đź’Ľ OpenAI Engineer Tops September X Traffic Rankings
According to Similarweb data published on October 18, 2026, the most visited X profile by web traffic share in September 2026 was the account @thsottiaux — Thibault Sottiaux, who is responsible for ChatGPT, Codex, and the API at OpenAI. The second most visited was football journalist Fabrizio Romano, followed by Elon Musk in third place; in August, Sottiaux was second, and in July, he was fourth. According to X statistics, he published 83 announcements about limit resets over the year, 60 of which were about full resets, and users have created unofficial websites to track these resets.
🌍 The ranking indicates that the audience is monitoring not only model releases but also the operational constraints of AI products: announcements by a single engineer about limit resets bring more web traffic to his profile page than Elon Musk’s page. However, an important caveat: Similarweb measures the share of web traffic directed to the profile page, excluding the X application—this is the frequency of page visits, not post reach or “influence,” and drawing conclusions about compute shortages from it is methodologically incorrect.
👤 If you pay for ChatGPT or Codex, this case explains why limits feel so acute and why the community tracks every post by Sottiaux—down to unofficial reset tracker sites. This is also an example of metric divergence: Sottiaux has approximately 893,000 followers compared to Musk’s 240 million, yet his profile page receives more traffic.
Source 1: https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/4032413985821063
Source 2: https://x.com/Similarweb/status/2111782638830653489