BleepingComputer engagement report
@BleepinComputer - 259K followers on X
Measured over 116 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 41 interactions against 259K followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 116 original posts, its engagement rate beats 31% of 15,519 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 8.5K times each, and 0.481% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.29% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 116 posts sampled, 7% carry an image or video and 99% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 935 interactions, about 23x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #cybersecurity, #sponsored, #googleworkspace.
Measured over 116 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026. Recurring tags: #cybersecurity, #sponsored, #googleworkspace.
Compared with accounts its own size
BleepingComputer's engagement rate beats 31% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 28% 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 0.016%, BleepingComputer sits above the 10th percentile of the 157,102 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.022%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.003% |
| 25th percentile | 0.022% |
| 50th percentile | 0.128% |
| 75th percentile | 0.604% |
| 90th percentile | 2.32% |
| 99th percentile | 83.4% |
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 14:00 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% | 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 7% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 99% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 7% 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.
- 99% 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 134 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
- Sep 22, 202623x their median
🚨 ShinyHunters claims it stole 2TB of data from the FBI, including information on current and former employees and applicants. The group claims it breached FBI systems using a PeopleSoft zero-day and defaced the FBI Jobs site. The FBI Jobs site is now offline for "maintenance".
- Sep 8, 202613x their median
‼️ BREAKING: Microsoft’s September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record-breaking 966 flaws. ⚠️ 2 actively exploited zero-days 🔴 105 total Critical flaws, including: 💥 81 remote code execution ⬆️ 20 privilege escalation ➡️ Learn more: https://t.co/K0G1SNh6hd
- Sep 7, 20267.4x their median
BigBear Microsoft 365 phishing service bypassed MFA at 258 organizations https://t.co/nX1khZOg0N https://t.co/nX1khZOg0N
- Sep 4, 20266.2x their median
New CrowdStrike 'FalconFlank' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges https://t.co/mRrJZXZW8z https://t.co/mRrJZXZW8z
- Sep 19, 20265.0x their median
ShinyHunters hacks Clop leak site, threatens to extort ransomware gang https://t.co/6bschKpqqu https://t.co/6bschKpqqu
- Sep 4, 20264.5x their median
🔐 Researchers have discovered 39 methods for compromising passkeys without breaking FIDO2 cryptography. 🛡️ @token explains how attackers instead target auth prompts, devices, credential syncing, enrollment, and recovery. ➡️ https://t.co/Dm8kr3ruC7 #cybersecurity #sponsored https://t.co/liSLYI1CiF
- Sep 21, 20264.2x their median
WordPress Click2Shell flaw lets hackers execute PHP on the server https://t.co/7s9HC5fUxU https://t.co/7s9HC5fUxU
- Sep 21, 20264.1x their median
Microsoft has reminded admins to migrate Entra ID users to phishing-resistant authentication methods to avoid sign-in disruptions after it retires SMS first-factor sign-in starting in February 2027. https://t.co/ZaWhshzvt0
- Sep 22, 20263.5x their median
Security researcher Abdelhamid Naceri (also known as Nightmare Eclipse) has released another Microsoft Defender zero-day exploit that blocks antivirus updates. https://t.co/CjU6Rzvvow
- Sep 3, 20263.4x their median
Microsoft says KB5120998 Windows update resets desktop settings https://t.co/fJJpZnVN5N https://t.co/fJJpZnVN5N
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
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 41 interactions against 259K followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 116 original posts, its engagement rate beats 31% of 15,519 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 8.5K times each, and 0.481% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.29% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 116 posts sampled, 7% carry an image or video and 99% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 935 interactions, about 23x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #cybersecurity, #sponsored, #googleworkspace.
- What is BleepingComputer's engagement rate on X?
- BleepingComputer (@BleepinComputer) has an engagement rate of 0.016%, based on the median interactions across 116 original posts from the last 30 days against 259,125 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.016%, BleepingComputer sits above the 10th percentile of the 157,102 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 @BleepinComputer have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 31% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 @BleepinComputer post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.97 posts per day across the measured window.