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nixCraft 🐧 engagement report

@nixcraft - 398K followers on X

Measured over 11 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.053%
of 398K followers
Per impression
1.31%
16K views on a typical post
Reach
4.03%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
210
interactions (median)
Saved
0.044%
7 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.47/day
active 37% of days
Peak time
10:00 UTC
Saturday

A typical post picks up 210 interactions against 398K followers, an engagement rate of 0.053%. Measured over 11 original posts, its engagement rate beats 43% 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 16K times each, and 1.31% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.03% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.47 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 11 posts sampled, 45% carry an image or video, 9% are part of a thread and 9% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 34K interactions, about 164x its own typical post.

Measured over 11 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

nixCraft 🐧's engagement rate beats 43% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 50% 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 0.053%, nixCraft 🐧 sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,134 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.431%
p902.11%
p99161.6%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,134 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,713 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 percentile0.431%
90th percentile2.11%
99th percentile161.6%

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 10:00 UTC, and Saturday 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: 10:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 10:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%50K
01:00 UTC-2%51K
02:00 UTC-4%49K
03:00 UTC-4%53K
04:00 UTC-6%42K
05:00 UTC-4%41K
06:00 UTC-4%47K
07:00 UTC-5%51K
08:00 UTC-4%60K
09:00 UTC-3%68K
10:00 UTC-2%71K
11:00 UTC-3%77K
12:00 UTC-2%85K
13:00 UTC-2%93K
14:00 UTC-3%96K
15:00 UTC-2%99K
16:00 UTC-3%96K
17:00 UTC-2%89K
18:00 UTC-2%83K
19:00 UTC-2%79K
20:00 UTC-1%73K
21:00 UTC-1%65K
22:00 UTC-1%57K
23:00 UTC-2%51K
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: Saturday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Saturday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%228K
Monday0%281K
Tuesday-2%270K
Wednesday-1%249K
Thursday-2%242K
Friday-3%250K
Saturday+3%225K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 210 interactions against 398K followers, an engagement rate of 0.053%. Measured over 11 original posts, its engagement rate beats 43% 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 16K times each, and 1.31% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.03% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.47 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 11 posts sampled, 45% carry an image or video, 9% are part of a thread and 9% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 34K interactions, about 164x its own typical post.

What is nixCraft 🐧's engagement rate on X?
nixCraft 🐧 (@nixcraft) has an engagement rate of 0.053%, based on the median interactions across 11 original posts from the last 30 days against 397,684 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.053%, nixCraft 🐧 sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,134 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 @nixcraft have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 43% 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 @nixcraft post?
Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.47 posts per day across the measured window.

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