Eric Balchunas engagement report
@EricBalchunas - 611K followers on X
Measured over 26 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 102 interactions against 611K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 26 original posts, its engagement rate beats 40% of 3,791 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 30K times each, and 0.347% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.83% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 26 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video, 27% are part of a thread and 12% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 124x its own typical post.
Measured over 26 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026. Recurring tag: #etfiq.
Compared with accounts its own size
Eric Balchunas's engagement rate beats 40% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 27% 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 0.017%, Eric Balchunas sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,759 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.4% |
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 11:00 UTC, and Saturday 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 98K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
Best tweets
- Aug 15, 2026124x their median
Caitlin Clark put on a masterclass vs the Wings MVP her https://t.co/r3jBLZ1MiY
- Jul 7, 202623x their median
I published a note today that I've been thinking about for months.. About how the US stock market has arguably become too big and too imp to fail.. It's basically America's retirement fund now and poss even the savior of social security which is expected to run out of money in less than 10yrs -Curr 55% of ppl own stocks, by far most in world. And w/ Trump Accounts bringing in 28 million add'l americans into stock ownership the vast majority of ppl (incl Top 1% (who own HALF of stock mkt), middle class and lower income) will have financial interest in the health of stock mkt and they're all voters = the political pressure to keep stocks out of a prolonged bear market is going to be very powerful. -As such I think there's good chance the Fed will buy equity ETFs in the next major downturn to support market and it will be common practice going fwd. China and Japan already do this. They may even target certain sectors or Capex cos with the purchases. -This is a massive variable that I feel like is a blind spot among the experts out there and why the bears get run over time and time again altho I think investors are onto it as evidenced by the persistent flows into ETFs during pullbacks as well as a survey of 1000 ppl showing 3/4 of them are confident the Fed will bail out markets in next crisis. -This is just one byproduct of the 'Nothing Stops This Train' monetary supply explosion and debt extravaganza sweeping the world but esp in US which at this point feels irreversable.. Thoughts? lol
- Aug 25, 202615x their median
Another sign the debasement trade is starting to replace AI mania: Store of value frenemies $GLD & $IBIT are back in the Top 10 most traded ETFs, knocking down some of the semiconductor ETFs, which took over the list all summer. They're still punching above weight but not nearly as much.
- Aug 22, 202612x their median
I’m about 15 minutes into Project Hail Mary and I think Director Jail should be real.
- Aug 16, 202610x their median
Heavenly scenes here today on the panhandle. Air temp and water temp are both 85 degrees. About as Caribbean as you can get in US. https://t.co/6nBnqywh4W
- Aug 24, 20269.6x their median
Excited to announce that @JSeyff and I have a new book coming out this fall called "Both Sides of the Coin" which is available for pre-order now. We thought it was time for a fresh look at bitcoin/crypto post-ETF and sought to write a fair and balanced book for everyday TradFi investors as well as crypto natives that tracks the risks, rewards, evolution and financialization of the asset class as well as the growing debasement/debt problem. We took great pains to cover as much as ground as poss in this 370-page book, no stone was left unturned. Here's a look at the chapters: 1. Bitcoin in a Nutshell (much more of an engineering feat than most ppl think) 2. The Currency Debasement Problem (inflation, debt etc is crucial for anyone hoping to understand the ‘purpose’ of btc as well as the rise of socialist politicians) 3. Store of Value Smackdown (btc vs gold) 4. Bitcoin in a Portfolio (hot sauce, for now) 5. The Filing Heard 'Round the World (the untold inside story of how Blk/Larry Fink evolved enough to file for ETF) 6. The ETF Solution (ETFs have solved for good bitcoin’s ‘intermediary problem’ eg FTX, Coldcard etc) 7. Suitcoiners (wall street/govt adoption, which OGs should embrace not dump on) 8. Alt Coins (top 12-ish cryptos explained in detail as well as how to evaluate them) 9. A Tokenized Future (the blockchain-ization of wall st and beyond)
- Aug 14, 20268.9x their median
Wild, wild stuff: Filing to register 32 ETFs tied to each NHL franchise. Each ETF will invest in futures contracts tied to the CME FSPI index for the team concerned. The index measures 'cumulative team performance'. Example description shown. https://t.co/UWOOx5NX4L https://t.co/VAMeBxWVde
- Aug 24, 20267.8x their median
Bitcoin ETFs took just about $2b last week- their best week since the Good Ol Days of Oct 2025 as price went from $64k to $77k in a New York minute (that counts as God candle yeah?). Anyway, this is one of the benefits of a commodity in a constant state of supply shock. https://t.co/B63AUp3G8k
- Aug 19, 20262.1x their median
Doing a different kind of trolling today.. 🎣 https://t.co/0xzG9aWgaE
- Aug 15, 20261.8x their median
A tale of two skies.. snapped this today down in Miramar Beach Fla. There’s a stock market metaphor in here somewhere. https://t.co/mhXDsUTKmw
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.
Recurring topics
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 102 interactions against 611K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 26 original posts, its engagement rate beats 40% of 3,791 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 30K times each, and 0.347% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.83% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 26 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video, 27% are part of a thread and 12% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 124x its own typical post.
- What is Eric Balchunas's engagement rate on X?
- Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) has an engagement rate of 0.017%, based on the median interactions across 26 original posts from the last 30 days against 610,693 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.017%, Eric Balchunas sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,759 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 @EricBalchunas have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 40% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 @EricBalchunas post?
- Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.37 posts per day across the measured window.