Theo - t3.gg engagement report
@theo - 414K followers on X
Measured over 43 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.6K interactions against 414K followers, an engagement rate of 0.41%. Measured over 43 original posts, its engagement rate beats 90% of 20,182 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 127K times each, and 1.28% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 30.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 43 posts sampled, 56% carry an image or video and 9% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 71K interactions, about 44x its own typical post.
Measured over 43 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Theo - t3.gg's engagement rate beats 90% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,182 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 54% 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 0.41%, Theo - t3.gg sits above the 50th percentile of the 204,491 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.677%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.677% |
| 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 19:00 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% | 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 | 56% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 56% 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.
- 0% 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 217 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
- Sep 10, 202644x their median
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- Aug 28, 202635x their median
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- Aug 29, 202614x their median
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- Sep 28, 202611x their median
Why the fuck did I move to San Francisco bro https://t.co/cKYaQ2I7Nq
- Aug 31, 20266.4x 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
- Sep 29, 20265.2x their median
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- Sep 28, 20264.0x their median
A $200 Claude Code sub gets you ~$9,000 of Opus usage per month. I have managed to run 3 Claude accounts down to 0% since Opus 5.5 dropped. When analyzing their usage, costs were $2,086, $2,442, and $2,182. Average is $2,200/week, so ~$9,000/month
- Aug 30, 20263.9x 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%.
- Sep 8, 20263.4x their median
GPT-6 Astra has done incredible things I never thought a model could do. It has also done some of the stupidest things I've ever seen a model do. Generally speaking, Fable 5.1 just does what I ask. https://t.co/X2UwI7tDnD
- Sep 10, 20263.2x their median
Most don’t realize that this (more than wobbly glowy glass buttons) is actually skeuomorphism at its finest https://t.co/uRP5x14AnY
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 1.6K interactions against 414K followers, an engagement rate of 0.41%. Measured over 43 original posts, its engagement rate beats 90% of 20,182 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 127K times each, and 1.28% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 30.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 43 posts sampled, 56% carry an image or video and 9% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 71K interactions, about 44x its own typical post.
- What is Theo - t3.gg's engagement rate on X?
- Theo - t3.gg (@theo) has an engagement rate of 0.41%, based on the median interactions across 43 original posts from the last 30 days against 413,849 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.41%, Theo - t3.gg sits above the 50th percentile of the 204,491 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 90% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,182 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 @theo post?
- Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.5 posts per day across the measured window.