The Points Guy engagement report
@thepointsguy - 727K followers on X
Measured over 97 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 11 interactions against 727K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 97 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,739 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 22K times each, and 0.05% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.02% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 97 posts sampled, 5% carry an image or video and 76% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 67 interactions, about 6.1x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #aviation, #airbus, #airsial.
Measured over 97 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #aviation, #airbus, #airsial.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Points Guy's engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 4% 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 0.002%, The Points Guy sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 | 0.431% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 16:00 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 51K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 71K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 229K |
| Monday | 0% | 284K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 273K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 250K |
| Thursday | -2% | 243K |
| Friday | -3% | 251K |
| Saturday | +3% | 226K |
Best tweets
- Aug 31, 20266.1x their median
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- Aug 21, 20264.9x their median
The verdict is in: Delta and Aeromexico can continue their partnership in the largest international market from the U.S. π https://t.co/fgRZFtAFLM
- Aug 18, 20264.8x their median
American Airlines customers will soon have seatback screens β even in economy! 𫨠βοΈ https://t.co/q9hF2YiQ5D
- Aug 20, 20264.7x their median
11 hours in business class? Yes please. π€© #honolulu #hawaiianairlines #airbus #avgeek https://t.co/ZzggKVWAeC
- Aug 27, 20264.6x their median
United's posh new Airbus A321XLR is headed overseas π« Take a peek on board π https://t.co/qU9dfisfT9
- Aug 26, 20263.2x their median
United isn't stopping at new routes β the airline will welcome back its most noteworthy international destinations in 2027 π€© π https://t.co/Sm6iOtp4YA
- Aug 14, 20262.7x their median
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- Aug 28, 20262.6x their median
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- Aug 27, 20262.6x their median
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- Aug 20, 20262.5x their median
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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.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 11 interactions against 727K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 97 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,739 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 22K times each, and 0.05% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.02% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 97 posts sampled, 5% carry an image or video and 76% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 67 interactions, about 6.1x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #aviation, #airbus, #airsial.
- What is The Points Guy's engagement rate on X?
- The Points Guy (@thepointsguy) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 97 original posts from the last 30 days against 727,009 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, The Points Guy sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 @thepointsguy have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @thepointsguy post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.23 posts per day across the measured window.