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Walter Isaacson engagement report

@WalterIsaacson - 523K followers on X

Measured over 6 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 20, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.033%
of 523K followers
Per impression
0.677%
25K views on a typical post
Reach
4.86%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
172
interactions (median)
Saved
0.169%
43 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.6/day
active 67% of days
Peak time
03:00 UTC
Sunday

Early reading. We have captured 6 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 172 interactions against 523K followers, an engagement rate of 0.033%. Posts are seen about 25K times each, and 0.677% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.86% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 6 posts sampled, 17% are part of a thread and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.9K interactions, about 40x its own typical post. Only 6 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 6 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 20, 2026.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.033%, Walter Isaacson sits above the 25th percentile of the 213,282 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.025% to 0.147%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.147%
p750.698%
p902.61%
p9982.9%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 213,282 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,403 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 percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.147%
75th percentile0.698%
90th percentile2.61%
99th percentile82.9%

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 03:00 UTC, and Sunday 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: 03:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 03:00 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: Sunday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Sunday
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 video0% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link100% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 0% 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.
  • 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
  • Its average post runs 203 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

  • Apr 25, 202340x their median

    Humanity's lackadaisical response to the superintelligence threat makes me feel I'm in the movie "Don't Look Up". I just explained why here: https://t.co/9rQ1NmpY7s

    4.3K1.0K3602725.1M viewsView on X
  • May 23, 2026287x their median

    An amazing and inspiring launch by @SpaceX yesterday. Onward and upward, to the Moon. @elonmusk @NASAAdmin https://t.co/102HSL2qnB

    4.2K30510015118K viewsView on X
  • Sep 17, 202611x their median

    Dragon really is going away, so NASA is making some contingency plans for human spaceflight. Is everyone ready for Starliner supremacy? https://t.co/cgrAOIBh0N

    1.5K10524065465K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20268.7x their median

    Coonasses in space! Starbase Boudreaux! Louisiana heading to SPACE! @SpaceX @elonmusk https://t.co/V3Fzxvuqtz

    1.2K197792879K viewsView on X
  • Sep 19, 20265.0x their median

    AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations. They are sequence completion engines, internally hollow, designed to follow instructions, and accomplish goals set by humans. -- @mustafasuleyman https://t.co/nhg2KEabOo

    574951493447K viewsView on X
  • Jul 24, 20254.8x their median

    The Greatest Sentence Ever Written https://t.co/ulbMGELvGw

    528679222124K viewsView on X
  • Sep 27, 20263.9x their median

    I liked this very, very much. In a gently amusing and friendly but unsettling way, it’s the most fascinating personal discussion about what AI will do to our future and why our anxiety is rising. @NewYorker https://t.co/c4o1iD5wng

    59259103136K viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 20263.7x their median

    🏅 Surrounded by members of the Neil Armstrong family, Purdue Cradle of Astronauts, Purdue leadership and @NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman, the @SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster Landing Team received the 2026 Neil Armstrong Space Prize during a ceremony in the nation’s capital tonight. ⭐️ https://t.co/OSlCQSVxsL

    541671216115K viewsView on X
  • Jul 3, 20263.7x their median

    galleys are here! so excited for early readers to get their hands on these. https://t.co/JjYQmhEvKv

    500937177K viewsView on X
  • Oct 10, 20262.6x their median

    Now out: The updated edition of my book The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. It has a new intro arguing how the "hands-on imperative" and the Ada Lovelace/Steve Jobs belief in human-computer partnership should rule in the era of AI. https://t.co/Jjw1JGE7b3

    35952293170K 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 172 interactions against 523K followers, an engagement rate of 0.033%. Posts are seen about 25K times each, and 0.677% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.86% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 6 posts sampled, 17% are part of a thread and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.9K interactions, about 40x its own typical post. Only 6 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 Walter Isaacson's engagement rate on X?
Walter Isaacson (@WalterIsaacson) has an engagement rate of 0.033%, based on the median interactions across 6 original posts from the last 30 days against 522,532 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.033%, Walter Isaacson sits above the 25th percentile of the 213,282 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 @WalterIsaacson have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @WalterIsaacson post?
Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.6 posts per day across the measured window.

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