David Pogue engagement report
@Pogue - 1.2M followers on X
Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 44 interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 23% of 3,809 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 13K times each, and 0.354% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.07% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.47 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 90% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.4K interactions, about 213x its own typical post.
Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tag: #bookbreaks.
Compared with accounts its own size
David Pogue's engagement rate beats 23% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 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 25% 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 0.004%, David Pogue sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,960 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 | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 159.8% |
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 01:00 UTC, and Monday 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% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 102K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 233K |
| Monday | 0% | 292K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 284K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 246K |
| Friday | -3% | 255K |
| Saturday | +3% | 229K |
Best tweets
- May 23, 2026213x their median
Steve Jobs roasting Windows for having 17 different versions 😂💀 (WWDC 2007) https://t.co/5thbGzYM3D
- Aug 23, 20269.6x their median
Here's my cover story for "@CBSSunday Morning" today: The explosion of ticks in the U.S.—and the new(ish) disease alpha-gal syndrome, which gives you a violent allergy to MEAT (beef, pork, lamb, veal, etc.). I will never again walk in nature without the special socks! https://t.co/b9TRczBN68
- Jun 24, 20266.6x their median
I wonder if it occurred to the @NYTimes's photographer that the Apple Watch can't measure your health data if it's worn (a) over two layers of clothing, and (b) on your ankle. https://t.co/A6jf5f9lsH
- Jul 25, 20265.8x their median
Why did an American gate agent lie about the overhead bins being full—when they were 80% empty? In my new column, an airline pilot, a baggage specialist, and a gate manager explain the real reason behind the deception. https://t.co/PzOQolK7Qv https://t.co/qFPPK8cJMo
- Jul 15, 20263.9x their median
For the first time, MacOS 27 can record screen video WITH AUDIO. Which means you can capture bits of YouTube videos, for example... Game changer! (Press command-shift-5 to start.) https://t.co/q8MbqpRakK
- Jun 30, 20263.0x their median
Apple has said that a key goal of OS 27 is simply fixing bugs and making everything run better. And so I asked You, the People, to submit your own bugs for Apple to fix. My new “Pogue’s Posts” column presents the result of that experiment. https://t.co/6JApEJH88u
- May 25, 20262.9x their median
If you have an Apple Watch, you really need to see my “Pogue’s Posts” column today. I've rounded up the EIGHT BEST TIPS from the 200 submitted by my readers, and at least a couple of them will be game-changers for you! No paywall, no ads. https://t.co/y2p0MrP6tB
- Jun 28, 20262.8x their median
For an upcoming “Pogue’s Posts” column: What are some broken elements in macOS or iOS? Not just "here's what I'd do differently," but bugs or clearly, demonstrably counterintuitive design? Thank you!
- Aug 14, 20262.5x their median
We watched this week's eclipse from a @Sciam cruise ship off the coast of Spain. The eclipse was staggering—but it was only Act 1. We then watched as the CRESCENT SUN sank into the ocean!! It was so sci-fi, so mind-frying... https://t.co/n7g9ZTjB2K
- Aug 7, 20261.7x their median
In April, I got a strange email, inviting me to buy a 105-year-old photo album supposedly created by my grandmother. It had "SCAM" written all over it—but it was actually something much weirder. My new story for @NYmag (New York Magazine). https://t.co/HQojB7pgXg
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
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 44 interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 23% of 3,809 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 13K times each, and 0.354% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.07% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.47 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 90% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.4K interactions, about 213x its own typical post.
- What is David Pogue's engagement rate on X?
- David Pogue (@Pogue) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 10 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,176,970 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.004%, David Pogue sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,960 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 @Pogue have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 23% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 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 @Pogue post?
- Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.47 posts per day across the measured window.