The Tor Project engagement report
@torproject - 464K followers on X
Measured over 7 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 7 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.
A typical post picks up 307 interactions against 464K followers, an engagement rate of 0.066%. Posts are seen about 20K times each, and 1.52% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.35% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.6 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 7 posts sampled, 57% carry an image or video, 43% are part of a thread and 57% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 616 interactions, about 2.0x its own typical post. Only 7 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
Measured over 7 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026. Recurring tag: #defcon34.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.066%, The Tor Project sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,582 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.081%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 158.1% |
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 17:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 62K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 74K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 89K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 104K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 94K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 68K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 59K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 237K |
| Monday | 0% | 300K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 299K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 256K |
| Thursday | -1% | 249K |
| Friday | -3% | 258K |
| Saturday | +3% | 232K |
Best tweets
- Aug 5, 20262.0x their median
How about upgrading your key infrastructure at #DEFCON34? 🔑 The Tor plushie has been our most popular booth item, so we expanded the line: meet the brand-new plushie keychain, making its debut at @defcon. https://t.co/Zp9jFT7I1f
- May 19, 20261.5x their median
Tor is strongest when the broader internet freedom ecosystem is healthy. In partnership with @FundingCommons we are excited to launch a web3-native crowdfunding initiative benefitting 10 internet freedom projects at https://t.co/Nqkoxt9g8T. Thank you to or generous matchfunders @cakewallet, @ZcashCommGrants, @Logos_network, and @OctantApp https://t.co/x1w3gkZEZO
- Jul 30, 2026
Don't gamble with your privacy. Use these poker chips instead! Exclusively available at our @defcon booth in Vegas. #defcon34 https://t.co/0HBEtg5WXp
- Jun 23, 2026
🟢 Tor 0.4.8 has reached End of Life. If you run a relay, maintain an Onion Service, or bundle C-Tor in an app, please upgrade to Tor 0.4.9 by September 1, 2026.🧅🌐 Read more: https://t.co/alWVvok68Z
- Aug 12, 2026
Society is crumbling with every freedom taken from us. The Museum of Civil Liberties is a reminder of what we’ve lost and a call to reclaim it. Enter the museum: https://t.co/C4Vd9oBLfY https://t.co/jhrzvx46xe
- Aug 17, 2026
The results are in: Our first crowdfunding round in partnership with @FundingCommons has raised more than $200k for projects working across privacy, censorship circumvention, secure communications, and public-interest digital infrastructure. https://t.co/LDiN4Xo6vj @web3privacy @unredacted_org @OpenObservatory @PasKoocheh @SecureDrop @open_archive @r2refresh
- Aug 26, 2026
We're always looking for more great people to join our team. Check out two new opportunities: https://t.co/FKK08YlUQH 🎨 UX Lead: guide our design team and shape more intuitive, accessible, and human-centered products. Apply by September 4. 🧭 Board of Directors: help provide strategic direction and governance for Tor’s mission. Apply by September 21.
- Jul 22, 2026
🏛️ Interdiction d'accès aux réseaux sociaux pour les moins de 15 ans : les VPN, une faille ? 🗣️ @ALehenanff, ministre déléguée à l’IA et au Numérique : « C’est une vraie faille : en Australie, deux tiers des jeunes les utilisent. Je ne suis pas naïve, ils existent et coûtent environ 100 euros par an. Il faut la complicité d’un adulte pour les financer. Si nous parvenons à protéger 60 % de nos enfants, ce sera déjà un grand pas » ➡️ Suivez le direct sur https://t.co/Iun7DcVJhi
- Aug 9, 2026
Suggested donation for all swag at the Tor booth is reduced today, the last day of @defcon ! Grab the t-shirts, badges, stickers, and plushies for less... we might even be taking offers. #defcon34 https://t.co/0BsT4DifUe
- Aug 3, 2026
🚨 New app alert! Android app called Snowflake Volunteer for those willing to help people reach the Tor network and circumvent censorship from their mobile devices. It was built open-source by Bloco, an Android app studio from Portugal. ❄️👉https://t.co/dGqgcDIcCi
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 307 interactions against 464K followers, an engagement rate of 0.066%. Posts are seen about 20K times each, and 1.52% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.35% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.6 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 7 posts sampled, 57% carry an image or video, 43% are part of a thread and 57% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 616 interactions, about 2.0x its own typical post. Only 7 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
- What is The Tor Project's engagement rate on X?
- The Tor Project (@torproject) has an engagement rate of 0.066%, based on the median interactions across 7 original posts from the last 30 days against 464,159 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.066%, The Tor Project sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,582 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 @torproject have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @torproject post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.6 posts per day across the measured window.