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Jeff Dean engagement report

@JeffDean - 520K followers on X

Measured over 2 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.077%
of 520K followers
Per impression
0.127%
314K views on a typical post
Reach
60.6%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
400
interactions (median)
Saved
0.103%
324 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.57/day
active 30% of days
Peak time
00:00 UTC
Tuesday

Early reading. We have captured 2 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 400 interactions against 520K followers, an engagement rate of 0.077%. Posts are seen about 314K times each, and 0.127% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 60.4% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 2 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 7.7K interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Only 2 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 2 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.077%, Jeff Dean sits above the 25th percentile of the 41,976 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.013% to 0.083%.

p100.002%
p250.013%
p50 (median)0.083%
p750.448%
p902.08%
p99142.9%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 41,976 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 84,062 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 percentile0.013%
50th percentile0.083%
75th percentile0.448%
90th percentile2.08%
99th percentile142.9%

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 00:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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: 00:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 00:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%59K
01:00 UTC-2%60K
02:00 UTC-3%58K
03:00 UTC-4%62K
04:00 UTC-6%50K
05:00 UTC-5%49K
06:00 UTC-5%56K
07:00 UTC-5%60K
08:00 UTC-4%70K
09:00 UTC-4%81K
10:00 UTC-3%83K
11:00 UTC-3%91K
12:00 UTC-2%100K
13:00 UTC-2%109K
14:00 UTC-3%113K
15:00 UTC-2%116K
16:00 UTC-3%113K
17:00 UTC-3%105K
18:00 UTC-2%98K
19:00 UTC-2%93K
20:00 UTC-1%87K
21:00 UTC-1%77K
22:00 UTC-2%66K
23:00 UTC-1%60K
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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%256K
Monday+1%328K
Tuesday-2%354K
Wednesday-4%320K
Thursday-2%271K
Friday-3%276K
Saturday+3%250K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Dec 3, 201819x their median

    In April, '17, @jsomers of @NewYorker reached out & said he wanted to do a small profile of me & my longtime colleague Sanjay Ghemawat, watch us work for a few hours, maybe dinner, etc. It came out today. I think it captures our working style really well. https://t.co/cRSMiFfwAP

    5.9K1.2K404245View on X
  • Jun 12, 20267.2x their median

    Today on the blog, we discuss a pathway for the second life of phones through the exploration of “phone cluster computing”, which can directly reduce the environmental footprint of computing by avoiding the need for further raw material extraction. More →https://t.co/FFUNjfaEm5 https://t.co/Fvs7ju2r0Y

    2.3K2901101431.2M viewsView on X
  • Jun 11, 20266.9x their median

    What can a neuron compute? Real biological neurons are complex, but how capable are they? Using a new method, we found that a single cortical neuron can classify cats vs dogs, recognize spoken words, and solve 10-bit parity, all tasks thought to require entire networks. (1/15) https://t.co/SqQKjrEjUF

    2.2K4235773380K viewsView on X
  • Jul 20, 20265.6x their median

    Yesterday I was fortunate enough to go to my first-ever World Cup game, with my long-time colleagues/friends @OriolVinyalsML and @quocleix and their spouses). We were sitting in the corner area and had a quite good view of the goal! I present to you a 43 second multi-part drama filled with emotion: The initial promising-looking cross coming in, but looking overhit Nico Williams cleverly knocking it down at the back post into a dangerous area Ferran Torres striking it cleanly into the roof of the net The crowd rising as one (forcing me to stand up as well) The elation of the Spanish players racing off the bench to celebrate The dejection of the Argentinian players, their defense having finally been breached in extra time The elation of my Spanish colleague Oriol and his wife Meire next to me (he and I are both Barça fans, so it was nice to see a Barça player score the winning goal) The entire stadium reacting Whew!

