Thrifty Traveler engagement report
@thriftytraveler - 57K followers on X
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 6, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 5 interactions against 57K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 14% of 20,183 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 1.8K times each, and 0.279% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.15% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 22 interactions, about 4.4x its own typical post.
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 6, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Thrifty Traveler's engagement rate beats 14% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 5 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 12% 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 0.009%, Thrifty Traveler sits above the 10th percentile of the 202,956 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.142% |
| 75th percentile | 0.674% |
| 90th percentile | 2.54% |
| 99th percentile | 82.5% |
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 15:00 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 | 0% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 0% 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.
- 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 193 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
- Oct 2, 20264.4x their median
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- Oct 2, 20264.2x their median
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- Oct 2, 20264.0x their median
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- Sep 30, 20263.8x their median
This deal is absolutely bonkers: Just 25,000 SkyMiles to get to Australia and back. And it says something big about the current state of Delta SkyMiles, too. https://t.co/8gkYkkkuKs
- Sep 25, 20263.6x their median
Vanquish your jet lag on your next big trip abroad with these tips! https://t.co/gLgwAC9Vlk
- Sep 25, 20263.0x their median
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- Sep 25, 20262.6x their median
In today's newsletter: We analyzed 400,000-plus Hyatt award nights ... and things have only gotten worse since last spring's devaluation. Plus, Delta adds new routes to Europe, Capital One Venture eligibility rules, and more. https://t.co/cSQRNPN2iR
- Oct 5, 20262.0x their median
New data from Google Flights backs up what we've been saying for weeks: If you haven't booked your flights for the holidays, get on it ... ASAP! https://t.co/yScuPgS1f8
- Sep 30, 20262.0x their median
In today's newsletter: New data shows competition, not fuel costs, drives airfare at major US hubs. Plus: last-chance to transfer points to Hyatt, free SkyMiles transfers via Amex Offer, and more. https://t.co/f1zTge3N2E
- Sep 29, 20261.8x their median
With a big, limited-time welcome bonus, the Capital One Venture Card is on many travelers' minds. But that's just the tip of the iceberg for what makes this card so great ... especially for beginners. https://t.co/eVwa7Wx9TZ
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 5 interactions against 57K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 14% of 20,183 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 1.8K times each, and 0.279% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.15% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 22 interactions, about 4.4x its own typical post.
- What is Thrifty Traveler's engagement rate on X?
- Thrifty Traveler (@thriftytraveler) has an engagement rate of 0.009%, based on the median interactions across 39 original posts from the last 30 days against 56,895 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.009%, Thrifty Traveler sits above the 10th percentile of the 202,956 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 @thriftytraveler have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 14% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 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 @thriftytraveler post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.