Wes Bos engagement report
@wesbos - 438K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 199 interactions against 438K followers, an engagement rate of 0.045%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 54% of 3,882 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 26K times each, and 0.755% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.02% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 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 Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 73% carry an image or video, 5% are part of a thread and 18% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 85x its own typical post.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Wes Bos's engagement rate beats 54% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 43% 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 0.045%, Wes Bos 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 13:00 UTC, and Friday 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
- Jul 30, 202685x their median
🫠 kid threw a car at our 70” Samsung frame TV and now it has a permanent white spot / raised knick in the polarizer Has anyone fixed this? (In child or tv) https://t.co/x560Sxq0sf
- Aug 26, 202628x their median
Y'all need to stop SLACKING on your photo upload UIs If I upload a HEIC, AVIF or literally any format. JUST CONVERT IT IN THE BROWSER It's the image is too large for you, RESIZE IT IN THE BROWSER If I drag and image anywhere in your application HANDLE IT INSTEAD OF REFRESHING THE PAGE We have the technology! Unacceptable
- Aug 25, 202618x their median
We've been dealing with an incredible amount of abuse on ClinePass recently as well. That's 8 billion with a B. Thank you @stripe 🙏 https://t.co/2UyXsotDOQ
- Aug 14, 20269.6x their median
This is the most important video I've ever made. In this, I explore the negative and positive mental health effects of AI coding, with data and expert commentary. https://t.co/GPx7sJaJ5y
- Aug 21, 20268.9x their median
I added a a stick shift to my computer. It's like Raycast but for truckers. Window management, LLM Model selection, Shift up/down for reasoning levels. It feels right https://t.co/Hoy9Amyqif
- Aug 24, 20268.4x their median
After about a ~decade with atomic CSS frameworks (BuzzFeed Solid, Basscss, and then finally Tailwind), I think I'm convinced now that Stylex is superior for agents. Stylex constraints lead to greater consistency and correctness as your codebase grows. I do still think Tailwind is the ideal human DSL for styling, but in a world where I'm barely touching CSS/class names by hand, the tradeoffs have changed. Again, if I were still hand writing code, Tailwind still wins, but we're not doing that anymore.
- Aug 13, 20267.0x their median
🚨 Solid 2.0 has reached Release Candidate! 🎉🥳 Async is first-class — computations return promises, the graph suspends and resumes itself. Plus optimistic mutations and a reactive core rebuilt from scratch. The Big <Reveal> 👇 https://t.co/OE5hTPVKYX 1/3 https://t.co/DG38txTlep
- Aug 25, 20263.8x their median
WebMCP landed in ChatGPT today Websites expose tools, your agent can use them, or you can just use the app like a human. Probably both! I'm calling it Clicks-n-clankers™ https://t.co/vRiQRM7D9E
- Aug 28, 20263.4x their median
Holy smokes they arrested the shai hulud guys that got tanstack. Australians of course https://t.co/GUCgFwIMM6
- Aug 21, 20263.4x their median
I made this for Sentry Hackweek. I'll be doing a deep dive soon, but it's a personal recorder that sends my transcripts to a router that determines if the text is a simply a todo, reminder OR if it's work. If it's work, Pi agents get started in it right away, coding or just doing research. Built using: ESP32-S3: https://t.co/wEai0hRAV9 1100mAh Battery: https://t.co/Uxgtc1HNlU https://t.co/ywTjOUZdqR for all agent work https://t.co/VRhJuaJ9E5 for deterministic workflows, automations https://t.co/PgdQbjb9o3 to help design the case + a ton of sandpaper to get it smooth. Also a adafruit mic on there
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 199 interactions against 438K followers, an engagement rate of 0.045%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 54% of 3,882 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 26K times each, and 0.755% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.02% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 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 Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 73% carry an image or video, 5% are part of a thread and 18% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 85x its own typical post.
- What is Wes Bos's engagement rate on X?
- Wes Bos (@wesbos) has an engagement rate of 0.045%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 438,358 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.045%, Wes Bos 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 @wesbos have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 54% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 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 @wesbos post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.23 posts per day across the measured window.