Hot Topic engagement report
@HotTopic - 545K followers on X
Measured over 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on October 14, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 1 original post for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.
A typical post picks up 256 interactions against 545K followers, an engagement rate of 0.047%. Posts are seen about 16K times each, and 1.58% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.97% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.03 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 3% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.1K interactions, about 24x its own typical post. Only 1 original post have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
Measured over 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on October 14, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.047%, Hot Topic sits above the 25th percentile of the 201,665 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.142%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.142% |
| 75th percentile | 0.671% |
| 90th percentile | 2.53% |
| 99th percentile | 82.5% |
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 Sunday 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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 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.
- 100% 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 146 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
- Jun 18, 202624x their median
The 90’s called, they want their collection back! X-Men ‘97 pieces now available at Hot Topic: https://t.co/DAlAW51Vkw. https://t.co/WXkMWMsNsz
- Feb 6, 202623x their median
‼️ Iron Lung tees in-stores now and available online for pre-order ‼️ Bold Title: https://t.co/Q5PCqDZQ0x Blood Ocean T-Shirt: https://t.co/zJcQdDoN9l https://t.co/XXvDfNuP3B
- Jun 9, 202623x their median
just pop this in ur cart 🍿 https://t.co/Ycv0NW7k0F https://t.co/4eW28Wx923
- Nov 17, 202515x their median
The world of Teyvat is now at Hot Topic. ⚔️ New Genshin Impact tees available now: https://t.co/zqyQ78G7NB https://t.co/3OLqX80JFy
- Mar 20, 202614x their median
Did someone say adventure? ⁿᵒ… Well did someone say there’s a new The Amazing Digital Circus collection at Hot Topic? ʸᵉˢᵎ @glitch_prod https://t.co/SDffALuKVJ https://t.co/jCU3H56uXc
- Jun 4, 202612x their median
oh we're *sat* for the last act. 🍿 see you at the theaters? 👀 https://t.co/Thku2on4Kv @glitch_prod #tadc #theamazingdigitalcircus https://t.co/Z6mf9Kgf8m
- May 14, 202610x their median
celebrate pride with ur fav demons 😈 shop the collection: https://t.co/8o8UykuBDS https://t.co/iTA2m0JDrc https://t.co/OEuu2p004x
- Mar 4, 20268.5x their median
ONE PIECE | HOT TOPIC New collection drops 3.10.26. @ToeiAnimation @OnePieceAnime https://t.co/fdCJozuA7j
- Jul 4, 20265.1x their median
trip to hot topic this weekend? 🚌 meet us at the bus stop if ur in https://t.co/bGrVrHgVRD
- Jan 19, 20265.0x their median
Your style redemption arc starts now. New Hazbin Hotel pieces are here: https://t.co/WUUU6TgUnc https://t.co/Rkn2RtBVGJ
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 256 interactions against 545K followers, an engagement rate of 0.047%. Posts are seen about 16K times each, and 1.58% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.97% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.03 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 3% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.1K interactions, about 24x its own typical post. Only 1 original post have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
- What is Hot Topic's engagement rate on X?
- Hot Topic (@HotTopic) has an engagement rate of 0.047%, based on the median interactions across 1 original posts from the last 30 days against 544,542 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.047%, Hot Topic sits above the 25th percentile of the 201,665 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 @HotTopic have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @HotTopic post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.03 posts per day across the measured window.