Kotaku engagement report
@Kotaku - 2.4M followers on X
Measured over 551 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 14 interactions against 2.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Posts are seen about 10K times each, and 0.139% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.42% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 18.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 551 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 20K interactions, about 1458x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #deals, #deal, #partnerscontent.
Measured over 551 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026. Recurring tags: #deals, #deal, #partnerscontent.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.001%, Kotaku sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,491 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.677% |
| 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 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 | 1% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 1% 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 141 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
- Oct 15, 20261458x their median
Democratic Congress member Ritchie Torres is introducing legislation in Congress to regulate digital video game ownership. "A game that can be taken away the moment a company pulls the plug is not a purchase. It is a rental disguised as a sale." https://t.co/bcgECOmnR2
- Sep 21, 2026496x their median
Northernlion Addresses His Friend's U.S. Army–Sponsored Twitch Streams: "It's So Far Beyond The Bounds Of What Is Acceptable To Me" https://t.co/5beO03qNdV
- Oct 2, 2026487x their median
I Don't Want To Play Your AI-Generated Mod That Puts Skate 3 Inside Of Modern Warfare 2 Inside Of Minecraft: https://t.co/mO5YtsmtfU
- Sep 22, 2026479x their median
Gears of War: E-Day Story Director Laid Off Just Four Days After Celebrating The Game Going Gold https://t.co/9kxClpd6tN
- Sep 14, 2026338x their median
Well this sucks https://t.co/NmK1BL6mE0
- Aug 21, 2026253x their median
Double Fine now officially owns all of its games made under Xbox and their publishing rights. https://t.co/sCja5TMyc2
- Sep 1, 2026244x their median
Bit Reactor stopped paying up to 80 percent of the studio's staff ahead of Star Wars Zero Company's launch after money reportedly ran out. "It is sick and weird to have all of these EA and Disney folks as well as Bit Reactor Senior staff making all of these 10/10 posts about Star Wars Zero Company being such a huge success and praising the work of the team while seemingly concealing the fact that the team was furloughed weeks ago," a developer who left the studio back in May wrote online this week. https://t.co/vvrtQ3cCNo
- Oct 7, 2026153x their median
The critics got this one dead wrong: Tom Cruise' Digger is 100% "certified fresh" https://t.co/pJ7wBZusPy
- Oct 21, 2026150x their median
The One Thing EA Has Always Been Good At Is Killing Video Game Studios https://t.co/r83oVrePF6
- Oct 22, 2026148x their median
A source tells Kotaku that Gears of War: E-Day cost over $500 million to make. Sales estimates have been weak despite earning the highest Metacritic score since the original trilogy. If it was never going to recoup its expenses, maybe it could achieve more as an Xbox console exclusive https://t.co/2FLyN66o2Y
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 14 interactions against 2.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Posts are seen about 10K times each, and 0.139% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.42% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 18.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 551 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 20K interactions, about 1458x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #deals, #deal, #partnerscontent.
- What is Kotaku's engagement rate on X?
- Kotaku (@Kotaku) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 551 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,398,052 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Kotaku sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,491 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 @Kotaku have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @Kotaku post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 18.53 posts per day across the measured window.