The FADER engagement report
@thefader - 726K followers on X
Measured over 94 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 26 interactions against 726K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 94 original posts, its engagement rate beats 21% 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 9.0K times each, and 0.282% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.24% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 94 posts sampled, 74% carry an image or video, 10% are part of a thread and 34% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.6K interactions, about 176x its own typical post.
Measured over 94 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
The FADER's engagement rate beats 21% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 22% 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 0.004%, The FADER sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 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 | 160.7% |
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 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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
- Jul 14, 2026176x their median
Introducing The FADER's July 2026 cover star: @underscoresplus A monumental first half of 2026 propelled the 26-year-old from the underground to the brink of the mainstream. She’s figuring it all out in real time. “A lot of crazy things are happening. A bunch of famous people are following me, and I'm not reacting to it at all,” she says. "For some reason right now, I just can’t pay attention to it. I gotta keep going." Read more: https://t.co/27RxDg82pK
- Aug 27, 202666x their median
Ayra Starr makes music for girls with galaxy-sized dreams. The Nigerian pop star’s formula for success? Be rebellious, trust in God, and have supreme confidence. Read more: https://t.co/UUrtFIUlBk https://t.co/zCp8Ct1iF9
- Aug 18, 202648x their median
@ravynlenae on genre, race, and refusing to be put in a box: "It's a disservice to black culture and black art as a whole for us not to be able to just fly free." https://t.co/8b4K6knQYj
- Aug 28, 202646x their median
WILLOW, Momo Boyd, and flowerovlove via IG 📸 https://t.co/xebdRAu2sm
- Aug 27, 202637x their median
Ayra Starr on linking with ZAYN for "Heaven Baby:" "When he released 'PILLOWTALK,' I remember watching that video back-to-back every time, and just being in love with the song." https://t.co/EhhjWGNyLf
- Aug 21, 202623x their median
Jorja Smith's third studio album 'What Are The Odds' is out now. https://t.co/UeCMwnMOa5
- Aug 20, 202621x their median
It's been 10 years of Frank Ocean's 'blonde.' 💿 If 'Channel Orange' felt pleasantly dreamlike, then 'blonde' is more like the foggy feeling you get upon waking back up to reality. Released independently right after his visual album 'Endless' fulfilled his contract with Def Jam, the now-certified platinum record had an incredible roster of contributors—including Beyoncé, Kanye West, Tyler, the Creator, and James Blake. A decade later, which track hits the most for you?
- Aug 21, 202619x their median
Ayra Starr brings out kwn to perform "Amazing" for the first time at All Points East in London 💜 https://t.co/78NdIdibIc
- Aug 27, 202614x their median
Ayra Starr on her mindset for 'Starrgirl:' "I’ve been moving from the point of view of I 'have' to be. With 'Starrgirl,' it’s just like 'I am.' There’s no other Ayra Starr that’s Yoruba, there’s no other Ayra Starr that’s going to have a gele on her album cover. " Read more: https://t.co/4VQlYTMKjx
- Aug 28, 20267.0x their median
Lancey Foux's new album 'THE TIME OF OUR LIVES' is out now. https://t.co/UNjRSpctVX
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 26 interactions against 726K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 94 original posts, its engagement rate beats 21% 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 9.0K times each, and 0.282% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.24% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 94 posts sampled, 74% carry an image or video, 10% are part of a thread and 34% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.6K interactions, about 176x its own typical post.
- What is The FADER's engagement rate on X?
- The FADER (@thefader) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 94 original posts from the last 30 days against 726,247 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.004%, The FADER sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 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 @thefader have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 21% 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 @thefader post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.6 posts per day across the measured window.