Programming Wisdom engagement report
@CodeWisdom - 263K followers on X
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 236 interactions against 263K followers, an engagement rate of 0.09%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 57% of 21,624 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 9.5K times each, and 2.49% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.60% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 10K interactions, about 43x its own typical post.
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 30, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Programming Wisdom's engagement rate beats 57% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,624 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 69% 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 0.09%, Programming Wisdom sits above the 25th percentile of the 217,635 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.025% to 0.148%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.148% |
| 75th percentile | 0.704% |
| 90th percentile | 2.63% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 16:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 0% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 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.
- 0% 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 134 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below the same accounts' other posts.
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 20, 202643x their median
I don’t have to be convinced that LLM’s make programmers more productive. But where’s all the stuff? We’ve now had months and months of 100x or 1000x programmet productivity improvements. Where’s all the stuff they’re building?
- Nov 24, 202322x their median
"Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out." – Chris Pine
- Apr 3, 20188.0x their median
“Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. ” - Eagleson's law
- Oct 15, 20267.9x their median
“A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.” — Doug Linder
- Oct 9, 20267.4x their median
"The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it." – Pamela Zave More true now than ever.
- Apr 13, 20266.4x their median
"You don't pay engineers to write code, you pay them to understand subtleties and edges of the problem. The code is incidental." – Ted Dziuba
- Jan 5, 20247.4x their median
"I had this crazy idea that I’m going to build a database engine that does not have a server, that talks directly to disk, and ignores the data types, and if you asked any of the experts of the day, they would say, “That’s impossible. That will never work. That’s a stupid idea.” Fortunately, I didn’t know any experts, so I did it anyway." – D. Richard Hipp (SQLite creator)
- Oct 24, 20264.8x their median
“Rarely is anyone thanked for the work they did to prevent the disaster that didn’t happen.” — Mikko Hyppönen
- Apr 20, 20264.3x their median
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." – Dennis Ritchie
- Oct 27, 20235.4x their median
"In programming the hard part isn’t solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve." - Paul Graham
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 236 interactions against 263K followers, an engagement rate of 0.09%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 57% of 21,624 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 9.5K times each, and 2.49% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.60% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 10K interactions, about 43x its own typical post.
- What is Programming Wisdom's engagement rate on X?
- Programming Wisdom (@CodeWisdom) has an engagement rate of 0.09%, based on the median interactions across 39 original posts from the last 30 days against 263,297 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.09%, Programming Wisdom sits above the 25th percentile of the 217,635 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 @CodeWisdom have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 57% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,624 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 @CodeWisdom post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.