Theo - t3.gg engagement report
@theo - 380K followers on X
Measured over 35 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.1K interactions against 380K followers, an engagement rate of 0.293%. Measured over 35 original posts, its engagement rate beats 72% of 3,739 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 136K times each, and 0.819% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 35.8% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 35 posts sampled, 34% carry an image or video, 9% are part of a thread and 6% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 57K interactions, about 51x its own typical post.
Measured over 35 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tag: #dsa.
Compared with accounts its own size
Theo - t3.gg's engagement rate beats 72% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 37% 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 0.293%, Theo - t3.gg sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,134 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.431%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.431% |
| 90th percentile | 2.11% |
| 99th percentile | 161.6% |
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 05:00 UTC, and Friday 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 42K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 41K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 47K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 51K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 68K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 71K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 77K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 85K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 99K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 89K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 73K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 65K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 228K |
| Monday | 0% | 281K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 270K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 249K |
| Thursday | -2% | 242K |
| Friday | -3% | 250K |
| Saturday | +3% | 225K |
Best tweets
- Aug 28, 202651x their median
ONE OF MY COWORKERS PUT OUR TEAM PHOTO INTO CHATGPT. CHATGPT HAS MY FACE NOW FOREVER. I CAN NEVER GET THAT BACK.
- Aug 29, 202621x their median
Starting September 14, we're permanently raising standard weekly limits in Claude Code by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. Until then, the current 50% increase will be in place.
- Aug 31, 20268.7x their median
We have designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms under the Digital Services Act. They now have four months to comply with additional DSA obligations. More: https://t.co/gIR8vTolmB #DSA https://t.co/luusxUd3i4
- Aug 30, 20265.6x their median
Last week, I pushed a change to the ChatGPT desktop app that makes the loading of threads faster. Not just a little faster. A LOT faster. ✅ Long threads now load over 90% faster. ✅ Decreased the memory footprint of long threads by over 90%.
- Aug 29, 20264.3x their median
I can’t believe there are people who still choose to use Antigravity and Gemini
- Aug 29, 20263.7x their median
Need 32gb RAM and 16 threads? Hetzner: $275/month to rent (€237.99) GMKtec: $759 to own (often on sale for $700) I know VPSs are overpriced and all but wtf? This is insane. Renting for 3 months is more expensive than buying outright. https://t.co/EhD7XX5hk6
- Aug 31, 20263.6x their median
To show how much I care about performance, I just ordered the worst specced 2020 Intel MacBook Air I could find (i3, 1.1 GHz, 8 GB RAM). It is the last supported hardware for macOS 15, our min target for Superlogical. Going to optimize on it for worst-case behavior.
- Aug 19, 20263.1x their median
Omarchy 4.1 is going to ship with @theo's T3 Code. Because beefs are dumb, and we should all just be excited about the tech. It takes literally just a few seconds to get going! https://t.co/MFtuaFc6Rd
- Aug 29, 20263.1x their median
Claude Code CLI > Codex CLI Codex desktop app > Claude Code desktop app I will not be taking further questions
- Mar 9, 20172.9x their median
Excited for the new release of #HuggingFace https://t.co/Rzl3qK1svk - proud investor! https://t.co/6Syoi503ih
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.
Recurring topics
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 1.1K interactions against 380K followers, an engagement rate of 0.293%. Measured over 35 original posts, its engagement rate beats 72% of 3,739 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 136K times each, and 0.819% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 35.8% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 35 posts sampled, 34% carry an image or video, 9% are part of a thread and 6% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 57K interactions, about 51x its own typical post.
- What is Theo - t3.gg's engagement rate on X?
- Theo - t3.gg (@theo) has an engagement rate of 0.293%, based on the median interactions across 35 original posts from the last 30 days against 380,482 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.293%, Theo - t3.gg sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,134 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 @theo have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 72% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @theo post?
- Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.53 posts per day across the measured window.