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Zed engagement report

@zeddotdev - 86K followers on X

Measured over 28 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 5, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.235%
of 86K followers
Per impression
1.18%
17K views on a typical post
Reach
19.9%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
200
interactions (median)
Saved
0.23%
39 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.1/day
active 43% of days
Peak time
19:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 200 interactions against 86K followers, an engagement rate of 0.235%. Measured over 28 original posts, its engagement rate beats 67% of 19,933 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 17K times each, and 1.18% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 19.8% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 28 posts sampled, 64% carry an image or video, 21% are part of a thread and 29% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.8K interactions, about 44x its own typical post.

Measured over 28 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 5, 2026. Recurring tag: #zededitor.

Compared with accounts its own size

Zed's engagement rate beats 67% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,933 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 46% 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 0.235%, Zed sits above the 50th percentile of the 201,665 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.142% to 0.671%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.142%
p750.671%
p902.53%
p9982.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 201,665 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,911 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 percentile0.142%
75th percentile0.671%
90th percentile2.53%
99th percentile82.5%

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 19:00 UTC, and Thursday 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: 19:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 19:00 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video64% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link29% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 64% 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.
  • 29% 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 216 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

  • Sep 24, 202644x their median

    Was wondering where my disk space went. Therefore this exists now. You can simply wish software into existence. https://t.co/hd1uCGo9ck

    7.8K2625791631.3M viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 202620x their median

    How 90% of the UI looks nowadays https://t.co/tHQMJPllIs

    3.8K749126241K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202614x their median

    I love how many people are attaching to the "half-bounch" startup time metric. I used to do paid macOS dev ~20 years ago and most macOS devs I knew then used the bounce metric! Back then multiple bounces was the norm due to HDDs. One bounce really wasn't possible until SSDs. We've lost this obsession and its time to bring it back.

    2.7K526062788K viewsView on X
  • Sep 17, 202614x their median

    Timeline today be like https://t.co/eULMwWxVO1

    2.7K87211351K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 202613x their median

    Today weโ€™re introducing Delta. Delta is a multiplayer environment for coding with agents and reviewing what they build, powered by DeltaDB. The first invites to our private beta are going out now. https://t.co/MDQMCyq1FP https://t.co/eu8uvRQcV6

    2.3K1766783293K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 202612x their median

    ๐Ÿš€ Zed v1.17 is out! Zed now previews CSV, TSV, PSV, and SSV files as interactive tables. You can sort and resize columns, then filter rows by selected values. Thanks HalavicH! https://t.co/QOonsNQWcl

    2.3K99702573K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 202612x their median

    Antigravity IDE extensions are here! Now available for Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Zed, and JetBrains. https://t.co/n4Dmq8nbuU

    2.0K15810462290K viewsView on X
  • May 27, 20266.6x their median

    I'm going to use my AI psychosis to fix clouds for agents. Someone else needs to use their psychosis to fix source control. I would do it myself but I'm already too deep on the cloud thing. GitHub is dying and git is not the right primitive. Will dump some thoughts here.

    2.1K4013631411K viewsView on X
  • Sep 17, 20269.8x their median

    ๐Ÿš€ Zed v1.20 is out! Zed now offers an optional cursor movement animation, enabled by setting `cursor_animation.enabled` to `true`, closing a longstanding issue with 274 ๐Ÿ‘ reactions. Thanks tiny-paris! https://t.co/OZHFGzoe4O

    1.8K588440102K viewsView on X
  • Sep 16, 20267.3x their median

    Delta is now in public beta. Itโ€™s a multiplayer environment for coding with agents and reviewing what they build, with every code change linked to the conversation that produced it. Anyone can download it today on macOS, Linux, and Windows: https://t.co/R2N6CS23CO https://t.co/V1Z8mushCR

    1.3K915843124K 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.

Recurring topics

#zededitor

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 200 interactions against 86K followers, an engagement rate of 0.235%. Measured over 28 original posts, its engagement rate beats 67% of 19,933 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 17K times each, and 1.18% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 19.8% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 28 posts sampled, 64% carry an image or video, 21% are part of a thread and 29% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.8K interactions, about 44x its own typical post.

What is Zed's engagement rate on X?
Zed (@zeddotdev) has an engagement rate of 0.235%, based on the median interactions across 28 original posts from the last 30 days against 85,709 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.235%, Zed sits above the 50th percentile of the 201,665 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 @zeddotdev have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 67% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,933 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 @zeddotdev post?
Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.1 posts per day across the measured window.

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