Nassim Nicholas Taleb engagement report
@nntaleb - 1.2M followers on X
Measured over 25 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.3K interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.109%. Measured over 25 original posts, its engagement rate beats 74% of 3,899 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 164K times each, and 0.767% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 14.2% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 25 posts sampled, 76% carry an image or video, 20% are part of a thread and 8% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 42K interactions, about 33x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #fooledbyrandomness, #hindrajabfoundation, #kolmogorovcomplexity.
Measured over 25 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #fooledbyrandomness, #hindrajabfoundation, #kolmogorovcomplexity.
Compared with accounts its own size
Nassim Nicholas Taleb's engagement rate beats 74% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 44% 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 0.109%, Nassim Nicholas Taleb sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,701 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.081% to 0.439%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 156.3% |
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 19:00 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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Aug 29, 202633x their median
It’s confirmed. The president is insane. https://t.co/gJfV4NtQQK
- May 9, 202618x their median
What does terrorism mean to you? If it’s no double-tap killings of paramedics, journalists, and today a 12 year old girl, then what is it? Westerners, where is your humanity? Cameraman: @aliezzedine7 https://t.co/ntXIwz4s6H
- Jul 30, 20247.6x their median
Dear enemies,The Black Swan is now the most influential (that is, discussed/mentioned) 21st C book. While almost all books have a half-life between 2 and 6 months, it does not appear to have a half-life. #Lindy [Same with other 4 books in the Incerto. Graph is US only]
- Aug 22, 20267.2x their median
Perhaps one of the greatest modern miracles of society is how safe flying has become. https://t.co/79iD4iqa1M
- Aug 25, 20264.7x their median
I just discovered an awesome compression algorithm: your 4000 word blog post can be compressed down to the prompt you gave Claude to write it.
- Aug 29, 20264.3x their median
The Palestinians are the closest descendants of ancient Israelites as well as other original inhabitants of the land —all timescales, ancient, medieval and modern. The rest is a detail.
- Aug 22, 20263.8x their median
Bessent, with his brilliant treasury fix, looks like a doctor attempting to cure a patient's pancreatic cancer with a combination of potent tranquilizers and yoga-style meditation.
- Aug 22, 20262.6x their median
Friends, the problem of statistics is that even if they worked (they don't), whatever is derived statistically ONLY applies to groups never to single individuals. You are not hiring a subcontinent, but a single individual. Variance determines the max. https://t.co/woXnx3Ebx2
- Aug 26, 20262.3x their median
Netanyahu: "This is our land, and there is no other. The door is open for every Jew — we are waiting for you in the State of Israel." Meanwhile, Palestinians born there — whose families have lived on that land for centuries — are being ethnically cleansed It's their land. But apparently, not if you're not Jewish https://t.co/ZMjLAGDjdg
- Aug 17, 20261.7x their median
בשלוש השנים האחרונות עזבו את ישראל 268,509 ישראלים. 268,509 ישראלים. הפתרון הוא לא להגיד להם: "יאללה לכו, מי צריך אתכם." הפתרון הוא להגיד להם: "אנחנו יודעים שהתקלקל, אבל בואו נתקן ביחד.״ זה המקום שלכם בעולם. אנחנו המשפחה שלכם. משפחה לא עוזבים. לפעמים יוצאים לסיבוב בחוץ כדי להירגע, זה בסדר, אבל הגיע הזמן לחזור הביתה. אנחנו צריכים אתכם בשביל לתקן את המקום הזה. ביחד.
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 1.3K interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.109%. Measured over 25 original posts, its engagement rate beats 74% of 3,899 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 164K times each, and 0.767% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 14.2% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 25 posts sampled, 76% carry an image or video, 20% are part of a thread and 8% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 42K interactions, about 33x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #fooledbyrandomness, #hindrajabfoundation, #kolmogorovcomplexity.
- What is Nassim Nicholas Taleb's engagement rate on X?
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) has an engagement rate of 0.109%, based on the median interactions across 25 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,155,925 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.109%, Nassim Nicholas Taleb sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,701 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 @nntaleb have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 74% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 @nntaleb post?
- Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.63 posts per day across the measured window.