Leo Laporte, Chief TWiT engagement report
@leolaporte - 445K followers on X
Measured over 5 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 10, 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 88 interactions against 445K followers, an engagement rate of 0.02%. Posts are seen about 14K times each, and 0.64% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.09% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.27 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 5 posts sampled, 60% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.3K interactions, about 14x 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 10, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.02%, Leo Laporte, Chief TWiT sits above the 10th percentile of the 201,787 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 | 0.142% |
| 75th percentile | 0.672% |
| 90th percentile | 2.54% |
| 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 20:00 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 | 0% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 60% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 0% 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.
- 60% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 287 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 10, 202614x their median
Forty years ago the first worm "escaped" containment and breached systems on the brand new Internet. It was illegal then and it's illegal now. If Anthropic and OpenAI are creating worms, labeling it "AI" doesn't let them off the hook. It's not Doom, it's Malware. Prosecute the creators, don't ban AI. "Oops" wasn't a defense for Robert Tappan Morris and it's not a defense now.
- Sep 4, 20269.3x their median
AI/Agentic attacks have made headlines recently, but agents are highly "suggestible", allowing us to easily detect (or derail) them. Our new "Agent Provocateur" deploys in minutes & works. Read more here, including how to ask agents for reverse shells https://t.co/FTFJfIieNg https://t.co/vAHY5E5cYd
- Dec 13, 20227.1x their median
I've deleted all my tweets and DMs here. Going forward reach me at https://t.co/2y0u5tDrgD. Thanks!
- Aug 14, 20262.3x their median
I was questioning my common sense when I traded my 3070 in for a used RTX 3090. And then I knew I'd gone totally crazy when I bought *two* DGX Sparks (spending my kids inheritance). And yet, today, running Hermes with Qwen 3.8 27B on one machine and DeepSeek V4 Flash 731 on the Sparks, all totally local, I think maybe I wasn't so nuts after all. We live in amazing times.
- Aug 9, 20231.7x their median
Hey @TWiT fans who live in Wisconsin or near Green Bay - we are going to Lambeau Field for a game this year. If we have a meet-up on Friday night in Green Bay, September 29th, at 6 pm - would you come say hi? Let me know if you're interested. I am trying to get a headcount.
- Sep 17, 20261.6x their median
Open weights. Open weights. Open weights. The frontier can and should run on prem.
- Sep 4, 2026
I feel I've gone wrong somewhere. Everyone else's agents are starting their own message boards, hacking enterprise servers, coding first person shooters in a single prompt. Meanwhile, mine are correcting each other's pronouns. https://t.co/iq0h6DMDT0
- Jul 9, 2024
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- Aug 7, 2026
I’m so glad we were at black hat for this. Literally the most important story in tech today. We are at an inflection point. We knew this would happen eventually but it’s here now and it’s both exhilarating and terrifying https://t.co/J2VXDMrubM
- Feb 25, 2026
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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 445K followers, an engagement rate of 0.02%. Posts are seen about 14K times each, and 0.64% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.09% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.27 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 5 posts sampled, 60% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.3K interactions, about 14x 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 Leo Laporte, Chief TWiT's engagement rate on X?
- Leo Laporte, Chief TWiT (@leolaporte) has an engagement rate of 0.02%, based on the median interactions across 5 original posts from the last 30 days against 444,851 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.02%, Leo Laporte, Chief TWiT sits above the 10th percentile of the 201,787 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 @leolaporte have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @leolaporte post?
- Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.27 posts per day across the measured window.