Color Theory engagement report
@colortheory - 1.9M followers on X
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 9 interactions against 1.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% 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 16K times each, and 0.057% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.813% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.6 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 38% carry an image or video, 8% are part of a thread and 92% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 95 interactions, about 11x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #synthpop, #newwave, #retrowave.
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026. Recurring tags: #synthpop, #newwave, #retrowave.
Compared with accounts its own size
Color Theory's engagement rate beats 13% 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 4% 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%, Color Theory sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,759 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 | 160.4% |
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 16:00 UTC, and Monday 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 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% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 98K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
Best tweets
- Jun 5, 202611x their median
Have you ever needed someone close enough to hurt you? As you might have guessed, my new single is a bit darker and more aggressive than my usual fare. Think Mesh. https://t.co/oxwMTTkp9T I think it's my best song in a long time, but what do I know? https://t.co/mNKx4HNZS3
- Jul 17, 202610x their median
What if the friendship you're afraid to risk is the one worth risking everything for? https://t.co/QfC1WpRvQI You can also hear βCouldnβt It Be Me?β on my newly launched Windows XP themed website: https://t.co/KLKttVvGZH https://t.co/neVrXA4pq2
- Apr 3, 20267.0x their median
What remains when the armor finally falls? βThe Naked Eyeβ is a cinematic single with Bond theme energy, tracing the slow dismantling of one's emotional defenses. https://t.co/8czN48VxNI Thank you for listening and sharing! ππ»π€ https://t.co/AmYvUpCIdd
- May 1, 20264.9x their median
Some distances are measured in meters. Some in careful inches. What does it cost to keep the people you love at arm's length? https://t.co/Ym1on0BMq3 https://t.co/UJNAVTckJc
- Apr 29, 20263.9x their median
So happy to say that my new album THE OBLIVION is out today! πͺ β¨ Itβs been 5 years in the making and itβs so great to know that itβs finally out there in the universe! π Links to Spotify & other streaming platforms hereβ¦ https://t.co/Kffe6WNOIY Ben x https://t.co/9Rk51JHe8F
- Apr 6, 20262.9x their median
π πππππππ πππππππ 1β£ #RevivalSynth πππππ ππππ @andyjay24084 @iyatoyah Lonelyklown @komputerdave @NewArcades @Parralox @ThenComesS @mstrstmsc @colortheory @SorrowStories @X Promo @Stereo_in_Solo https://t.co/gDcrXO5el9 https://t.co/EKXTtz78Zt https://t.co/dUJEWUsKEn
- Mar 16, 20263.3x their median
Iβve spent my βspare timeβ over the past few months re-mixing and remastering my 2021 album, Mages. Iβve replaced the old version everywhere I can, including Spotify, Apple Music, and Bandcamp. https://t.co/JpYzXNYHaG
- Jun 3, 20262.8x their median
βThe Oblivionβ vinyl has arrived! Wasnβt quite prepared for just how many boxes there are! π Having to find some creative storage solutions around the house. π Let the postal madness begin! π¦π¦π¦ https://t.co/UQ4BizzIXh
- Jul 13, 20262.2x their median
Hope you've had the chance to mess around with Color Theory XP! β¨ New features: my upcoming release isn't just playable, it's fully mixable! Plus pinball, MS Paint, and it's mostly mobile-friendly. https://t.co/KLKttVvGZH https://t.co/UZq4SOhn7R
- Aug 28, 20261.9x their median
Somewhere between forgive and forget, there's a swarm of killer bees. My new single "Time to Kill" is live on all platforms. https://t.co/I4w1tkYxae
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 9 interactions against 1.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% 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 16K times each, and 0.057% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.813% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.6 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 38% carry an image or video, 8% are part of a thread and 92% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 95 interactions, about 11x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #synthpop, #newwave, #retrowave.
- What is Color Theory's engagement rate on X?
- Color Theory (@colortheory) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 13 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,944,041 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Color Theory sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,759 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 @colortheory have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 @colortheory post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.6 posts per day across the measured window.