PetaPixel engagement report
@petapixel - 929K followers on X
Measured over 69 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 15 interactions against 929K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 69 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 3,739 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 4.7K times each, and 0.317% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.51% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 69 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 74 interactions, about 4.9x its own typical post.
Measured over 69 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
PetaPixel's engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 0.002%, PetaPixel sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,378 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 | 0.432% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 161.0% |
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 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% | 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% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 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% | 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% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 14, 20264.9x their median
Cara, an anti-AI photo app, has reportedly had all of its content scraped by a bad actor. https://t.co/XRiaIvT0Qx
- Aug 27, 20263.6x their median
If you wear this Hawaiian shirt, AI security cameras won't think you're human. https://t.co/WdCDepOUuB
- Aug 27, 20263.6x their median
The photographer who captured one of the most enduring images of the Vietnam War taken on American soil has died at age 99. https://t.co/bjhNIeYZys
- Aug 25, 20263.3x their median
Apple unveiled two new chips today. The M6 is the company's first-ever 2nm chip. The M5 Ultra is Apple's first to use "quad-die architecture" and it supports up to 512GB of RAM. https://t.co/F6cajsIx0d
- Aug 19, 20263.3x their median
The Japanese government says the digital camera industry is in recovery and showing signs of growth. https://t.co/YJNCj7gpBl
- Aug 20, 20263.1x their median
Canon's digital camera market share has increased, and there's a surprising newcomer to the top three. https://t.co/bE8KU7PMEh
- Aug 14, 20262.8x their median
These 31 award-winning nighttime photos celebrate the beauty of the night sky and show why we must endeavor to protect dark skies all over the world. https://t.co/p2Z23gcY1K
- Aug 13, 20262.6x their median
Photographers from all over the world traveled to Europe last night for a stunning total solar eclipse. https://t.co/xugqBdAdtv
- Aug 25, 20262.5x their median
Apple's new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra supports up to 512GB of unified memory and is Apple's most powerful Mac ever. By a lot. https://t.co/eZgsMjT6ur
- Aug 24, 20262.5x their median
Sony extended its global image sensor market share lead and is now ahead of second place by over 40 percentage points. https://t.co/M0JJCx0NRU
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 15 interactions against 929K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 69 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 3,739 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 4.7K times each, and 0.317% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.51% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 69 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 74 interactions, about 4.9x its own typical post.
- What is PetaPixel's engagement rate on X?
- PetaPixel (@petapixel) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 69 original posts from the last 30 days against 929,141 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, PetaPixel sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,378 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 @petapixel have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @petapixel post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.3 posts per day across the measured window.