Tim Draper engagement report
@TimDraper - 517K followers on X
Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 123 interactions against 517K followers, an engagement rate of 0.024%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 44% of 3,774 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 25K times each, and 0.5% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.76% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.93 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 17% carry an image or video, 28% are part of a thread and 44% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.2K interactions, about 18x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #americasstartup, #bitcoin, #elsalvador.
Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026. Recurring tags: #americasstartup, #bitcoin, #elsalvador.
Compared with accounts its own size
Tim Draper's engagement rate beats 44% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 34% 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 0.024%, Tim Draper sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,654 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 | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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 Thursday 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% | 53K |
| 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% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 98K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Jul 8, 202618x their median
My partner Steve Jurvetson spent his nights and weekends launching rockets. Totally obsessed. So I told him, "Find us the best rocket company." Three weeks later he came back. "The best rocket company is Elon's." My first reaction: "Isn't he supposed to be running Tesla?" We already had a big investment in Tesla, but we heard him out. In that meeting, you could feel it. His mission in life was to make humanity multi-planetary. Tesla was a means to an end. So we became the first money in after Elon's own $100 million and an investment from Founders Fund. Just before we invested, the first few rockets had exploded on the launch pad.. but then a Falcon 1 lifted off and worked. It launched one small satellite for Malaysia, and then it was retired. Falcon 9 was the true workhorse, which good customers came for later over time. Eventually there were contracts everywhere, and Elon Musk began his journey to make us multiplanetary. A mission like "we're going to Mars" attracts the best engineers in the world. People take a new job to solve a problem they'll tell their grandkids about. When Kennedy said we choose to go to the moon, the technologies that came out of that effort changed everything on Earth. Same thing is happening now. Starlink exists because Elon Musk is building to get us to Mars. If the mission is grand enough, innovations that happen along the way will enhance and may even redefine the business. Thanks to Bonnie Blockchain for having me on!
- Aug 11, 202612x their median
First they’ll say, “We accept Bitcoin.” Then they’ll say, “We only accept Bitcoin.” Then there will be a run on the banks. Then the world as we know it will fundamentally change forever as Bitcoin goes infinite against the US dollar. https://t.co/Gl75HihujT
- Aug 14, 20266.7x their median
Hey all, We are selling our place in San Francisco. Great location, great views, beautiful place, but we weren’t using it. Check it out. Listing at $5.2 million. https://t.co/YazPo8yXaZ
- Jul 30, 20264.8x their median
After the automobile, people still rode horses for a while. After the locomotive, people still carried coal in wheelbarrows. After the smart phone, people still used land lines But eventually, the best technology became ubiquitous. Same with Bitcoin and the US dollar. We’re watching the same story unfold today with Bitcoin and the US Dollar. Full thoughts with @Benzinga in the comments.
- Jul 14, 20264.0x their median
I loved Brian Armstrong from the moment he walked into my office, but I had already invested in CoinLab, so I didn’t invest at first. But my son, Adam did. I decided Coinbase would have too long a road to success, so I passed. Ouch. I thought retail crypto was too far away, but my son Adam disagreed and wrote Brian his first check. I followed suit shortly after and got in on the next round. Coinbase has become a household name and dominates the world of cryptocurrency. Coinbase now has over 120 million customers who use Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for commerce, finance, trading, and value storage. The return from Coinbase alone nearly doubled our entire Draper Associates Fund V. Brian has been an unwavering north star in Bitcoin and crypto. His innovation and creativity know no bounds. The lesson for founders: If the first VC says no... try asking one of their sons or daughters... some call mine the new VC Scions.
- Jul 8, 20262.7x their median
Last year, we proved what was possible. Today, we're accelerating what comes next. Venus Aerospace has closed a $91M Series B led by @MercuryFund, with participation from @LockheedMartin Ventures, to transform our flight-proven RDRE into deployable propulsion systems for defense and space. The next chapter starts now. Read more: https://t.co/TgG0PBHdAi
- Dec 6, 20252.3x their median
Not every day @TimDraper, the man behind @DraperVC and @DFJvc, acknowledges you as a leader in AI truth-seeking. We're here to build the truth layer he knows the world needs. This is just the beginning. https://t.co/kcftiTZqys
- Jul 7, 20262.2x their median
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- Jul 9, 20261.8x their median
In honor of Elon Musk, on the advent of the SpaceX IPO, I went to Nashville and recorded this version of The Riskmaster with some of the best musicians in the world. It is heartfelt, fun and engaging. Have a listen. https://t.co/Jqj1BtHrlG
- Aug 27, 20261.8x their median
Most VCs prefer serial entrepreneurs. I don't. I back first-time entrepreneurs more than most. Yes, it's riskier, but the returns can be much bigger. Second-time entrepreneurs are usually better operationally. They make sure they raise the RIGHT amount of money. They're ruthless about hiring. But first-time entrepreneurs? They tend to raise too much money. They feel like they have to hire everybody. Then they hit the wall and wonder why the next round didn't come as easily. Second-time entrepreneurs who've hit the wall know to keep it thin until product-market fit. Grow organically. Don't rely on the venture capital marketplace because it comes and goes. I like first-time entrepreneurs making this their career. This might be the one they were meant to be. I like second-time entrepreneurs going after something entirely different. Not recreating their old business. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison… first-time entrepreneurs.
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 123 interactions against 517K followers, an engagement rate of 0.024%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 44% of 3,774 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 25K times each, and 0.5% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.76% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.93 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 17% carry an image or video, 28% are part of a thread and 44% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.2K interactions, about 18x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #americasstartup, #bitcoin, #elsalvador.
- What is Tim Draper's engagement rate on X?
- Tim Draper (@TimDraper) has an engagement rate of 0.024%, based on the median interactions across 18 original posts from the last 30 days against 516,813 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.024%, Tim Draper sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,654 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 @TimDraper have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 44% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @TimDraper post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.93 posts per day across the measured window.