Mötley Crüe engagement report
@MotleyCrue - 765K followers on X
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 29, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 731 interactions against 765K followers, an engagement rate of 0.095%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% of 21,185 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 26K times each, and 2.80% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.41% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.43 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 92% carry an image or video and 62% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.2K interactions, about 4.4x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #mötleycrüe, #thereturnofthecarnivalofsinstour, #carnivalofsinstour.
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 29, 2026. Recurring tags: #mötleycrüe, #thereturnofthecarnivalofsinstour, #carnivalofsinstour.
Compared with accounts its own size
Mötley Crüe's engagement rate beats 70% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 76% 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 0.095%, Mötley Crüe sits above the 25th percentile of the 213,186 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.025% to 0.147%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.147% |
| 75th percentile | 0.698% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 82.9% |
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 Monday 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 | 92% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 62% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 92% 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.
- 62% 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 180 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
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 1, 20264.4x their median
9.1.89 Thank you for listening LISTEN TO DR. FEELGOOD: https://t.co/sPApjwowc3 https://t.co/rx8zySJRuh
- Sep 23, 20263.4x their median
Happy 43rd birthday to “Shout At The Devil”. Celebrate by listening to the album: https://t.co/fJOnVxA1tr https://t.co/oPO4uRsxm7
- Jul 4, 20262.7x their median
🔥 🇺🇸 Happy 4th Of July 🇺🇸 🔥 #mötleycrüe https://t.co/nKDXeFAl5v
- Mar 28, 20262.2x their median
It was even more insane than this!! #TheDirt #mötleycrüe https://t.co/KfpzXLVfxL
- Jun 11, 20261.8x their median
🔥 THE DIRT is coming to the big screen... for the first time EVER! FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY at @RegalMovies nationwide June 27! To celebrate our 45th anniversary Crüeheads will also get to watch the 1986 documentary MÖTLEY CRÜE: UNCENSORED in theaters for the first time. Don't miss this - Tickets on sale now. https://t.co/Vp6DOhiRD8 #MötleyCrüe #TheDirt #Regal
- Jul 18, 20261.5x their median
🔥 The Carnival Has Begun! 🔥 Last night we hit the stage in Pennsylvania just as the smoke cleared and it was just in time! We played ‘Take me to the top’ for the first time since 1984! So great to see everyone last night. We are really excited about taking this tour out on the road and seeing all of you along with our friends, Tesla and Extreme. See you tonight Buffalo 💥⚡️ 🎟️ - https://t.co/Rh6BAZ7uyR 📸: @DanLaDue #mötleycrüe #thereturnofcarnivalofsins
- Aug 26, 2026
⭐️ Thank you, Cincy! ⭐️ It was truly a special one. 📸: @danladue #mötleycrüe #returnofthecarnivalofsins https://t.co/4KtKjZ2q2w
- Sep 21, 2026
❤️🔥 Long Beach was one for the books! Thanks to all the Crüeheads for coming out and showing love. This is where it all started for us 45 years ago.❤️🔥 📸: @jamescoffmanmedia #MötleyCrüe #LongBeach #TheReturnOfTheCarnivalOfSinsTour https://t.co/sfLc7ROKwk
- Jul 27, 2026
We’re giving away a trip to meet us at ⚔️ THE RETURN OF THE CARNIVAL OF SINS! ⚔️ to support @cityofhope! VIP tickets to our Chula Vista show, the chance to meet us, a signed vinyl, plus flights, a hotel stay in California and more. 🎟️🔥 Help us raise funds for Breast Cancer research for your chance to win. 👉Enter to win at: https://t.co/HkPIYVwWkb
- Mar 28, 20261.6x their median
Wedding Day..... #TheDirt #mötleycrüe https://t.co/rWIeihS3pN
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 731 interactions against 765K followers, an engagement rate of 0.095%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% of 21,185 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 26K times each, and 2.80% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.41% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.43 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 92% carry an image or video and 62% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.2K interactions, about 4.4x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #mötleycrüe, #thereturnofthecarnivalofsinstour, #carnivalofsinstour.
- What is Mötley Crüe's engagement rate on X?
- Mötley Crüe (@MotleyCrue) has an engagement rate of 0.095%, based on the median interactions across 13 original posts from the last 30 days against 765,201 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.095%, Mötley Crüe sits above the 25th percentile of the 213,186 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 @MotleyCrue have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 70% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 @MotleyCrue post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.43 posts per day across the measured window.