Metal Hammer engagement report
@MetalHammer - 632K followers on X
Measured over 59 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 58 interactions against 632K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 59 original posts, its engagement rate beats 32% of 3,791 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 17K times each, and 0.335% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.73% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 59 posts sampled, 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.3K interactions, about 22x its own typical post.
Measured over 59 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Metal Hammer's engagement rate beats 32% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 26% 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 0.009%, Metal Hammer sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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 10:00 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 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% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 98K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 25, 202622x their median
Two icons met in the most unusual of circumstances and it left an indelible impression on Rob Halford https://t.co/lGqQwtg51F
- Aug 20, 20268.2x their median
Gothic Glow-Up Era loading... 🖤📷 Motionless In White are the latest cover stars for Metal Hammer. Available now. @MIWband 🖊 Paul Travers 📸 Jonathan Weiner https://t.co/q77Vk3zJp0
- Aug 12, 20267.3x their median
If it wasn’t for Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, the world would sound very, very different https://t.co/KXuEcz3k69
- Aug 10, 20265.2x their median
Rob Halford confirms Judas Priest are working on a new album as they bring some of heavy metal's greatest anthems home to Bloodstock https://t.co/BkUeAeYBpG
- Aug 21, 20263.9x their median
The Evanescence singer was unimpressed to hear the cruel remarks one of her fans received https://t.co/9P7jgl8wy5
- Aug 12, 20263.1x their median
The track will drop in the autumn and serve as the theme song of Riot Games’ Valorant Champions Tour https://t.co/RRbi8mPgVS
- Aug 12, 20263.0x their median
35 years ago, Metallica cemented themselves as the biggest metal band on Earth. This is your track-by-track guide to their landmark moment. https://t.co/HZFagEsg8x
- Aug 17, 20262.9x their median
The costumed hard rockers scrapped the first of three shows in Mexico City, which was set to be filmed for their upcoming documentary 2 Big To Rig https://t.co/79sebKHHti
- Aug 24, 20262.6x their median
Deftones light up east London with a spell-binding headline set in front of 50,000 fans at APE/Outbreak https://t.co/6vbN78dMRP
- Aug 24, 20262.4x their median
One metal icon and cancer survivor gave some helpful words to another https://t.co/EFntANCUoe
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 58 interactions against 632K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 59 original posts, its engagement rate beats 32% of 3,791 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 17K times each, and 0.335% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.73% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 59 posts sampled, 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.3K interactions, about 22x its own typical post.
- What is Metal Hammer's engagement rate on X?
- Metal Hammer (@MetalHammer) has an engagement rate of 0.009%, based on the median interactions across 59 original posts from the last 30 days against 632,287 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.009%, Metal Hammer sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 @MetalHammer have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 32% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 @MetalHammer post?
- Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.