The Culturist engagement report
@the_culturist_ - 1.6M followers on X
Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.2K interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.072%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 80% of 3,829 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 138K times each, and 0.839% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 8.65% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 90% carry an image or video, 16% are part of a thread and 26% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 33K interactions, about 29x its own typical post.
Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Culturist's engagement rate beats 80% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 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 51% 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 0.072%, The Culturist sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,071 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 158.3% |
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 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 71K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 80K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 88K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 103K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 100K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 86K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 81K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 234K |
| Monday | 0% | 294K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 288K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 247K |
| Friday | -3% | 256K |
| Saturday | +3% | 230K |
Best tweets
- Aug 9, 202629x their median
In a few days, Prometheus will stand 50 ft tall, holding high the torch of the West. Starbase, Texas. https://t.co/olP1D7VT23
- Aug 11, 202626x their median
This is the future we must choose. https://t.co/gxDOisdZSn
- Jul 15, 202619x their median
The past is becoming a foreign language https://t.co/DrJQvKtiSG
- Aug 14, 202619x their median
NEVER FORGET: once your culture is gone, it's gone forever. Government education has (deliberately) failed to teach the Great Books of the West for decades. So, we started an independent group to study the Western canon together. We're reading the books that form the mind and shape the spirit. The books our ancestors read. Western Civilization has given us the greatest works ever known, but it takes effort and an open mind to read them. Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Dante, Shakespeare, and Milton are not just names in a syllabus, but guides to a deeper and more ordered life. Join our reading group to study the great works in dialogue with others. We read a new classic every 4-6 weeks, and meet biweekly to discuss. We are just starting The Brothers Karamazov, the greatest psychological novel ever written. You do NOT want to miss this. Take out a paid subscription if you'd like to support us and join the discussions directly — it makes a huge difference to the time and resources we can dedicate. You'll get: - Live book club discussions (biweekly) - Access to our incredible community chat - Essays to guide you through the Great Books - All past recordings, essays, and podcasts - Ability to vote on what we read next https://t.co/efQaicNvay See you inside!
- Jul 13, 202616x their median
Breaking 🚨: My dear friend and former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse announced that his tumors have shrunk by 80% thanks in part to a new cancer drug Ben Sasse: “I'm down 99%, in five months, of how much cancer is in my blood.” 🙏 https://t.co/z0SegZm6Q2
- Jul 31, 202614x their median
We used to care about the little things. https://t.co/gOcjN5WGUs
- Aug 24, 202613x their median
This is not Europe. This is Missouri. The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, built in 1914. It has over 41 million mosaic pieces. Some of the most wondrous churches ever built are in the United States. https://t.co/KwAZ9QtCyS
- Jul 3, 202611x their median
Ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776: James Monroe, 18 Aaron Burr, 20 Alexander Hamilton, 21 James Madison, 25 Thomas Jefferson, 33 John Adams, 40 Age didn't matter. Education did. Classically educated founders built the greatest system of government in human history.
- Aug 3, 20268.4x their median
“NOBODY WANTS TO GO TO THE UPDATED LIBRARY WE BUILT, THEY MUST HATE BOOKS NOW” This is the world we have settled for and we let them build. Every space they will make look like it was designed around the style of a sports stadium men’s room. https://t.co/xRmldvbYMJ
- Jul 28, 20267.4x their median
In Dante's Inferno, people who were neutral in life are treated just as harshly as those who sinned. These are the "uncommitted" who chose no side. They are rejected by both Heaven *and* Hell. Lukewarm souls are made to wait forever in the "Vestibule of Hell". They're stung by wasps while they run around in pursuit of a meaningless white banner (in punishment for standing beneath no banner in life). Even worse, their blood and tears flow from their faces onto the ground to be consumed by maggots. Why? In Christianity, Christ's blood is shed for man's salvation, and the blood of the martyrs is considered the seed of the Church. To bleed — whether literally or metaphorically — for a worthy cause is a great act of love. But in the case of the lukewarm, their blood merely feeds maggots. "You shall know them by their fruits," Christ says, but the only "fruit" the lukewarm produce is nourishment for worms. Dante himself was exiled from his hometown of Florence by a rival faction after years of civil conflict. His dislike of the lukewarm stemmed from those who sat on the sidelines and did nothing while his sentence was handed down — those who let injustice slide and were more concerned with protecting their own lot in life. Dante doesn't even give them the courtesy of mentioning them by name in his Inferno. The "uncommitted" are all nameless. His warning to the spineless is thus: Stand for nothing, and nothing is what you'll become.
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 1.2K interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.072%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 80% of 3,829 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 138K times each, and 0.839% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 8.65% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 90% carry an image or video, 16% are part of a thread and 26% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 33K interactions, about 29x its own typical post.
- What is The Culturist's engagement rate on X?
- The Culturist (@the_culturist_) has an engagement rate of 0.072%, based on the median interactions across 31 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,590,689 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.072%, The Culturist sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,071 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 @the_culturist_ have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 80% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 accounts), which puts it in the top quarter for its size 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 @the_culturist_ post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.63 posts per day across the measured window.