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Defected Records engagement report

@DefectedRecords - 255K followers on X

Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.005%
of 255K followers
Per impression
0.252%
5.2K views on a typical post
Reach
2.02%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
13
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.43/day
active 37% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 13 interactions against 255K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 17% of 20,444 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 5.2K times each, and 0.252% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.02% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.43 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 85% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 106 interactions, about 8.2x its own typical post.

Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Defected Records's engagement rate beats 17% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 15% 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 0.005%, Defected Records sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,475 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 205,475 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,893 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 16:00 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: 16:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 16:00 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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link85% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 100% 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.
  • 85% 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 432 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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

  • Jul 8, 20268.2x their median

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  • May 15, 20263.7x their median

    No phones, no distractions, just real house music lovers โค๏ธ Join us next week as we welcome Ella Knight, @GrooveArmada, Paisley Jensen & Prunk!! Grab your tickets now: https://t.co/nTp5fEaWoF๐Ÿ”— https://t.co/H5QjHZ7odC

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  • Mar 12, 20263.2x their median

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  • May 19, 20263.4x their median

    An absolute classic!๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ”ฅ We're very excited to welcome @GrooveArmada back to the Defected booth this Thursday at Chinois ๐Ÿ˜† Come and joins us if you're on the island https://t.co/V2rOv1xP2Z ๐Ÿ•บ๐Ÿป https://t.co/iGEZG12GSF

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  • Aug 24, 20262.5x their median

    Itโ€™s here! @AstonMartinF1 ๐Ÿค @defectedrecords The first I / AM DROP of the season is coming. ๐Ÿ”Š Stay tunedโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ‘€ https://t.co/rgx5pmNCi0

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  • May 14, 20262.6x their median

    Who agrees itโ€™s a legendary track? ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ”Š Weโ€™re very excited to welcome @kevinsaunderson from @InnerCityDet back in the Defected booth tonight at Chinois! If youโ€™re on the island you donโ€™t want to miss this one. Tickets: https://t.co/poEh6VVkTo #DefectedForever https://t.co/W0DV3UaPJV

    226212.1K viewsView on X
  • Jun 12, 20262.3x their median

    When R&B meets House๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ Tune in to this weeks editions of Defected Radio Show with @samdivine to hear more bangers just like Adam Ten's 'I Never Knew'๐Ÿ’ฅ Listen now: https://t.co/F3HTdR6DZ6 https://t.co/9nK89sUF0i

    1910102.0K viewsView on X
  • Jul 29, 20262.2x their median

    Weโ€™re ready, are you? ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท Defected Croatia 2026, itโ€™s time for One Last Dance. #OneLastDance #DefectedCroatia #DefectedFestivals https://t.co/i3uhAMYK0a

    222319.5K viewsView on X
  • Sep 7, 20261.9x their median

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  • Sep 3, 20261.9x their median

    Eliza Rose: live from Defected Chinois - stream now on YouTube ๐ŸŽฅ๐ŸŽถ Ahead of welcoming her back to the decks tonight, weโ€™ve released Elizaโ€™s full set recorded at Chinois - put it on, turn it up, and get ready to dance! Whoโ€™s joining us on the Ibiza dancefloor tonight? Watch now: https://t.co/90snsG9F1p

    241006.0K 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 13 interactions against 255K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 17% of 20,444 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 5.2K times each, and 0.252% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.02% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.43 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 85% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 106 interactions, about 8.2x its own typical post.

What is Defected Records's engagement rate on X?
Defected Records (@DefectedRecords) has an engagement rate of 0.005%, based on the median interactions across 13 original posts from the last 30 days against 254,881 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.005%, Defected Records sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,475 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 @DefectedRecords have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 17% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @DefectedRecords post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.43 posts per day across the measured window.

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