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GENERATION IRON engagement report

@GenerationIron - 152K followers on X

Measured over 55 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.016%
of 152K followers
Per impression
0.681%
3.5K views on a typical post
Reach
2.35%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
24
interactions (median)
Saved
0.028%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.9/day
active 30% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 24 interactions against 152K followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 55 original posts, its engagement rate beats 25% 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 3.5K times each, and 0.681% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.31% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 55 posts sampled, 73% carry an image or video and 62% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 339 interactions, about 14x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #bodybuilding, #mrolympia, #nextchamp.

Measured over 55 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026. Recurring tags: #bodybuilding, #mrolympia, #nextchamp.

Compared with accounts its own size

GENERATION IRON's engagement rate beats 25% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 32% 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%, GENERATION IRON sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,261 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 205,261 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 15:00 UTC, and Thursday 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: 15:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 15:00 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video73% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link62% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 73% 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.
  • 62% 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 122 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 18, 202614x their median

    Can Ghana become Africa’s biggest Bodybuilding market? Watch Generation Iron 3 on https://t.co/pTBfIMfB20 https://t.co/yAlcR0fn6l

    302343019K viewsView on X
  • Sep 21, 202613x their median

    Chris Bumstead Explains How Growing Up with a Lisp Led to Creation of His Thavage Brand. Watch "The Raw Story" - Now Streaming for Free on Tubi. https://t.co/n3P3tGI9Qg

    283151128K viewsView on X
  • Sep 24, 20269.6x their median

    Many predict that Nick Walker will be 2026 Mr Olympia. What you guys think? #NextChamp https://t.co/QAQmiMDXjK

    202131516.6K viewsView on X
  • Sep 19, 20268.0x their median

    Is Samson ready to take his Mr Olympia 2026 title? https://t.co/aUDY99ypXB https://t.co/Z73vwCeHlz

    17610514.9K viewsView on X
  • Sep 20, 20264.8x their median

    And New…? #mrolympia https://t.co/Q6RZB4OX1X

    9751305.0K viewsView on X
  • Sep 24, 20264.3x their median

    Samson Dauda challenged his fellow competitors to pose down as the 2026 Olympia press conference came to a close - but Derek Lunsford did not participate. Full story here: https://t.co/p1rSYKWMDU https://t.co/NwIg73xAJw

    9110303.4K viewsView on X
  • Sep 18, 20263.1x their median

    Kai Greene Explains How He Competed in 3 Arnold Classics Back-to-Back-to-Back in 2016. #bodybuilding https://t.co/YHrHtYqwPA

    722004.7K viewsView on X
  • Sep 18, 20263.0x their median

    Guess who? #bodybuilding https://t.co/r1LUMW9p8U

    691305.0K viewsView on X
  • Sep 22, 20262.5x their median

    Do Bodybuilders feel jealous of Men’s Physique guys? Watch Generation Iron 3 on https://t.co/Oq6gsyhJoq https://t.co/cNqCyjUyO0

    551304.8K viewsView on X
  • Sep 23, 20262.1x their median

    Kai Greene Thinks It's Awesome That Fans Can Stream The Olympia for Free Online This Year. #bodybuilding https://t.co/ILOLjqYt0C

    491013.9K 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.

Recurring topics

#bodybuilding#mrolympia#nextchamp#olympia#olympia2026

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 24 interactions against 152K followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 55 original posts, its engagement rate beats 25% 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 3.5K times each, and 0.681% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.31% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 55 posts sampled, 73% carry an image or video and 62% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 339 interactions, about 14x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #bodybuilding, #mrolympia, #nextchamp.

What is GENERATION IRON's engagement rate on X?
GENERATION IRON (@GenerationIron) has an engagement rate of 0.016%, based on the median interactions across 55 original posts from the last 30 days against 152,313 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.016%, GENERATION IRON sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,261 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 @GenerationIron have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 25% 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 @GenerationIron post?
Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.9 posts per day across the measured window.

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