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Tim Mak engagement report

@timkmak - 196K followers on X

Measured over 35 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 10, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.013%
of 196K followers
Per impression
0.52%
5.0K views on a typical post
Reach
2.55%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
26
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.3/day
active 83% of days
Peak time
13:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 26 interactions against 196K followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 35 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 20,444 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 5.0K times each, and 0.52% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.55% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 35 posts sampled, 80% carry an image or video and 6% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 41x its own typical post.

Measured over 35 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 10, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Tim Mak's engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 27% 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 0.013%, Tim Mak sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,956 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,956 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 13:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 13:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video80% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link3% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 80% 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.
  • 3% 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 279 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

  • Aug 25, 202641x their median

    A man is shot dead by FBI agents outside a Mississippi motel. No name given. No explanation for why they were following him or why they opened fire. That's the case CNN's Isabelle Chapman spent 18 months digging into.

    994671037K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 20264.1x their median

    A few days ago we reported on empty shelves in Kyiv after Russian strikes on civilian logistics. Wanted to give you an update, since things have shifted since then: https://t.co/lBjndLzQrI

    9853013K viewsView on X
  • Sep 9, 20263.1x their median

    CNN's Isabelle Chapman spent 18 months investigating why the FBI killed a man in a Mississippi parking lot, and never explained why. Agents eventually came to believe he'd been trying to pass along information, thinking he was helping Ukraine... https://t.co/gnbUUw6wDb

    7091013K viewsView on X
  • Oct 1, 20262.3x their median

    Here’s what The Counteroffensive is reading today: The Pentagon excluded the UK, France and the Baltic states from the NATO meeting in Poland next month. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously warned that allies not supporting U.S. interests would face consequences. https://t.co/aNYparegys

    2828215.5K viewsView on X
  • Oct 3, 20262.2x their median

    Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Many young men in Ukraine are leaving the country at war, with the army struggling to fill its ranks. Petro could also flee the country and build a new life in Europe. Instead, he chose to come back. https://t.co/Pzi8ZDGgmO

    478105.8K viewsView on X
  • Sep 19, 20262.0x their median

    Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Russia pays a fortune to families when their loved ones are killed in Ukraine, bringing money to poorer regions. Serhii exposes how this is fuelling a fake boom in Russia’s poorest regions and why it’s already fading. https://t.co/xrx3nK0zFC

    445205.5K viewsView on X
  • Sep 23, 20261.7x their median

    Internet’s been out at the Counteroffensive office all day. We called the wifi company, no one picked up. Russian strikes hit data centers of some internet providers in Kyiv and the Ministry of Digital Transformation said about 100K households are dealing with the same outage.

    386006.2K viewsView on X
  • Sep 2, 20261.7x their median

    A hellish week. 7 days straight of air raid alerts, and Russia's drones got jet engines, faster, harder to catch. I'm live with @KofmanMichael , a top expert on Russia's military: can Ukraine's defenses survive this? September 2, 12:00 ET | 17:00 BST | 19:00 EEST Link in bio.

    385005.5K viewsView on X
  • Sep 28, 20261.6x their median

    Here’s what The Counteroffensive is reading today: The Ukrainian army used drones to deliver 4 tons of food to 100 locations in occupied Oleshky in the Kherson region. Regional authorities said this was one of the largest efforts to ease the local humanitarian crisis so far. https://t.co/IlA2TLkKaT

    356104.4K viewsView on X
  • Sep 24, 20261.5x their median

    The US might've fired more Patriot missiles in one week of the Iran war than Ukraine has in over 4.5 years of this whole war. The US fires 3 interceptors at once per missile, just to be safe. Ukraine used to do that too but now they're down to firing just one, if that. https://t.co/Bz9vLZKt8T

    364006.2K viewsView on X

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 26 interactions against 196K followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 35 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 20,444 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 5.0K times each, and 0.52% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.55% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 35 posts sampled, 80% carry an image or video and 6% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 41x its own typical post.

What is Tim Mak's engagement rate on X?
Tim Mak (@timkmak) has an engagement rate of 0.013%, based on the median interactions across 35 original posts from the last 30 days against 196,360 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.013%, Tim Mak sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,956 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 @timkmak have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @timkmak post?
Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.3 posts per day across the measured window.

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