Jason Fried engagement report
@jasonfried - 4.8M followers on X
Measured over 88 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 318 interactions against 4.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 88 original posts, its engagement rate beats 40% of 3,774 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 155K times each, and 0.205% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.25% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 88 posts sampled, 55% carry an image or video, 10% are part of a thread and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 60x its own typical post.
Measured over 88 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Jason Fried's engagement rate beats 40% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 20% 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 0.007%, Jason Fried sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 21, 202660x their median
One of the coolest uses of a text effect that I’ve seen in a long while. Bravo @hermeuscorp! https://t.co/Ybro5dL7iP
- Aug 13, 202645x their median
General Dynamics annual reports, 1967–1977 https://t.co/VdBSHqmmkE
- Aug 14, 202631x their median
Omarchy Quattro is out!! This is one of the greatest software releases in my professional career. I hope you enjoy using it just as much as I did building it ✌️ https://t.co/81wLStgH7P https://t.co/3KiamkmNS1
- Aug 26, 202621x their median
The absolute best color palettes come from nature and you can’t convince me otherwise https://t.co/k9QFXvf8DB
- Aug 14, 202619x their median
I think NBA should have a “Field of Dreams” regular season game in one of old buildings from league origins that’s still standing (i.e. 69th Regiment Armory in NYC). The league could spruce up as a community service project & play game there, smaller crowd, but big TV audience. https://t.co/DfgUKk3VW7
- May 11, 202318x their median
What do they got? A big team, lots of money, a strong brand, seemingly unlimited resources, panache, reputation, all that. They’re established. They’re your competitors. You want to look away, but you see them everywhere. Their ads on your social, their name in the media, your dream clients on their website. But you know what else they got? Bigger company bloat. Overflowing obligations. Narratives to uphold. Appearances to maintain. Entitlement. Too much overhead. They’re slow. They’re conservative. They talk too much. They’ve stopped taking risks. They’re resting on their laurels, gliding on their reputation. They’re on defense. What they’ve really got is a lot to lose. What do you got? Hunger. Drive. Grit. Scrappiness. Independence. You’re on offense. You don’t have enough, which is why you’re dangerous. You have no choice but to be clever and creative. To make up for what you don’t have with something they can’t have: The underdog spirit. You can move. You can adjust. You can adapt. You can get it done while they’re still stuck deciding what to do. Small is not a stepping stone. Small is not less than. It’s greater than. It’s faster than. It’s better than. Savor your position. You don’t get to be the underdog forever. The baton will be passed. But for now, it’s your magic wand. Use it. We stand with the underdogs.
- Aug 20, 202615x their median
Three neon divers descend beside the Starlite Motel sign in Mesa, Arizona. 📸 bengeierphotography https://t.co/meqJgHM31Y
- Aug 31, 202612x their median
Just built my first Omarchy plugin! This also happens to be the first piece of software I've ever made solo entirely with AI. Back-and-forth over English and nothing else. So two firsts for me. Super fun experience. Here's a quick little tour. Hope you dig it. https://t.co/cGPZd5cLN7
- Aug 26, 202612x their median
$5300 in $100s please. That's what we said at the bank this morning. See, whenever you have a free IRL event, you tend to get a lot of no-shows. Plenty of people sign up and RSVP, but ultimately far fewer show up. This isn't a big deal if you have unlimited space and anyone can just show, but if you want to have an event at a small venue, and you can only host, say, 80 people, you need to have a sense of how many are coming. That's why you require signup, that's why you require RSVPs. But still, many don't show. We've run into this with our own free events over the years. You "sell out" of space, but you end up with 15 extra seats because people don't show. Those seats could have been filled with people who really wanted to be there. We could charge, which might help, but we really want this to be a free event. So what to do? How can we find a way to bridge the gap between who says they'll show, and who will really show? How do we shrink the delta? We're trying something tomorrow. Tomorrow we have a Breakfast with Basecamp IRL event in Chicago. It's entirely free. As long as you show up. 53 registered. When you register you're charged $100. And if you show up, you get a crisp $100 bill at the door. So you're made whole, it's entirely free. If you don't show, you forfeit your $100. It costs you money not to be there. A little incentive. This isn't a new idea. Some restaurants have been charging for reservations, essentially asking you put down a deposit which can be applied to the meal if you show. If not, you lose the deposit. So we're doing the same thing, except for a free event, and rather than apply the deposit to the meal or ticket price (which we don't have), we just literally hand you back the cost of admission, with a smile. I'm really curious to see if it works. I'll comment back with the no-show rate and compare it to our last event where we didn't do this at all.
- Aug 13, 20266.8x their median
Porsche heard you: The manual 911 Carrera S is back. The 911 Carrera S gets a North America-exclusive MT Package for 2027, which has six gears, 473 horsepower, and loads of features. All the details: https://t.co/XzxXPoGsoi https://t.co/LIP1VEqh2g
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 318 interactions against 4.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 88 original posts, its engagement rate beats 40% of 3,774 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 155K times each, and 0.205% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.25% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 88 posts sampled, 55% carry an image or video, 10% are part of a thread and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 60x its own typical post.
- What is Jason Fried's engagement rate on X?
- Jason Fried (@jasonfried) has an engagement rate of 0.007%, based on the median interactions across 88 original posts from the last 30 days against 4,770,252 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.007%, Jason Fried sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 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 @jasonfried have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 40% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @jasonfried post?
- Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 6.17 posts per day across the measured window.