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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

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.156%
of 501K followers
Per impression
0.927%
84K views on a typical post
Reach
16.8%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
776
interactions (median)
Saved
0.057%
48 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.2/day
active 57% of days
Peak time
13:00 UTC
Tuesday

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%.

p100.002%
p250.013%
p50 (median)0.084%
p750.449%
p902.07%
p99143.1%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 42,087 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 84,187 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.013%
50th percentile0.084%
75th percentile0.449%
90th percentile2.07%
99th percentile143.1%

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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 13:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 13:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
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
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%257K
Monday+1%329K
Tuesday-2%355K
Wednesday-4%323K
Thursday-3%273K
Friday-3%277K
Saturday+3%250K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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

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  • Aug 18, 202614x their median

    Since everyone wanted a closer look….#GoLikeHell https://t.co/sRlQtnxsq8

    9.1K1.2K96301947K viewsView on X
  • 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.

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  • 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 🀘 https://t.co/smTKVmWmNf

    2.8K8416151411K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20262.7x their median

    Legendary https://t.co/ttdewiDCzZ

    2.0K7523884K viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 2026

    we are living in the 'sudo make me a sandwich' era of desktop software https://t.co/wIxcMUFPKd

    8833335743K viewsView on X
  • 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

    74466399450K viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 2026

    ‼️π—₯π—˜π—”π—Ÿπ—œπ—§π—¬ π—–π—›π—˜π—–π—ž Between 2024-25, CBC made $𝟱𝟴𝟴.πŸ³π—  and somehow managed to spend $𝟭.𝟡 π—•π—œπ—Ÿπ—Ÿπ—œπ—’π—‘. Take away taxpayers funding, and CBC is $𝟭.𝟯𝟴 π—•π—œπ—Ÿπ—Ÿπ—œπ—’π—‘ π—œπ—‘ π—§π—›π—˜ π—›π—’π—Ÿπ—˜! Canadians are subsidizing their own misinformation machine. πŸ™ƒ https://t.co/BMWvrmVsVp

    50922633845K viewsView on X
  • 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, Linux’s market share was 3.81%, so how did Linux gain approximately 3.72 percentage points in just two months? https://t.co/djplVJ2WlY

    444339915144K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 2026

    UCP, the universal commerce protocol is growing better and better https://t.co/wAP6kW3qGw

    2251714345K viewsView on X

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

#golikehell

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.

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