Josh Long engagement report
@starbuxman - 86K followers on X
Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 71 interactions against 86K followers, an engagement rate of 0.083%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 29% of 3,863 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 4.5K times each, and 1.56% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.28% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 27% carry an image or video and 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 527 interactions, about 7.4x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #java, #spring.
Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #java, #spring.
Compared with accounts its own size
Josh Long's engagement rate beats 29% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,863 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 3 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 45% 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 0.083%, Josh Long 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 21:00 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.
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 24, 20267.4x their median
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- Dec 14, 20243.5x their median
π - ππ«βοΈ // cc @springrod #java #springBoot #SpringFramework #beans #cafe @java https://t.co/FZBvsd8tkA
- Aug 26, 20262.8x their median
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- Aug 20, 20262.5x their median
interesting post from RabbitMQ looking at RabbitMQ vs Apache Kafka (though we might be a bit biased lol) https://t.co/owbLcUSAdv
- Aug 18, 20261.7x their median
Best Spring Framework books for Java developers features @starbuxman @mkheck 1. Spring in Action - https://t.co/Nqhjbudypa 2. Grokking Spring Boot Interview https://t.co/sj8ux8YQPh 3. Spring Microservices - https://t.co/TZaMtBk3Hb 4. Spring Security in Action - https://t.co/96Q5t6mjB9 5. Spring Boot Up and Running - https://t.co/sbzqv5Hqky 6. Reactive Spring - https://t.co/ZKuER1Gg0d
- Aug 27, 2026
Spring Security 7 just leveled up big time ππ The Spring Authorization Server is now part of Spring Security itself, and itβs bringing serious upgrades: DPoP for replay-proof tokens and PAR for safer authorization requests. Join me for a conversation with Spring Security legend Joe Grandja. #SpringSecurity #OAuth #Java #Security https://t.co/l1LCOWeS58
- Aug 23, 2026
It's happening! Copies started shipping on Friday, and @therealdanvega just sent over proof that theyβre arriving! Still waiting on my own copy to land, but seeing it in readers' hands is the absolute best feeling. Let me know when yours arrives! https://t.co/2PVujYXyGE
- Aug 29, 2026
I love https://t.co/9uIK8yQBNc and use it several times a week.
- Aug 25, 2026
π± This Week in Spring is packed: Spring AI, fresh Boot/Data/Cloud/AMQP/Batch releases, a great RabbitMQ vs Kafka comparison, and more. Iβm hitting JavaZone, IntelliJ IDEA conf, KCDC, so Iβll be reading this on the plane. Catch the roundup here: https://t.co/2zVHXzi50Y #Spring #Java #SpringAI https://t.co/2zVHXzi50Y
- Aug 25, 2026
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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.
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 71 interactions against 86K followers, an engagement rate of 0.083%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 29% of 3,863 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 4.5K times each, and 1.56% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.28% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 27% carry an image or video and 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 527 interactions, about 7.4x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #java, #spring.
- What is Josh Long's engagement rate on X?
- Josh Long (@starbuxman) has an engagement rate of 0.083%, based on the median interactions across 15 original posts from the last 30 days against 85,906 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.083%, Josh Long 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 @starbuxman have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 29% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,863 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 @starbuxman post?
- Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.43 posts per day across the measured window.