    2.1K47606192K viewsView on X
  • Jul 17, 20264.6x their median

    After the K3 drop, Huawei has now released a real 950 SuperPoD 1 EFLOPS fp8 & 2 EFLOPS fp4 256TB of unified memory https://t.co/luehBqDogu

    1.6K1484159449K viewsView on X
  • May 31, 20264.3x their median

    This is not simply a new pancreatic cancer drug. It is a reminder that even “undruggable” biology can become treatable with persistence. Daraxonrasib doubled median OS vs chemotherapy in RAS G12 metastatic pancreatic cancer: 13.2 vs 6.6 months. A remarkable ASCO moment. #ASCO26 @DrChoueiri @TiansterZhang @CathyEngMD @montypal @tompowles1 @brian_rini @cdanicas @GlopesMd @PGrivasMDPhD @nataliagandur @yekeduz_emre @neerajaiims @ASCO @ONCOassist @OpenMedicineHQ @MedwatchKate @scserendipity1 @CParkMD @urotoday @OncLive @crisbergerot @urologysummit @SuyogCancer @Larvol @IMG_Oncologists

    1.4K2802453215K viewsView on X
  • Jun 18, 20263.4x their median

    My @Google colleagues @NormJouppi, Sridhar Lakshmanamurthy, Cliff Young, and David Patterson recently wrote a paper that will appear in the July/August 2026 edition of @ieeemicro titled "Google's Training Supercomputers from TPU v2 to Ironwood: Architectural Stability, Scale, Resilience, Power Efficiency, and Sustainability Across Five Generations". It's chock full of interesting data about the evolution of TPU chip generations, as well as how workloads at Google have transformed over time (hint: lots more transformer-based models!), and how the generations have gotten ~30X more energy efficient per flop. Lots of changes over these generations: Air cooling in TPUv2 to water cooling in TPUv3 onwards 2D to 3D torus-based interconnects 30X improvement TFLOPS/Watt 256 chips (TPUv2) to 9216 chips (Ironwood) per pod Read the full paper: https://t.co/D5NFYFv19V

    1.2K1603311132K viewsView on X
  • Jun 13, 20262.0x their median

    I enjoyed giving the commencement address at the University of Washington Allen School @uwcse graduation this evening. So many happy students and their families and friends! Congratulations to all the graduates of the class of 2026! 🎓 Thanks for inviting me, @MBalazinska! https://t.co/ulXPe8Ruiv

    73827212166K viewsView on X
  • Jul 30, 20261.7x their median

    In 2001, @JeffDean and Sanjay Ghemawat did the math and realized Google’s entire search index would fit in RAM — then shipped it in a few days, and search got fast. In 2013, another napkin calculation showed that three minutes of daily speech recognition per user would require doubling Google’s server fleet. That one became the TPU. At Startup School 2026, Google’s Chief Scientist talks with YC’s @sdianahu through the thought experiments behind both, why inference hardware is the next specialization, and where two or three people in a room can still win. 00:07 — Are AI Models Already Junior Engineers? 01:44 — AI Systems That Improve Themselves 02:40 — The Google Search Breakthrough That Changed Everything 04:38 — AI Agents Will Run for Weeks 05:58 — The Napkin Math That Led to TPUs 09:20 — How to Find Breakthrough Ideas 10:25 — The AI Engineer's New Mental Model 12:33 — Why AI Is Really an Energy Problem 16:11 — Context Engineering Is the Next Frontier 19:46 — The Skill That Made AI Better at Optimization 22:13 — Why Long-Running Agents Fail 25:21 — Where Startups Can Still Beat Google 31:19 — How to Become an AI-Native Founder 36:36 — Question Your Biggest Assumptions 42:08 — AI That Builds Better AI 50:02 — Build Something That Truly Matters

    551703515255K viewsView on X
  • Jun 9, 2026

    Speech translation has been one of the longest-running ML efforts at Google, and we’ve come a long way. Gemini 3.5 Live Translate is our latest speech-to-speech model, supporting 70+ languages. It enables more natural conversations across languages in everyday products and apps. Here’s an example of how partners at @InsideGrab are helping connect travelers with drivers. 🚗 Rolling out in Google Translate and via the Live API in @GoogleAIStudio.

    3714628440K 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 400 interactions against 520K followers, an engagement rate of 0.077%. Posts are seen about 314K times each, and 0.127% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 60.4% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 2 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 7.7K interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Only 2 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 Jeff Dean's engagement rate on X?
Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) has an engagement rate of 0.077%, based on the median interactions across 2 original posts from the last 30 days against 519,659 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.077%, Jeff Dean sits above the 25th percentile of the 41,976 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 @JeffDean have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @JeffDean post?
Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.57 posts per day across the measured window.

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