EnglishReal Python is on Twitter (X) as @realpython, with 267,540 followers and 85,485 posts. A typical post draws 9 interactions, an engagement rate of 0.003% per follower. It has been on X since August 2012, an account age of 14 years.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 9 interactions against 268K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 114 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 20,688 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 3.5K times each, and 0.257% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.31% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline.
Measured over 114 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026. Recurring tags: #python, #podcast, #coding.
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