PC Gamer engagement report
@pcgamer - 3.5M followers on X
Measured over 299 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 51 interactions against 3.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 299 original posts, its engagement rate beats 21% of 3,862 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 33K times each, and 0.154% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.945% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 10 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 299 posts sampled, 14% carry an image or video and 90% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.3K interactions, about 84x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #pcgamer, #pcgaming, #gta6.
Measured over 299 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #pcgamer, #pcgaming, #gta6.
Compared with accounts its own size
PC Gamer's engagement rate beats 21% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,862 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 14% 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 0.002%, PC Gamer sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,350 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 | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.437% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 159.9% |
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% | 52K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 62K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 71K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 74K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 80K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 88K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 97K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 100K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 103K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 100K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 93K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 82K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 76K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 235K |
| Monday | 0% | 296K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 292K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 254K |
| Thursday | -2% | 248K |
| Friday | -3% | 256K |
| Saturday | +3% | 230K |
Best tweets
- Aug 26, 202684x their median
Blue Dragon is finally free from the Xbox 360: a fantastic PC port unlocks the FPS, goes 4K, and more https://t.co/vpasCGEIeK
- Aug 18, 202642x their median
GTA 6 leaker says they won't stop until Rockstar and Take-Two apologize for 'anti-consumerism' https://t.co/ppKFDTlEqf
- Aug 27, 202639x their median
Total War: Warhammer 40k will let you stuff your dead Space Marine characters into Dreadnoughts https://t.co/LTeUhNOAct
- Aug 18, 202635x their median
GTA 6 leaks show a game that looks like more GTA, but not a revolution https://t.co/pBgqLb8nvE
- Aug 15, 202619x their median
You can now play the secret best immersive sim in coop thanks to this mod https://t.co/ARW5XCqTNt
- Aug 28, 202615x their median
While I don't see it having the modding/sandbox "forever game" gravity of XCOM 2, it is excellent, substantial, and highly replayable. I've found it to be a mic drop of a debut from Bit Reactor, a sense that's only compounded by its crowd-pleasingly anachronistic price tag of $50. #pcgamer #pcgaming #starwarszerocompany #starwars
- Aug 16, 202613x their median
Quake gets a 22-map 'Deathmatch Jam' from the community to celebrate the shooter's 30th birthday https://t.co/okQmh5UjQu
- Aug 29, 202613x their median
Donkey Kong 64 is finally playable on PC thanks to a team that proudly avoided any use of gen AI https://t.co/XuFWKHZH2R
- Aug 26, 202612x their median
Tim Curry, Red Alert 3 star and camp icon of stage and screen, dies aged 80 https://t.co/MDq3OhX7ml
- Aug 17, 202611x their median
"The game's bigger now than it was in 2007" https://t.co/KO6PVVsG6U #pcgamer #pcgaming #oldschoolrunescape https://t.co/DcJVgK1b5x
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 51 interactions against 3.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 299 original posts, its engagement rate beats 21% of 3,862 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 33K times each, and 0.154% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.945% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 10 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 299 posts sampled, 14% carry an image or video and 90% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.3K interactions, about 84x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #pcgamer, #pcgaming, #gta6.
- What is PC Gamer's engagement rate on X?
- PC Gamer (@pcgamer) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 299 original posts from the last 30 days against 3,509,014 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, PC Gamer sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,350 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 @pcgamer have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 21% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,862 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 @pcgamer post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 9.97 posts per day across the measured window.