Pirate Wires engagement report
@PirateWires - 1.5M followers on X
Measured over 29 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 127 interactions against 1.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 29 original posts, its engagement rate beats 33% of 3,739 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 31K times each, and 0.405% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.16% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 29 posts sampled, 83% carry an image or video, 62% are part of a thread and 10% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 38K interactions, about 298x its own typical post.
Measured over 29 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Pirate Wires's engagement rate beats 33% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 28% 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 0.009%, Pirate Wires sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.431% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 51K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 71K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 229K |
| Monday | 0% | 284K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 273K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 250K |
| Thursday | -2% | 243K |
| Friday | -3% | 251K |
| Saturday | +3% | 226K |
Best tweets
- Aug 28, 2026298x their median
Enough of this renaming lakes and gulfs. We got to the moon first. The moon shall henceforth be known as the MOON OF AMERICA.
- Aug 12, 202649x their median
Nithya Raman is getting TORCHED by her own colleagues as she tries to lie about her unmitigated failure as chair of the Homelessness and Housing Committee. āYou ran it like a lecture hall at a university, not a place of governmentā. Nithya is a scammer who ruined our city. https://t.co/kjNg5ZQ9Ra
- Aug 4, 202633x their median
As someone who now employs 20somethings, I often think about how nuts it was that my drug-addicted Vice bosses let me... edit a billion dollar website from my dorm room. I wrote about the insanity and lessons I learned from my Vice days for @PirateWires https://t.co/zFUHXnsarj
- Aug 4, 202613x their median
In the 2010s, VICE was peak hipster American culture. The brand was known for loudly breaking taboos. Its cofounder, Gavin McInnes, would go on to found the Proud Boys and get banned from basically every social media platform for āhate speech.ā By the mid-2010s, what began as an alt magazine in Montreal had landed an HBO show and convinced Rupert Murdoch and Disney to invest. It was, at one point, worth almost $6 billion. A decade later, it was bankrupt. @BCC_Mitchell, the youngest employee at Vice in 2012, takes us inside their rise and fall ā from drug-fueled editorial meetings, to the CEO throwing $1m in cash at staff during a holiday party, to the team starting to chase āwokeā for clicksā¦ ā¦to, eventually, the CEO himself abandoning what made the company famous in the first place. āVice was a cult,ā Mitchell writes. āIt was also the best business school on Earth.ā Below, the deepest insider profile yet of a 2010s media giant š
- Aug 20, 20264.5x their median
imagine being as rich as the average american communist https://t.co/yNrsQQkZjw
- Aug 19, 20264.3x their median
Continuing ābusiness as usualā while tens of thousands of homes burn to the ground a year is a complete betrayal and abandonment of our communities.Ā Make no mistake: we CAN fight these fires by making commonsense reforms ā weāre just choosing not to. https://t.co/zvqxqcQpAw
- Aug 28, 20263.8x their median
Over the last few decades, America forgot how to make things. By the time Cameron Schiller (@cameron62s), founder of Rangeview, entered adulthood, our factory towns had given way to the Rust Belt, and 22-year-olds could make ā$200,000 right out of school to more effectively steal someoneās attention by being a TikTok programmer.ā Enter: Rangeview. After coming to the conclusion that Americaās manufacturing was basically āhosed,ā and seeing how critical it is to national security, Cameron started a company to make small metal parts for (at the moment) AI data centers, drone interceptors, and energy plants. Rangeview is now partnering with the US Navy, in a rumored eight-figure contract, to produce parts for defense. It has plans for a megasite, staffed by 1,300 small-town Americans. Where others simply see industrialization, Cameron sees the world he wants to build for his future kids: āIf all you do is shuffle papers and change numbers in an Excel sheet, what connection do you feel to your neighbor? What responsibility do you feel to your country? People that can feel the product of their labor have a different sense of pride.ā āSteve Jobs talked about this a lot, but everyone prioritized serving a few more ads.ā Full story on the fight to make America actually build physical things again, via @richdewey š
- Aug 18, 20263.5x their median
good morning everyone let's accumulate some capital today
- Aug 11, 20263.3x their median
Los Angeles mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman chaired the City Councilās Housing and Homelessness Committee from January 2023 until... yesterday, when the Council president essentially fired her. What was her record like up until that point? Under Ramanās watch... ā¢ Unsheltered homelessness increased 7.9% ā¢ Another $358M was routed through troubled LAHSA, despite Raman knowing the agency was ineffective ā¢ 259 leased apartments sat empty, wasting ~$880K a month ā¢ One $62.6M program ultimately housed a total of just three people ā¢ 1,000+ Project Homekey units remained unusable ā¢ Despite years of poor results from the Inside Safe program, Raman never initiated or formally requested an audit Bottom line: Nithya Raman greenlit hundreds of millions of dollars for programs she knew had issues, failed to catch rampant waste, and watched homelessness rise. Our full investigation, via @nicolewizman1 š
- Feb 4, 20252.0x their median
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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 127 interactions against 1.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 29 original posts, its engagement rate beats 33% of 3,739 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 31K times each, and 0.405% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.16% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 29 posts sampled, 83% carry an image or video, 62% are part of a thread and 10% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 38K interactions, about 298x its own typical post.
- What is Pirate Wires's engagement rate on X?
- Pirate Wires (@PirateWires) has an engagement rate of 0.009%, based on the median interactions across 29 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,451,754 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.009%, Pirate Wires sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 @PirateWires have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 33% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @PirateWires post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.23 posts per day across the measured window.