EnglishArs Technica is on Twitter (X) as @arstechnica, with 2,564,748 followers and 152,860 posts. It gained 5,044 followers in the last 7 days and 50,716 in the last 30 days. A typical post draws 18 interactions, an engagement rate of 0.001% per follower.
Insights
Over the last 30 days @arstechnica gained 50,716 followers (+1.98%). In the last 7 days the change was +5,044 followers. Its follower growth this week outpaces 84% of tracked News accounts. Ars Technica is on a 21-day follower growth streak. Its strongest tracked day added +68,990 followers on Jul 19, 2026. At the current pace, @arstechnica is on track to reach 3.0M followers in about 37 weeks.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 18 interactions against 2.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 323 original posts, its engagement rate beats 9% of 21,397 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 9.5K times each, and 0.189% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.371% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline.
Measured over 323 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 29, 2026.
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On a 21-day follower growth streak. Best tracked day: +69K followers on 2026-07-19.
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