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motortrend engagement report

@MotorTrend - 809K followers on X

Measured over 108 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 27, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.002%
of 809K followers
Per impression
0.267%
5.2K views on a typical post
Reach
0.65%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
14
interactions (median)
Saved
0.029%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.6/day
active 40% of days
Peak time
23:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 14 interactions against 809K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 108 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% of 21,185 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 5.2K times each, and 0.267% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.649% 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 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 108 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 213 interactions, about 15x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #cybercab, #motortrend, #tesla.

Measured over 108 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 27, 2026. