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Artnet engagement report

@artnet - 1.8M followers on X

Measured over 76 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 1.8M followers
Per impression
0.243%
6.6K views on a typical post
Reach
0.37%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
16
interactions (median)
Saved
0.03%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.53/day
active 87% of days
Peak time
19:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 16 interactions against 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 76 original posts, its engagement rate beats 17% of 3,791 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 6.6K times each, and 0.243% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.374% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 76 posts sampled, 24% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 305 interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #artnetnews, #theartanglepodcast.

Measured over 76 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #artnetnews, #theartanglepodcast.

Compared with accounts its own size

Artnet's engagement rate beats 17% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 23% 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 0.001%, Artnet sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.433%
p902.10%
p99160.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,654 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,977 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 percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.433%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.5%

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 Thursday 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: 19:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 19:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
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%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
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%101K
16:00 UTC-3%98K
17:00 UTC-2%91K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-1%80K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-1%57K
23:00 UTC-2%52K
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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Thursday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%231K
Monday0%288K
Tuesday-2%278K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%245K
Friday-3%253K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 27, 202619x their median

    #ArtnetNews: Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, whose abstract paintings and immersive dreamscapes reshaped contemporary art and popular culture, died on August 14 at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 97. Read more: https://t.co/s6MaegtIbf

    2197112315K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20264.6x their median

    #ArtnetNews: Inside the Renaissance workshops where tarot was born. In “Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions,” the Morgan Library and Museum reunites the surviving cards of the famed Visconti-Sforza deck for the first time in North America. Read more: https://t.co/4nY0xTh6kM

    6011026.7K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20264.1x their median

    #ArtnetNews: Long-unseen Mondrian heads to auction as the artist’s market heats up. A pivotal painting from the artist's oeuvre is hitting the block at Christie’s, carrying a high estimate of $40.8 million. Read more: https://t.co/amwx8miK6w https://t.co/aOgUO7vJ04

    5011315.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20262.9x their median

    #ArtnetNews: Foujita fever heads to Hong Kong with dedicated Sotheby’s sale. Joe and Vivienne Lewis spent nearly 30 years investing in the artist. Read more: https://t.co/9rTLcwpHOP https://t.co/GbwQ5tbKIN

    378117.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 20262.8x their median

    #ArtnetNews: Billionaire Ken Griffin’s Leonardo da Vinci loan to the Met signals big ambitions. The hedge fund titan also bought a record-setting Artemisia Gentileschi painting this year. Read more: https://t.co/1bdvObvVjK https://t.co/sk2mfTMqCW

    376115.2K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20262.8x their median

    #ArtnetNews: Marcel Duchamp in full: Join painter Nolan Simon on a tour of MoMA’s sprawling show. Here, in 77 slides, the painter dives deep into the soon-to-close survey. Read more: https://t.co/bHN9E3mBrR

    337319.6K viewsView on X
  • Aug 8, 20262.6x their median

    #ArtnetNews: Pollock and Rothko works help explain a decades-long scientific mystery. New research from an International Space Science Institute counters decades of scientific thinking, through the lens of Abstract Expressionism. Read more: https://t.co/7erOntzWsT

    2412418.4K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20262.3x their median

    #ArtnetNews: Jordan Wolfson is opening a major show at Gagosian. He does not want to talk about it. 'I’m not here to retain power and transform that power into mediocrity. I’m here to do art. This is serious.' Read more: https://t.co/QphwQoTuTy

    286208.2K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20262.1x their median

    #ArtnetNews: Gwangju Biennale reinstates Taiwan pavilion. The move comes after Taiwanese exhibitors claimed they were refused entry to the biennial venue. Read more: https://t.co/ipYm9pI4Rk https://t.co/Ln6u4G5KgL

    268008.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20261.9x their median

    Venezuelan Op art pioneers get Palm Desert showcase. Heather James Fine Art is reexamining the pioneering achievements of Venezuelan Op art in “Completing the Illusion.” Read more: https://t.co/RzKM6jV43u https://t.co/1KdTxWWZYB

    252405.9K 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

#artnetnews#theartanglepodcast

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 16 interactions against 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 76 original posts, its engagement rate beats 17% of 3,791 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 6.6K times each, and 0.243% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.374% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 76 posts sampled, 24% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 305 interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #artnetnews, #theartanglepodcast.

What is Artnet's engagement rate on X?
Artnet (@artnet) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 76 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,757,829 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, Artnet sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 @artnet have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 17% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 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 @artnet post?
Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.53 posts per day across the measured window.

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