Jim O'Shaughnessy engagement report
@jposhaughnessy - 193K followers on X
Measured over 37 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 11, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 43 interactions against 193K followers, an engagement rate of 0.022%. Measured over 37 original posts, its engagement rate beats 34% 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 6.0K times each, and 0.722% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.08% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 37 posts sampled, 38% carry an image or video and 22% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.3K interactions, about 100x its own typical post.
Measured over 37 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 11, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Jim O'Shaughnessy's engagement rate beats 34% 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 34% 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 0.022%, Jim O'Shaughnessy sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,880 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
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 13:00 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.
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 | 38% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 22% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 38% 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.
- 22% 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 271 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
- Oct 7, 2026100x their median
One of Alfred Hitchcock’s finest, NORTH BY NORTHWEST features magnificent interplay between Eva Marie Saint and Cary Grant. Much of their chemistry, Saint said, “Hitch said to do three things: lower your voice, don’t use your hands, and look into Cary’s eyes at all times.” https://t.co/T1c7PlQaY5
- Sep 14, 202681x their median
Mark, by @colossusjeremy. This is a story about the head of history's largest nonterritorial empire, who nonetheless remains a prisoner of his rivals. Has he finally found a way out? The profile has been nearly a year in the making. Stern interviewed three dozen people, including Zuckerberg, his MMA coach, and his critics and competitors at the frontier AI labs. He spoke with his parents, Karen and Ed, and watched their son get punched in the face. The story spans Meta HQ in Menlo Park, the Zuckerbergs' homes in Palo Alto and Lake Tahoe, and a party in a Manhattan warehouse with Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet. There is also a sneak peek of Aaron Sorkin's forthcoming sequel about Zuckerberg, sourced via a Hollywood fixer Stern first encountered in Russia. The result is a profile unlike one you've read before. https://t.co/uO3zL1HKDl
- Sep 1, 202654x their median
"To really grapple with the Aztecs is to experience a sort of vertigo every bit as disorienting and nauseating as cosmic horror itself. … The nine most frightening words in the English language might be 'the distribution of possible human societies is very wide.'” https://t.co/KUNGUgjIFc
- Sep 7, 202651x their median
Malcolm Guite explains, in just 90 seconds, how the deconstruction of our guiding stories leads to the collapse of civilization. @malcolmguite https://t.co/7TUXQwwANU
- Dec 7, 201950x their median
People resist new technology, new ideas. As Dostoevsky opens Crime & Punishment with: "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." I think fear points the way toward progress. Here's an ad from 1915 (via @PessimistsArc) suggesting a horse outperforms a car. https://t.co/TZY8Q1Xp7D
- Jan 1, 202326x their median
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- Sep 2, 202611x their median
This is probably the best single podcast I’ve ever watched for founders. @davidsenra has truly created what he calls “Church for entrepreneurs” in the Founder’s podcast. He's read 400+ biographies of history's greatest founders distilled the biggest lessons into 15 harsh truths: 1. Excellence is the capacity to take pain. Nothing worth doing arrives easily: Izzy Sharp built Four Seasons with no money, no experience, no contacts, and years of 2am ceiling-staring. 2. Problems are opportunities in work clothes. Business IS problems. The best companies are just efficient problem-solving machines. 3. There are ideas worth billions sitting in a $30 history book. Every great entrepreneur studied the great entrepreneurs before them. 4. A trusted personal network may be the most valuable asset in the world. Not a follower count. A handful of people who'd pick up at 3am. 5. Most high performers are driven by insufficiency, not balance. They're filling a void, not enacting a beautiful vision. Be honest about which one you are. 6. Actions express priority. You are only what you do, never what you say you value. 7. Bad boys move in silence. When you find an edge, shut up about it. Talking invites competition. Competition destroys profits. 8. Belief comes BEFORE ability. The world has this backwards: it wants you to prove it first. Nobody ever tried anything they didn't first believe was possible. 9. By endurance we conquer. Time carries most of the weight. It's very hard to beat someone who simply never stops. 10. Stay in the details of your business. Sam Zell's line: there is no problem you can't solve: if you're close enough to actually see it. 11. The public praises you for what you practiced in private. There is no overnight success, only years nobody watched. 12. Self-pity has no utility. Munger buried his 9-year-old son while broke and divorced. Live long enough and bad things happen: the only question is whether you use them. 13. The best in any field has gathered more information than a reasonable person would. You can't out-IQ everyone, but you can out-read them. 14. Money comes naturally as a result of service. A business is just an idea that makes someone else's life better. Founders who lead with the number rarely get it. 15. The exit strategy is death. Retirement can be fatal. The people who love the work don't stop: they just keep going until the day they don't.
- Sep 9, 20269.0x their median
Jaron Lanier on how to think about LLMs (and stuff like it doing mathematics). As a bonus, he connects current doom-talk around AI directly to the loss of optimism in popular Sci-Fi. Memes beginning in Sci-Fi fundamentally affect talk in intellectual/tech communities: https://t.co/KtOCCfoi1d
- Sep 15, 20268.4x their median
What happens when every NBA team works from the same data? Former Phoenix Suns Assistant GM Ryan Resch on why dashboards show lagging indicators, and why the edge comes from proprietary questions built on public data. On Infinite Loops with @jimmyasoni. https://t.co/FxpqbvItYZ
- Jun 2, 20214.2x their median
Quick tip: After consuming content, do you feel an increase in Fear, Uncertainty or Doubt? If you do, the authors of that content are probably Propagandists, and they want to elicit those feelings in you. Resist it. Ask, "why am I seeing this now?" https://t.co/IuJrRMsCIc
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 43 interactions against 193K followers, an engagement rate of 0.022%. Measured over 37 original posts, its engagement rate beats 34% 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 6.0K times each, and 0.722% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.08% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 37 posts sampled, 38% carry an image or video and 22% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.3K interactions, about 100x its own typical post.
- What is Jim O'Shaughnessy's engagement rate on X?
- Jim O'Shaughnessy (@jposhaughnessy) has an engagement rate of 0.022%, based on the median interactions across 37 original posts from the last 30 days against 193,235 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.022%, Jim O'Shaughnessy sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,880 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 @jposhaughnessy have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 34% 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 @jposhaughnessy post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.43 posts per day across the measured window.