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9to5Mac engagement report

@9to5mac - 1.1M followers on X

Measured over 596 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.008%
of 1.1M followers
Per impression
0.291%
28K views on a typical post
Reach
2.66%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
82
interactions (median)
Saved
0.025%
7 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
24.8/day
active 103% of days
Peak time
13:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 82 interactions against 1.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 596 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% of 20,444 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 28K times each, and 0.291% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.66% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 24.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 596 posts sampled, 8% carry an image or video and 96% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.3K interactions, about 76x its own typical post.

Measured over 596 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

9to5Mac's engagement rate beats 30% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 20% 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 0.008%, 9to5Mac sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,956 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,956 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 13:00 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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 13:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 13:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%89K
01:00 UTC-2%90K
02:00 UTC-3%88K
03:00 UTC-4%94K
04:00 UTC-5%76K
05:00 UTC-4%75K
06:00 UTC-5%86K
07:00 UTC-5%93K
08:00 UTC-4%108K
09:00 UTC-4%124K
10:00 UTC-3%129K
11:00 UTC-3%141K
12:00 UTC-3%154K
13:00 UTC-3%167K
14:00 UTC-4%173K
15:00 UTC-2%176K
16:00 UTC-3%171K
17:00 UTC-3%159K
18:00 UTC-2%149K
19:00 UTC-2%141K
20:00 UTC-1%131K
21:00 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Formats this account uses

Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video8% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link96% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 8% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
  • 96% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
  • Its average post runs 116 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below the same accounts' other posts.

These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.

Best tweets

  • Oct 5, 202676x their median

    15 years without Steve. https://t.co/V55zHnWZAj

    5.7K4653931115K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 202674x their median

    When you leave 5GB of free iCloud storage exactly how you found it https://t.co/kap0IZbYX6

    5.8K2173514158K viewsView on X
  • Sep 18, 202650x their median

    Fun fact: Every Apple Store worldwide now has the iconic “hello” somewhere in the store to test iPhone 18 Pro zoom 📸 https://t.co/5oYvLZu2VU

    4.0K112107271K viewsView on X
  • Sep 10, 202649x their median

    iPhone 18 Pro’s color-matched back glass 👌 https://t.co/4Bh9A6zIyB

    3.8K1334929149K viewsView on X
  • Sep 8, 202647x their median

    Apple's first event under CEO John Ternus kicks off tomorrow 🫪 https://t.co/7vBotgNQ7U

    3.6K18437868K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 202642x their median

    Hello @johnternus đź‘‹ https://t.co/qB3YXWc88D

    3.4K815146K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 202635x their median

    Update complete. Apple has successfully installed John Ternus as CEO https://t.co/ihnbVwxYms

    2.6K160301386K viewsView on X
  • Sep 9, 202625x their median

    IShowSpeed just did a backflip in front of John Ternus while holding an iPhone Duo https://t.co/3c88Nk4fuM

    2.0K613628121K viewsView on X
  • Sep 9, 202625x their median

    It’s #AppleEvent  day! Hit like for a special animation ✨ https://t.co/oy0wofJWLw

    2.0K335321K viewsView on X
  • Sep 9, 202623x their median

    iPhone 18 Pro in black đź–¤ https://t.co/ELzSVGuE8V

    1.8K961613203K viewsView on X

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 82 interactions against 1.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 596 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% of 20,444 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 28K times each, and 0.291% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.66% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 24.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 596 posts sampled, 8% carry an image or video and 96% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.3K interactions, about 76x its own typical post.

What is 9to5Mac's engagement rate on X?
9to5Mac (@9to5mac) has an engagement rate of 0.008%, based on the median interactions across 596 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,060,233 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.008%, 9to5Mac sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,956 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 @9to5mac have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 30% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @9to5mac post?
Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 24.8 posts per day across the measured window.

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