Visual Studio engagement report
@VisualStudio - 535K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 44 interactions against 535K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 28% of 3,739 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 9.4K times each, and 0.473% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.76% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 95% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 221 interactions, about 5.0x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #githubcopilot, #visualstudio.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026. Recurring tags: #githubcopilot, #visualstudio.
Compared with accounts its own size
Visual Studio's engagement rate beats 28% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 33% 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 0.008%, Visual Studio sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 | 0.431% |
| 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 12:00 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% | 51K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 71K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 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% | 229K |
| Monday | 0% | 284K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 273K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 250K |
| Thursday | -2% | 243K |
| Friday | -3% | 251K |
| Saturday | +3% | 226K |
Best tweets
- Aug 14, 20265.0x their median
Grok 4.6 is now available in Visual Studio. Try it for complex coding tasks, large codebases, and long-running agentic workflows that require sustained reasoning across multiple steps. Details: https://t.co/J6NY23SFHY #VisualStudio #GitHubCopilot https://t.co/s9EXId6K2L
- Aug 14, 20265.0x their median
Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available in Visual Studio. Available now in the Copilot Chat model picker, Gemini 3.7 Flash builds on previous Flash models with improvements to agentic coding workflows, code quality, codebase research, and verification during complex coding tasks. Learn more: https://t.co/djnpdtNT7Q #VisualStudio #GitHubCopilot
- Aug 11, 20263.3x their median
MAI Code 1.1 Flash is now available in Visual Studio. Try Microsoft’s latest small-tier coding model for fast coding tasks, code and image workflows, and agentic development scenarios. 🧷 Details: https://t.co/Nyr7Gr2OaA #VisualStudio #GitHubCopilot https://t.co/HFJPz9Bdeo
- Aug 20, 20261.9x their median
Git submodules… but make them IDE‑friendly 😎 VS 18.9 adds auto-discovery, clean repo views, read‑only safety + one‑click activation. No more terminal detours — just vibes + productivity. 👉 Blog: https://t.co/kU6uycUNlb https://t.co/VK03SB5OBh
- Aug 14, 20261.7x their median
🧩 Rust/C++ interop highlights: 🪛 C as the OG glue 🔧 bindgen/cbindgen 🧱 CXX (macro‑IDL) 🧬 Zengor (layout‑aware) 🚀 Kubit (full API lift) 🧠 Hard bits: relocatability, overloading, pinning 🛠️ Compilers matter a lot 👉 Watch: https://t.co/3Bbv5EQmh6 https://t.co/lnJfPoVfAZ
- Aug 17, 20261.7x their median
New to the Visual Studio Subscriber Portal? This one-minute walkthrough shows you where to begin and how to navigate the resources included with your Visual Studio subscription. 🎥 https://t.co/ZowLWaPIXh https://t.co/nZyXuxCD2K
- Aug 19, 20261.7x their median
Visual Studio devs: sharpen your debugging superpowers. 🔍✨ Breakpoints, step-through flow, state inspection, logging + tracing — all packed into one fast Learn module. 👉 Start your learning here: https://t.co/dNNQSpPErk https://t.co/KLFelUbucr
- Aug 11, 2026
Whether you're exploring AI on Azure or looking for better ways to manage subscriptions and optimize cloud costs, there's always something new to learn. Cloud Academy recently added new courses for Visual Studio subscribers. Explore your benefits: https://t.co/JgDSkdZGGG https://t.co/A7qtMa5ojD
- Aug 14, 2026
Raymond’s back with agile delegates, part 9, and the vibes are chaotic‑precise: 〰️ C++/WinRT = hard reject on non‑marshalable delegates 〰️ C++/CX = “fine… until you cross apartments” energy 〰️ WRL = eager agile ref + instant nope if non‑marshalable 👉 Good read: https://t.co/OxaBcSy9v9
- Aug 24, 2026
Same engine as the Copilot CLI, now built into Visual Studio's agent mode. Dalia Abo Sheasha on why. https://t.co/wJ2Pufrhyu https://t.co/z9qbu5pveY
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 44 interactions against 535K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 28% of 3,739 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 9.4K times each, and 0.473% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.76% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 95% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 221 interactions, about 5.0x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #githubcopilot, #visualstudio.
- What is Visual Studio's engagement rate on X?
- Visual Studio (@VisualStudio) has an engagement rate of 0.008%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 535,320 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.008%, Visual Studio sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 @VisualStudio have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 28% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @VisualStudio post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.4 posts per day across the measured window.