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Jimmy Wales engagement report

@jimmy_wales - 213K followers on X

Measured over 6 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 5, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.336%
of 213K followers
Per impression
0.674%
106K views on a typical post
Reach
49.7%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
714
interactions (median)
Saved
0.076%
81 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.83/day
active 67% of days
Peak time
11:00 UTC
Sunday

Early reading. We have captured 6 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 714 interactions against 213K followers, an engagement rate of 0.336%. Posts are seen about 106K times each, and 0.674% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 49.8% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 6 posts sampled, 33% carry an image or video and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 66K interactions, about 93x its own typical post. Only 6 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 6 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 5, 2026.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.336%, Jimmy Wales sits above the 50th percentile of the 200,136 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.141% to 0.669%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.141%
p750.669%
p902.53%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 200,136 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 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 percentile0.141%
75th percentile0.669%
90th percentile2.53%
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 Sunday 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: Sunday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Sunday
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 video33% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link33% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 33% 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.
  • 33% 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 322 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 27, 202693x their median

    Never donate a single cent to Wikipedia https://t.co/QlB42YcQ82

    59K6.5K5061761.3M viewsView on X
  • Jul 2, 20263.2x their median

    El Tribunal de Justicia de la UE ha autorizado el enjuiciamiento penal en los países de la UE de las personas que publiquen vídeos de Russia Today en canales y sitios web abiertos.

    1.5K8793024871.1M viewsView on X
  • Sep 6, 20262.8x their median

    🚨NEW: 62,199 people have been arrested for "communications offences" in the UK over the past five years, according to a new report set to be published The report highlights cases involving people being arrested for watching 'offensive content' on TikTok [@GBNEWS]

    1.7K2196129138K viewsView on X
  • Jul 15, 20261.6x their median

    'We have decided not to limit VPNs' Online Saftey minister Kanishka Narayan told #BBCBreakfast the Government has decided not to restrict access to Virtual Private Networks (VPN) as part of a social media ban for under 16s, despite initially suggesting it would take action https://t.co/eVcbOEAtA8

    529139310178362K viewsView on X
  • Sep 16, 2026

    https://t.co/GvK1HEP2ZY And they say age verification law BS only applies to adult stuff in Texas - explain why this is happening to apps like MCDONALD'S then? https://t.co/GybxghUecx

    590124554674K viewsView on X
  • Sep 19, 2026

    Spain Orders Blocks On Archive Today And Its Mirrors https://t.co/ouhyrI3hRD

    4321501417159K viewsView on X
  • Sep 28, 2026

    I'm not sure why the UK thinks that the "social media ban" is going to go any better than the Online Safety Act. The (U.S.) services that comply, comply; VPN circumvention remains available; US services that refuse to comply will continue to be available.

    40950927.1K viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 2026

    Generative AI text watermarking is surprisingly interesting as a technique. For a long text it would be easy enough to encode not just the AI model that was used, but also a code to identify the specific user. This is likely to be yet one more factor driving the adoption of freely licensed models and software which can be used locally without any sort of account.

    1401415314K viewsView on X
  • Jul 8, 2026

    The UK’s Ofcom regulator has given 4Chan until tomorrow, July 9th to pay their £594,000 ($793,878 USD) fine But how did the UK government end up in a legal battle with 4Chan on American soil? @prestonjbyrne said they look for backdoor ways to censor internet users: https://t.co/8b9Pv7KOcO

    98159230K viewsView on X
  • Dec 1, 2025

    My Book, The Seven Rules of Trust, is out in English language markets as well as in German. https://t.co/qQaEN3nuOP https://t.co/xyuwNlAeub

    581150231K 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 714 interactions against 213K followers, an engagement rate of 0.336%. Posts are seen about 106K times each, and 0.674% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 49.8% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 6 posts sampled, 33% carry an image or video and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 66K interactions, about 93x its own typical post. Only 6 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 Jimmy Wales's engagement rate on X?
Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales) has an engagement rate of 0.336%, based on the median interactions across 6 original posts from the last 30 days against 212,605 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.336%, Jimmy Wales sits above the 50th percentile of the 200,136 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 @jimmy_wales have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @jimmy_wales post?
Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.83 posts per day across the measured window.

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