tobi lutke engagement report
@tobi - 501K followers on X
Measured over 11 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 776 interactions against 501K followers, an engagement rate of 0.156%. Measured over 11 original posts, its engagement rate beats 76% of 4,346 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 84K times each, and 0.927% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 16.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 11 posts sampled, 73% carry an image or video, 9% are part of a thread and 27% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 25x its own typical post.
Measured over 11 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026. Recurring tag: #golikehell.
Compared with accounts its own size
tobi lutke's engagement rate beats 76% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,346 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 50% 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 0.156%, tobi lutke sits above the 50th percentile of the 42,087 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.084% to 0.449%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.013% |
| 50th percentile | 0.084% |
| 75th percentile | 0.449% |
| 90th percentile | 2.07% |
| 99th percentile | 143.1% |
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 13:00 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% | 59K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 02:00 UTC | -4% | 58K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 62K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 50K |
| 05:00 UTC | -5% | 49K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 56K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 61K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 71K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 82K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 84K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 91K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 110K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 113K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 117K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 114K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 106K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 99K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 87K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 67K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 60K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 257K |
| Monday | +1% | 329K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 355K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 323K |
| Thursday | -3% | 273K |
| Friday | -3% | 277K |
| Saturday | +3% | 250K |
Best tweets
- Jul 24, 202625x their median
We removed ~80% of the Claude Code system prompt for our newest models, this is what we've learned about writing system prompts, skills and Claude.MDs for them. https://t.co/6DZwSrZjE9
- Aug 18, 202614x their median
Since everyone wanted a closer lookβ¦.#GoLikeHell https://t.co/sRlQtnxsq8
- Jan 18, 20267.2x their median
My conversation with Tobi LΓΌtke (@tobi), co-founder and CEO of Shopify. 0:00 Companies as Social Technology 5:27 The Value of Reading Books: Cheat Codes for Life 7:28 Post-IPO Crisis: Cosplaying as a CEO 7:54 Competition vs Rivalry: The Power of Healthy Competition 16:02 COVID as a Turning Point: Rebuilding the Executive Team 18:21 Hiring Founders: Building a Team of High-Agency People 26:49 Shopify OS: Engineering the Company from First Principles 36:48 Compensation Innovation: Giving Employees Full Agency 40:41 The Psychology of Identity and Affirmations 48:43 Differentiation Over Perfection: Making It Your Own 50:31 Context Podcast: Documenting Decision-Making 1:26:36 The IPO Decision: Going Against Silicon Valley Orthodoxy 1:35:08 Building a Company Worth Working For 1:41:50 Hiring for Spikiness: Finding Non-Conformists 1:48:28 Office Design Philosophy: Creating Space for Excellence 1:58:54 Video Games as Business Training: StarCraft Lessons 2:07:06 AI Revolution: 2026 and Beyond 2:11:44 Focus on Craft: The Unquantifiable Elements of Excellence 2:21:08 Survivorship Bias: The Importance of Entrepreneurial Exposure 2:23:22 Closing Includes paid partnerships.
- Aug 18, 20264.0x their median
Super + ` in Omarchy 4.1 will give you the classic Quake console pull down for your default agent. @tobi absolutely cooked on this one π€ https://t.co/smTKVmWmNf
- Aug 20, 20262.7x their median
Legendary https://t.co/ttdewiDCzZ
- Aug 14, 2026
we are living in the 'sudo make me a sandwich' era of desktop software https://t.co/wIxcMUFPKd
- Aug 9, 2026
Everyone is certain AI is about to create a permanent underclass. Tobi LΓΌtke can't find it in Shopify's data, where someone makes their first ever sale every 36 seconds. Here's how he thinks AI will affect society instead: 1) Everyone becomes a 7/10 at everything https://t.co/tNXsDoofYB
- Aug 13, 2026
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- Aug 27, 2026
Linux currently has an all-time-high desktop market share of 7.53% as of July 2026. But what exactly happened over the last two months? In May 2026, Linuxβs market share was 3.81%, so how did Linux gain approximately 3.72 percentage points in just two months? https://t.co/djplVJ2WlY
- Aug 26, 2026
UCP, the universal commerce protocol is growing better and better https://t.co/wAP6kW3qGw
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 776 interactions against 501K followers, an engagement rate of 0.156%. Measured over 11 original posts, its engagement rate beats 76% of 4,346 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 84K times each, and 0.927% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 16.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 11 posts sampled, 73% carry an image or video, 9% are part of a thread and 27% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 25x its own typical post.
- What is tobi lutke's engagement rate on X?
- tobi lutke (@tobi) has an engagement rate of 0.156%, based on the median interactions across 11 original posts from the last 30 days against 501,035 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.156%, tobi lutke sits above the 50th percentile of the 42,087 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 @tobi have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 76% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,346 accounts), which puts it in the top 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 @tobi post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.2 posts per day across the measured window.