Marques Brownlee engagement report
@MKBHD - 6.1M followers on X
Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 11K interactions against 6.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.174%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 91% of 3,739 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 680K times each, and 1.57% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 11.1% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.7 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 83% carry an image or video and 39% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 164K interactions, about 15x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #newyork, #newyorkcity, #nyc.
Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #newyork, #newyorkcity, #nyc.
Compared with accounts its own size
Marques Brownlee's engagement rate beats 91% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 69% 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 0.174%, Marques Brownlee sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.431%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.431% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 51K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 71K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 229K |
| Monday | 0% | 284K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 273K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 250K |
| Thursday | -2% | 243K |
| Friday | -3% | 251K |
| Saturday | +3% | 226K |
Best tweets
- Jul 10, 202615x their median
That scroll to find your year of birth is becoming increasingly offensive smh
- Jun 21, 202614x their median
I wonder how many miles I scrolled with my thumb
- Jul 2, 20268.3x their median
We should talk more about why the disc price and the download price of a game are EVER the same
- Jul 13, 20207.6x their median
Being able to hear better information and change your opinion on something is a great human trait.
- Aug 12, 20264.8x their median
That was the coolest thing I've ever seen again https://t.co/f5qLNOHZLK
- Jun 25, 20264.7x their median
Memory price hikes have finally started hitting Apple. Today, they raised some base prices: Macbook Neo: $599 -> $699 Macbook Air: $1099 -> $1299 Macbook Pro: $1699 -> $1999 Mac Studio: $1999 -> $2499 iPad Air $599 - $749 iPad Pro: $999 -> $1199
- Jun 20, 20264.2x their median
Rory McIlroy hitting from the Windows XP default wallpaper https://t.co/izYEMCYNOg
- Jun 11, 20264.0x their median
Dad is a lifelong Knicks fan, and THIS GAME WAS ELECTRIC KNICKS WIN https://t.co/7RvdGCBCUU
- Aug 7, 20263.9x their median
A thunderstorm passes over lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in New York, seen from the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building, Friday evening #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork @empirestatebldg #thunderstorm https://t.co/e2rWpv7JR8
- Jul 10, 20263.8x their median
Instagram decided to roll out a new “Muse AI” feature, that lets users create AI images based on people’s Instagram photos. Then they opted in EVERYONE with a public account To opt out: Click your profile picture 3 bars in the top right scroll down to "Sharing and reuse" Toggle off for both Posts and for Reels
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 11K interactions against 6.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.174%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 91% of 3,739 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 680K times each, and 1.57% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 11.1% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.7 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 83% carry an image or video and 39% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 164K interactions, about 15x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #newyork, #newyorkcity, #nyc.
- What is Marques Brownlee's engagement rate on X?
- Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) has an engagement rate of 0.174%, based on the median interactions across 18 original posts from the last 30 days against 6,129,690 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.174%, Marques Brownlee sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,261 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 @MKBHD have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 91% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts), which puts it in the top 10% 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 @MKBHD post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.7 posts per day across the measured window.