Smashing Magazine πΊπ¦ π³οΈβπ engagement report
@smashingmag - 812K followers on X
Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 16 interactions against 812K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% 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 7.0K times each, and 0.227% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.867% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.33 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 70% carry an image or video and 60% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 142 interactions, about 8.9x its own typical post.
Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tag: #smashingcommunity.
Compared with accounts its own size
Smashing Magazine πΊπ¦ π³οΈβπ's engagement rate beats 15% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 19% 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%, Smashing Magazine πΊπ¦ π³οΈβπ sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 | 0.431% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 11:00 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% | 51K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 71K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 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% | 229K |
| Monday | 0% | 284K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 273K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 250K |
| Thursday | -2% | 243K |
| Friday | -3% | 251K |
| Saturday | +3% | 226K |
Best tweets
- Mar 13, 20268.9x their median
β±οΈ Almost any kind of application written in JavaScript works with dates or times in some capacity. Initially, this was limited to the built-in Date API, then Moment.js, and now the new Temporal standard has landed. @joeattardi shares practical βrecipesβ for migrating Moment-based code to the new Temporal API: https://t.co/4rjEIS5FoO
- Mar 19, 20264.3x their median
β¨ Youβve probably been there before. How do you choose between showing a modal to users and navigating them to a separate, new page? And does it even matter? https://t.co/AgMwivqnBU
- Apr 7, 20262.1x their median
Our Person of the Week is a security researcher and CSS enthusiast who builds things most people would think are impossible. Please give a warm round of applause for... Lyra Rebane! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @rebane2001! π§‘ #smashingcommunity https://t.co/rjBlyiux59
- Mar 20, 20262.1x their median
π§© Dropdowns often work perfectly until theyβre placed inside a scrollable panel, where they can get clipped, and half the menu disappears behind the containerβs edge. β¬ Godstime Aburu explains why this happens and offers practical solutions to fix it: https://t.co/oDwRULnw3t
- Jun 1, 20261.6x their median
Our Person of the Week is passionate about turning chaos into cohesion with scalable, intuitive systems. Please give a warm round of applause for... Donnie DβAmato! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @donniedamato! π§‘ #smashingcommunity https://t.co/12Q41TZ9Ih
- Aug 10, 2026
Our Person of the Week is a research leader, educator, writer, and UX research expert with over a decade of experience. Please give a warm round of applause for... Maria Rosala! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @maria_rosala! π§‘ #smashingcommunity https://t.co/32SyB9F6ti
- Aug 3, 2026
Our Person of the Week has more than 20 years of experience turning design into a strategic business advantage. Please give a warm round of applause for... Sudha Broslawsky! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @sudhabroslawsky! π§‘ #smashingcommunity https://t.co/wQ0EIqvq8m
- Aug 17, 2026
Our Person of the Week is an environmentally focused tech generalist advocating for a more sustainable internet. Drumroll, please, for... Chris Adams! Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear @mrchrisadams! π§‘ #smashingcommunity https://t.co/c6bl0ekfhU
- Aug 13, 2026
π The EU has published new guidelinesΒ on the transparency of AI systems. Hereβs why AI sparkles alone arenβt enough, when AI labels are necessary, and what the rules mean for AI-powered features and products: https://t.co/PCRuMpKSIr https://t.co/1A8fCMa5Ty
- Jul 10, 2026
π± The strongest visual concepts donβt start in Figma. They start with the right questions. Take a closer look at the pre-concept phase of brand identity design, where teams research brand context, uncover hidden assumptions with stakeholders, and turn shared direction into a visual foundation before a single concept is created: https://t.co/XGQt0eTjIW
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
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 16 interactions against 812K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% 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 7.0K times each, and 0.227% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.867% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.33 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 70% carry an image or video and 60% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 142 interactions, about 8.9x its own typical post.
- What is Smashing Magazine πΊπ¦ π³οΈβπ's engagement rate on X?
- Smashing Magazine πΊπ¦ π³οΈβπ (@smashingmag) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 10 original posts from the last 30 days against 812,359 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, Smashing Magazine πΊπ¦ π³οΈβπ sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 @smashingmag have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 15% 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 @smashingmag post?
- Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.33 posts per day across the measured window.