Guido van Rossum engagement report
@gvanrossum - 308K followers on X
Measured over 5 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 16, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 5 original posts 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 146 interactions against 308K followers, an engagement rate of 0.048%. Posts are seen about 17K times each, and 0.845% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.62% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.17 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 5 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video and 20% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 117x its own typical post. Only 5 original posts 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 5 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 16, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.048%, Guido van Rossum sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,491 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 | 0.677% |
| 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 16:00 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 | 40% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 20% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 40% 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.
- 20% 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 119 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
- Mar 17, 2026117x their median
Just what I thought. Israel pushed Trump into the Iran war.
- Feb 18, 202670x their median
Hey @elonmusk, does SpaceX use Python, and for what? How extensively?
- Mar 31, 202637x their median
I think I finally understand what an agent is. It's a prompt (or several), skills, and tools. Did I get this right?
- Jan 31, 202618x their median
While I'm still here, let me exercise my freedom of speech (which I know doesn't actually exist on Twitter). America was born out of a revolution against a capricious, arbitrary king. Once again we find ourselves struggling under an autocratic, unaccountable leader wanting to be a "king". So is it really too much to compare the situation to earlier revolutionary times and ask for an overthrow of his regime? The constitution is on my side.
- Feb 27, 202616x their median
Talking of spines, Anthropic definitely has one. May they continue to expose and resist the Pentagon’s blackmail.
- May 15, 202616x their median
PyCon US has started! So far I am very disappointed in the first keynote -- it's just a product pitch and the speaker isn't that engaging. Sorry.
- Jan 24, 2026
The revolution apparently will start in Minnesota. I would not have expected that. Yay Minnesotans!
- Apr 30, 202614x their median
Everybody is adding a feature where you can manage your agents from your phone. Don't use it. You'll just get even more addicted, and will burn out even quicker.
- Mar 4, 202613x their median
I've just released a new version of typeagent, a Python library I've been working on since mid last year --more and more using Claude-- that implements memory for agents. Not originally my idea, I mostly ported the TypeScript version by Steve Lucco and Umesh Madan. This release was improved a lot by Bernhard Merkle. To install, use "pip install typeagent". Changelog: https://t.co/5tuMTxthTd
- Apr 15, 202610x their median
"If the technology fell in the wrong hands" => Yes, it will. Every. Single. Time.
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 146 interactions against 308K followers, an engagement rate of 0.048%. Posts are seen about 17K times each, and 0.845% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.62% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.17 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 5 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video and 20% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 117x its own typical post. Only 5 original posts 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 Guido van Rossum's engagement rate on X?
- Guido van Rossum (@gvanrossum) has an engagement rate of 0.048%, based on the median interactions across 5 original posts from the last 30 days against 307,636 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.048%, Guido van Rossum sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,491 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 @gvanrossum have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @gvanrossum post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.17 posts per day across the measured window.