Gizmodo engagement report
@Gizmodo - 2.5M followers on X
Measured over 340 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 2 interactions against 2.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 340 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% of 3,758 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 6.3K times each, and 0.032% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.256% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 11.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 340 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 91 interactions, about 46x its own typical post.
Measured over 340 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026. Recurring tag: #deals.
Compared with accounts its own size
Gizmodo's engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 2% 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%, Gizmodo sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,521 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 | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 19:00 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 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% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 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% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
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- Aug 22, 202611x their median
Sounds Like 'National Treasure 3' Could Finally, For Real Happen https://t.co/sRlZCOcxIc
- Aug 18, 202611x their median
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- Aug 26, 20268.5x their median
RIP to the Iconic and Delightful Tim Curry https://t.co/WPkhMM3TNl
- Aug 29, 20267.5x their median
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- Aug 25, 20267.5x their median
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- Aug 20, 20267.0x their median
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- Aug 29, 20266.0x their median
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- Aug 26, 20266.0x their median
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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 2 interactions against 2.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 340 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% of 3,758 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 6.3K times each, and 0.032% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.256% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 11.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 340 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 91 interactions, about 46x its own typical post.
- What is Gizmodo's engagement rate on X?
- Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 340 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,475,108 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, Gizmodo sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,521 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 @Gizmodo have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 @Gizmodo post?
- Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 11.33 posts per day across the measured window.