International Cyber Digest engagement report
@IntCyberDigest - 262K followers on X
Measured over 47 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 3, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 477 interactions against 262K followers, an engagement rate of 0.204%. Measured over 47 original posts, its engagement rate beats 72% 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 30K times each, and 1.59% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 11.5% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 47 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 60% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 16K interactions, about 33x its own typical post.
Measured over 47 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 3, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
International Cyber Digest's engagement rate beats 72% 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 56% 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 0.204%, International Cyber Digest sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,152 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.678%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 21:00 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.
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 | 0% 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.
- 0% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 524 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
- Sep 12, 202633x their median
‼️ BREAKING: Revolut handed over customers’ passport copies, verification selfies and full transaction histories to a malicious actor. The actor sent lawful government information-demand emails using a genuine government domain that passed domain authentication. Revolut later concluded they were not authentic. Affected customers were notified on Friday. What may have been disclosed ranges from name, date of birth and home address to account statements, withdrawal records and complete Bitcoin transaction history. The company says it has alerted the agency to the unauthorised mailbox on its domain, blocked the address and begun notifying regulators. It has not named the agency, explained how someone obtained a mailbox there, or given a number of affected customers. ZachXBT, who circulated the notices, believes the incident was limited in size and aimed at high-net-worth users.
- Sep 10, 202625x their median
‼️ BREAKING: Chinese labs DeepSeek and Moonshot were quietly relaying customer prompts to Claude through fraudulent accounts. Users thought they were using Chinese AI, but were actually getting answers from Claude. Their customers' sensitive data now is in Anthropic's hands. One user, who is tied to China's military, asked Kimi whether a person tracked across hundreds of CCTV cameras in Chengdu was behaving abnormally. DeepSeek passed along live credentials for a Russian government database, shared by an IT operator handling data from a Defense Ministry-linked agency. The two Chinese labs relayed customer prompts to Claude through fraudulent accounts and saved the exchanges to train their own models. Moonshot forwarded almost 300,000 customer requests in a single ten-day stretch. DeepSeek flagged users running its models inside coding tools like Claude Code and OpenCode, then routed some of them to Opus.
- Sep 29, 202612x their median
The CIA and West German intelligence secretly bought Swiss encryption maker Crypto AG in 1970, turning the machines governments paid to protect their secrets into a way to read them. Those governments had no idea the machines were rigged to read their messages. In the 1980s, Crypto devices accounted for roughly 40% of the foreign government messages the NSA decoded. The CIA didn't sell the company until 2018 and called the operation "the intelligence coup of the century."
- Sep 30, 20266.4x their median
‼️ BREAKING: DeepSeek is building software for Huawei's AI chips to break its dependence on Nvidia, open-sourcing six core tools that take direct aim at CUDA. Huawei backed the project, which adapts TileLang, a coding language DeepSeek calls simpler than Nvidia's CUDA, for Huawei's Ascend 950 AI chips.
- Oct 2, 20263.0x their median
❗️ Attackers could use iCloud to send email as any icloud[.]com address, including [email protected], while still passing SPF, DKIM and DMARC, the email authentication checks built to stop spoofing. Researchers found and reported two parsing flaws in Apple's mail servers. An early fix by Apple only blocked the word "admin" and the full patch took 18 months. Apple paid them $15,000.
- Sep 30, 20263.0x their median
❗️ Car apps are sending the vehicle's VIN and location for ad and tracking purposes to companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft, Snap, Adobe and data broker Acxiom, researchers found. Of the 30 carmaker apps tested, six sent the VIN to ad, tracking or analytics firms alongside an email, phone number or precise location, and four of those were made by General Motors. A VIN is a unique identifier that always stays with the car and can never be reset. The GM apps in question are myChevrolet, myCadillac, myBuick and myGMC.
- Sep 11, 20262.4x their median
‼️ Russians used Claude to build autonomous military kamikaze drones that pick their own targets. One of the target classes was "person," and the onboard model could order the detonation with no human in the loop. They flashed firmware onto live boards and wired up real hardware. Anthropic says the team trained the drones' vision system on scraped Ukrainian combat footage, sorting what the camera sees into "enemy" and "friendly" and allow-listing Russian equipment. A fixed coordinate in Donetsk Oblast served as the demonstration strike point. Nine accounts were tied to the group. Eight were used for ordinary freelance work.
- Oct 2, 20262.3x their median
‼️ BREAKING: Microsoft's official X account with over 13 million followers was hijacked to boost a fake Clippy account tied to a crypto scam. Microsoft wrote an apology threatening legal action, then deleted that post too. The account followed and reposted the impersonator and swapped its profile picture for Clippy.
- Oct 1, 20262.3x their median
❗️ 404 Media's "leaked video" on police beating Apple's 72-hour iPhone inactivity reboot shows a capability Magnet Forensics has openly advertised for more than a year and a half. No leak required: the phone-cracking firm markets the tool in question that disables the reboot timer and keeps seized iPhones easier to crack, with police praising it on its product page. Its own blog even lists the evidence iOS auto-deletes, from cached locations to recently deleted photos and iMessages, and says it can preserve iPhone data "indefinitely."
- Oct 1, 20262.2x their median
Encryption code was once officially classed as a munition in the U.S., on the same list as military weapons, combat equipment and explosives. Then a Berkeley mathematics PhD student sued the U.S. government in 1995 for the right to publish his own encryption code. Daniel Bernstein was told he needed an arms-export license just to put his "Snuffle" code online. In 1996, a federal judge became the first in the U.S. to rule that source code is speech protected by the First Amendment.
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 477 interactions against 262K followers, an engagement rate of 0.204%. Measured over 47 original posts, its engagement rate beats 72% 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 30K times each, and 1.59% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 11.5% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 47 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 60% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 16K interactions, about 33x its own typical post.
- What is International Cyber Digest's engagement rate on X?
- International Cyber Digest (@IntCyberDigest) has an engagement rate of 0.204%, based on the median interactions across 47 original posts from the last 30 days against 262,335 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.204%, International Cyber Digest sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,152 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 @IntCyberDigest have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 72% 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 @IntCyberDigest post?
- Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.63 posts per day across the measured window.