TNW engagement report
@thenextweb - 1.5M followers on X
Measured over 133 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 5 interactions against 1.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 133 original posts, its engagement rate beats 9% of 3,774 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 4.0K times each, and 0.125% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.272% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 133 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 38 interactions, about 7.6x its own typical post.
Measured over 133 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
TNW's engagement rate beats 9% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 11% 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 under 0.001%, TNW sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 | 0.433% |
| 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 08:00 UTC, and Sunday 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
- Aug 26, 20267.6x their median
Bill Gates says 40% of jobs is the maximum protectable. He wants some roles reserved for humans and AI tokens taxed, and describes that as "as high as I can get", which leaves the rest of the labour market to whatever happens. https://t.co/8JrfqfLN1B https://t.co/XoPnuaU8LU
- Aug 26, 20266.4x their median
Tim Cook is not leaving Apple. Only the job. He becomes executive chairman on 1 September and keeps the regulators, while John Ternus takes everything else. https://t.co/42TfNF9v4m https://t.co/QT3FizWD0e
- Aug 22, 20266.4x their median
Meta pays Microsoft, which resells OpenAI, to test Meta's models. Bloomberg puts it at hundreds of millions a year and trillions of tokens a week, and both companies declined to comment. https://t.co/bYG7ydIC9v https://t.co/4Ybtv1sc95
- Aug 20, 20265.0x their median
Anthropic could list in September. OpenAI says 2027. Friar told staff not to worry about that, and pointed at the $122bn OpenAI raised in March as the reason it can wait. https://t.co/dLxdXRwgZ9 https://t.co/K3zSQ07qWt
- Aug 27, 20264.2x their median
Spain would not fine anyone. It would cut the power. A draft decree would require new data centres to run on 80% renewables in every hour, with grid access as the enforcement tool. https://t.co/CyotPeuCbr https://t.co/xugXeDQuW2
- Aug 22, 20264.2x their median
Ormat drilled for heat since the 1960s. Google signed 150MW. Its first data centre deal in January was 13MW, so one customer just moved the company more than a decade of ordinary growth. https://t.co/WizBsRgcNN https://t.co/tG91917rKb
- Aug 21, 20264.2x their median
Vision Pro costs $3,699. Meta's own glasses cost $299. Apple is cutting more than 200 roles across the headset and Siri teams, and says it will create new ones. https://t.co/bqU9JfMdM7 https://t.co/XE2jfhUSdV
- Aug 25, 20263.6x their median
SpaceX raised $75B. Then it landed in Trump's portfolio. It also landed in almost everyone else's, because SpaceX lobbied index providers to include it before listing. https://t.co/K8eOLBRKLb https://t.co/vhKPZ6OysZ
- Aug 25, 20263.2x their median
The Times union wants 22.5% of every AI deal. It also wants human oversight of any AI use, which would make the paper's new AI search summaries impractical to run. Management announced those summaries at the bargaining table. https://t.co/3ByjgQLtHG https://t.co/KJ2p9QOfdL
- Aug 26, 20263.0x their median
Dr Dre says AI is a tool. Apple Music starts labelling it. He runs Beats for the same company, and the tags are for AI-derived tracks rather than anything in his catalogue. https://t.co/ZqV811zbu9 https://t.co/xDocXeA03a
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 5 interactions against 1.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 133 original posts, its engagement rate beats 9% of 3,774 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 4.0K times each, and 0.125% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.272% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 133 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 38 interactions, about 7.6x its own typical post.
- What is TNW's engagement rate on X?
- TNW (@thenextweb) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 133 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,469,354 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, TNW sits below the 10th 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 @thenextweb have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 9% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% 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 @thenextweb post?
- Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.73 posts per day across the measured window.