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Andrew Torba engagement report

@BasedTorba - 505K followers on X

Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.229%
of 505K followers
Per impression
5.74%
20K views on a typical post
Reach
3.99%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1.2K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.184%
37 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.03/day
active 23% of days
Peak time
18:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 1.2K interactions against 505K followers, an engagement rate of 0.229%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 81% of 3,862 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 20K times each, and 5.74% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.98% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 35% carry an image or video and 19% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.8K interactions, about 5.0x its own typical post.

Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Andrew Torba's engagement rate beats 81% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,862 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 93% 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 0.229%, Andrew Torba sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,582 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.081% to 0.439%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.439%
p902.10%
p99158.1%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,582 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 105,409 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.439%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile158.1%

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 18:00 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.

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: 18:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 18:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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
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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%237K
Monday0%300K
Tuesday-3%299K
Wednesday-1%256K
Thursday-1%249K
Friday-3%258K
Saturday+3%232K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 26, 20265.0x their median

    The funniest thing about YC is they act like White American men couldn’t build the basic slop apps they juiced with billions in funding. Excuse me, but we conquered the stars, invented the Internet, computing, and pretty much all of modern society. I think we can build an app.

    5.3K344801969K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20264.8x their median

    Early 20’s me going nuclear in the Y Combinator Facebook group in 2016. https://t.co/7H63Fgg5tL

    5.1K20416529122K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20263.4x their median

    President of Y Combinator btw https://t.co/VuRLCo70VC

    3.7K20868967K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 20263.1x their median

    “You support building more AI data centers across the country?!” Brother, I’m building one in my basement. https://t.co/jklghIsJGE

    3.2K1801013461K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20262.9x their median

    Glad everyone gets to see what I saw about Y Combinator a decade ago when they kicked me out. It’s loaded with foreigners who hate our country and people. https://t.co/zL4SpSIK0a

    3.1K26027635K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20262.4x their median

    Y Combinator is statistically more difficult to get into than Harvard. How many American entrepreneurs were rejected in favor of foreigners over the last decade?

    2.6K14733826K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20262.4x their median

    Garry Tan (President of Y Combinator) is a dual citizen btw.

    2.6K10932628K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20262.3x their median

    When I was in Y Combinator one time I was having a debate with one of the foreign founders and he called me an “American exceptionalist” and I was like “uhh ya, duh.” 😂

    2.5K6727127K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20261.6x their median

    This is just one batch of companies Y Combinator funded. There are multiple batches per year. They bring them here, fund them, have their VC friends fund them more, then the foreign companies hire their ethnic kin and import/hire even more of them. Imagine a decade of this across thousands of companies, billions of dollars, and tens of thousands of people.

    1.6K17748621K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 2026

    AI is like a tactical nuke sitting on the battlefield ready to be picked up and some of you are looking at it and saying “no we can’t pick that up and use it, only our enemies can do that!”

    1.5K931351623K 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 1.2K interactions against 505K followers, an engagement rate of 0.229%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 81% of 3,862 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 20K times each, and 5.74% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.98% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 35% carry an image or video and 19% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.8K interactions, about 5.0x its own typical post.

What is Andrew Torba's engagement rate on X?
Andrew Torba (@BasedTorba) has an engagement rate of 0.229%, based on the median interactions across 31 original posts from the last 30 days against 505,189 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.229%, Andrew Torba sits above the 50th 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 @BasedTorba have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 81% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,862 accounts), which puts it in the top quarter for its size 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 @BasedTorba post?
Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.03 posts per day across the measured window.

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