Windows Developer engagement report
@windowsdev - 511K followers on X
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 34 interactions against 511K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 25% 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 6.5K times each, and 0.526% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.26% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video and 77% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 838 interactions, about 25x its own typical post.
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026. Recurring tag: #gamescom2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Windows Developer's engagement rate beats 25% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 35% 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 0.007%, Windows Developer sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,134 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 | 2.11% |
| 99th percentile | 161.6% |
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 21:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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 | -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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 228K |
| Monday | 0% | 281K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 270K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 249K |
| Thursday | -2% | 242K |
| Friday | -3% | 250K |
| Saturday | +3% | 225K |
Best tweets
- Jun 9, 202625x their median
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- Jun 2, 20267.3x their median
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- Jun 12, 20265.9x their median
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- Jun 30, 20264.9x their median
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- Jul 16, 20264.6x their median
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- Jun 23, 20264.6x their median
β‘ Your terminal just got smarter. First introduced at #MicrosoftBuild, Intelligent Terminal makes shell context available to your favorite agents directly from your Terminal to help debug errors, run multi-step tasks, and stay in your flow. https://t.co/aL0wVRXXp6 https://t.co/5ItR209DJy
- Jun 26, 20264.4x their median
When I see a β.envβ file committed to the main branch https://t.co/O8pgQhzFF3
- Aug 11, 20263.4x their median
Intelligent Terminal 0.2 unlocks more ways to run, customize, and scale your agent workflows. Local model support β Run a different agent in each tab β Bring your agent into WSL β Get all the details from product manager Hamza Usmani here: https://t.co/qBAblRGlrn https://t.co/nI4uDlOr7G
- Jun 5, 20263.3x their median
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- Jun 8, 20263.0x their median
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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.
Recurring topics
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 34 interactions against 511K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 25% 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 6.5K times each, and 0.526% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.26% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video and 77% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 838 interactions, about 25x its own typical post.
- What is Windows Developer's engagement rate on X?
- Windows Developer (@windowsdev) has an engagement rate of 0.007%, based on the median interactions across 13 original posts from the last 30 days against 511,406 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.007%, Windows Developer sits above the 10th 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 @windowsdev have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 25% 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 @windowsdev post?
- Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.57 posts per day across the measured window.