The Information engagement report
@theinformation - 1.5M followers on X
Measured over 233 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 13 interactions against 1.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 233 original posts, its engagement rate beats 17% of 3,829 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 11K times each, and 0.122% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.731% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 8.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 233 posts sampled, 15% carry an image or video and 87% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 588 interactions, about 45x its own typical post.
Measured over 233 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Information's engagement rate beats 17% 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 11% 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 0.001%, The Information sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,071 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 | 0.435% |
| 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 19:00 UTC, and Monday 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 20, 202645x their median
open source AI is...happening? :) Anthropic & OpenAI better hope AT&T is the exception, not the rule https://t.co/Bc2KwCTMh1
- Aug 21, 202610x their median
OpenAI temporarily slowed model development and increased safety monitoring after one of its agents hacked internal and outside systems during testing. The shift raises pressure on Anthropic and other rivals to devote more computing power to safeguards. Read more:
- Aug 28, 20268.8x their median
Cognition is generating about $900 million in annualized revenue, more than triple its rate at the start of the year. But the Devin maker could burn $800 million in cash this year as it spends heavily on Nvidia servers. Get all the details: https://t.co/e0YZCJNvWy
- Aug 27, 20267.5x their median
Exclusive: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, giving it control of one of the most important repositories for open-source AI models. The deal could help Nvidia defend its chip dominance as OpenAI, Google and others develop competing hardware. Full story: https://t.co/OdEJnb1Hc2
- Aug 24, 20267.2x their median
Exclusive: Nvidia is discussing an investment in Perplexity at a valuation of more than $30 billion. Perplexity’s annualized revenue has climbed above $750 million, more than tripling since the start of the year. Full story: https://t.co/IwW3NX1MVh
- Aug 28, 20267.1x their median
The Information | TITV | August 28, 2026 https://t.co/1y7xhnE3YY
- Aug 24, 20266.7x their median
Nvidia’s flagship AI server chip systems are set to get about 17% more expensive, according to customers notified by server makers. The increase could add at least $5 billion to the cost of a 1-gigawatt data center. More details: https://t.co/xjc14LDELT
- Aug 24, 20266.6x their median
Tim Cook’s farewell at Apple Park included a OneRepublic performance, tributes from senior Apple figures and an unusually personal acknowledgment of his partner. Read more: https://t.co/SauRX2A3nn
- Aug 30, 20266.0x their median
Exclusive: SoftBank could take control of humanoid robot developer 1X in a deal valuing the OpenAI-backed startup at about $6 billion. Full story: https://t.co/n5H4NSRY6d
- Aug 23, 20265.4x their median
OpenAI temporarily slowed model development and increased safety monitoring after one of its agents hacked internal and outside systems during testing. The shift raises pressure on Anthropic and other rivals to devote more computing power to safeguards. Read more:
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 13 interactions against 1.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 233 original posts, its engagement rate beats 17% of 3,829 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 11K times each, and 0.122% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.731% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 8.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 233 posts sampled, 15% carry an image or video and 87% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 588 interactions, about 45x its own typical post.
- What is The Information's engagement rate on X?
- The Information (@theinformation) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 233 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,459,341 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, The Information sits below the 10th 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 @theinformation have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 17% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 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 @theinformation post?
- Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 8.43 posts per day across the measured window.