factory floor • Why the forklift driver gets equity after three months • The 7pm order that was in Dallas by 10 the next morning • Why he says America needs 100x more factories • Where AI has let him down so far This one is for anyone betting on American manufacturing. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (01:10) Reading Alex Karp and Walking Back Into a Machine Shop (06:06) Hiring Young Technicians Who Want Hard Work (09:10) Why the Brand Is the Moat (14:28) Lessons From a Dad Who Ran a Machine Shop (16:14) Getting Into Y Combinator With One Day's Notice (22:06) Buy a Saw and Write Instant Quoting Software (27:37) Software Engineers on the Factory Floor (34:29) Is America Actually Reindustrializing? (40:55) America Needs 100 Times More Factories (45:26) Quotes in 10 Seconds Instead of Eight Hours (50:09) Delta Cargo Deliveries and Why Detroit Is Ripping (56:07) Where AI Falls Short and What the Next 24 Months Hold (59:13) The Customer Is the Core Thing Left in America
- Sep 25, 20261.6x their median
Long Texas
- Sep 30, 2026
Today I sit down with Shlomo Chopp, Founder of Case Equity Partners. His job is helping real estate owners get out of or restructure loans they can't pay. Shlomo got into this after an attorney told him to read the CMBS loan documents, and he read them cover to cover. Today his clients range from owners with a couple million dollars of debt to an $800 million capital stack. We get into what is actually in a modern loan document, and what a borrower should do before the lender starts looking. We discuss: • Why 2008 did not play out like the savings and loan crisis • How a non-recourse loan turns into full recourse • How a payment due on a holiday can lock up your cash • How to study your loan documents before the next deal • Why an underwater property is the borrower's biggest leverage • Why he thinks the worst has already happened • Where he would put $50 million today Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (01:03) Why the Savings and Loan Playbook Failed in 2008 (08:18) How Loan Documents Got Tougher After 2008 (16:12) Why You Should Model Every Clause in Your Loan Documents (22:16) Which Lenders Hide Full Recourse in the Fine Print (25:21) How to Learn and Negotiate Your Loan Documents (32:18) What's Usually Gone Wrong by the Time a Borrower Calls (39:54) A Borrower's Leverage in a Loan Workout (44:09) Restructuring a Loan When You're Out of Cash (49:36) The Game Theory of Negotiating With Your Lender (53:14) A Good Operator Is Not the Same as a Good GP (54:53) Why Office and Multifamily Are Seeing the Most Distress (1:01:17) How Lenders' View of Office Has Shifted (1:03:26) Why the Worst of the Distress Is Already Here
- Sep 29, 2026
Next week on the podcast, Woody Hunt, Chairman Emeritus @ Hunt Companies. IYKYK https://t.co/JwDh2F1DAo
- Aug 20, 2026
Most developers underwrite a new project by betting rents will rise. Steven Campisi underwrites Hillpointe's deals assuming they won't. "I wanna see what's already established, and I just wanna hit the copy/paste button." Instead of chasing the newest, nicest building in a market, he anchors to what 15-year-old apartments nearby already rent for. "I don't need any real rent growth in this market to make this deal make sense." In this clip, Steven explains the underwriting rule that lets Hillpointe green-light deals other developers can't.
- Sep 10, 2026
Zane Hengsperger (@zanehengsperger), Founder and CEO of NOX Metals, got into Y Combinator on an 18-minute phone call and had to be in San Francisco the next day. "I realized that metal was this immense bottleneck... how do we get it faster and cheaper?" "You study the metal incumbents, these great businesses that have been around for 200 years, 300 locations. But then you realize they've never been able to implement technology because their DNA is from two centuries ago." "I actually applied to YC with it, got no response." "I got an email from Jared Friedman at YC. He's like, 'Hey, totally missed your application. Are you still interested in doing this?'" "He's like, 'Hey, we'd like to offer you a spot in YC.' I was like, 'Oh, great.' He says, 'But the batch starts today, so you'd have to fly out tomorrow.'" "Flew to San Francisco, not a line of code, not a factory, not a product, not a saw, a machine, anything." In this clip, the 12 hour decision to go to YC.
- Sep 17, 2026
Adam Blake (@adamblake), Co-Founder & CEO of Mavria and former DOGE team lead at the Department of Energy, spent a little more than a year inside the Department of Energy. He thinks the AI race and military power are the same conversation. "An adversary doesn't have to necessarily invade you with tanks. If they have better AI, they have power over you." Which is why he has no patience for a pause. "I totally reject these ideas of we need moratoriums, we need to pause working on AI." "When I think of China in this AI race, they're almost the mirror image of the United States. We've got the best people, the best capital markets. We have NVIDIA, and we have the best chips. What China has is industrial capabilities." In this clip, the five-to-ten-year scenario he calls scary.
- Sep 24, 2026
Terry Montesi, Founder and CEO of Trademark Property Company, just closed 4 retail deals in 30 days. He started the firm in Fort Worth in 1992 and says it had never closed more than 2 in a month. I asked him for a state of the union on retail. "the retail development business has essentially been... closed down, shut down, dead, zero since '09." "the only thing that was getting built was Target building for themselves, Walmart building for themselves, Dollar Tree and all these people building for themselves, or neighborhood grocers with 20,000 feet of shop space." "So a 17-year dead cycle. Not a down cycle, but I call it, it was a dead cycle." Demand never took the 17 years off. "the US consumer is the most resilient thing that you've ever studied." "we're out of space. So we're 4.4% vacant in the country."
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 88 interactions against 224K followers, an engagement rate of 0.04%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 43% of 20,444 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 11K times each, and 0.789% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.00% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 80% carry an image or video and 50% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 454 interactions, about 5.2x its own typical post.
- What is Chris Powers's engagement rate on X?
- Chris Powers (@fortworthchris) has an engagement rate of 0.04%, based on the median interactions across 10 original posts from the last 30 days against 224,099 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.04%, Chris Powers sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,152 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 @fortworthchris have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 43% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @fortworthchris post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.03 posts per day across the measured window.