Tim Cook engagement report
@tim_cook - 20M followers on X
Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 16K interactions against 20M followers, an engagement rate of 0.079%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 81% of 3,774 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 816K times each, and 1.92% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.12% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.37 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 80% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 111K interactions, about 7.1x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #shotoniphone, #appleevent, #nationalparkweek.
Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #shotoniphone, #appleevent, #nationalparkweek.
Compared with accounts its own size
Tim Cook's engagement rate beats 81% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 75% 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 0.079%, Tim Cook sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 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 14:00 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% | 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% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 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% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Apr 21, 20267.1x their median
I want to thank everyone for the outpouring of love and thank you for believing in me to lead the company that has always put you at the center of our work. This is not goodbye. It’s a hello to John and I can’t wait for you to get to know him like I do! 🙏 https://t.co/Q43QDG3UmZ
- Aug 25, 20265.1x their median
The new Mac mini is here. Small in size. Big on performance. From everyday productivity to all things AI, it can help you do it all. https://t.co/GopxcHM5od
- Apr 11, 20263.3x their median
Congratulations to Artemis II on a successful mission! You captured the wonders of space and our planet beautifully, taking iPhone photography to new heights, and we’re grateful you shared it with the world. Your work continues to inspire us all to think different. Welcome home!
- Jul 19, 20263.2x their median
What a final! Congratulations Spain!
- Jun 30, 20263.0x their median
Happy Pride! https://t.co/eP84RdkaUF
- Apr 1, 20263.4x their median
50 years of Apple, 50 years of innovation. Thank you to our teams, our users, and everyone who’s been part of the journey. #Apple50 https://t.co/YYkMN24Vzc
- Apr 28, 20262.8x their median
Welcome back coach! Ted Lasso returns August 5 on @AppleTV! https://t.co/Rg52Pu0lbS
- Aug 28, 20262.5x their median
Our thoughts are with all those affected by the tragic flash floods and mudslides in Nepal and Tibet. Apple is making a donation to support relief and rebuilding efforts on the ground.
- Jul 4, 20262.2x their median
Happy birthday, America! I love this remarkable country, which was built on the idea that anyone can change the world. For 250 years, our country has been a testament to the power of possibility. Let’s keep building extraordinary things together.
- Jun 8, 20262.2x 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 16K interactions against 20M followers, an engagement rate of 0.079%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 81% of 3,774 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 816K times each, and 1.92% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.12% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.37 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 80% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 111K interactions, about 7.1x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #shotoniphone, #appleevent, #nationalparkweek.
- What is Tim Cook's engagement rate on X?
- Tim Cook (@tim_cook) has an engagement rate of 0.079%, based on the median interactions across 10 original posts from the last 30 days against 19,808,521 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.079%, Tim Cook sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 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 @tim_cook have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 81% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @tim_cook post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.37 posts per day across the measured window.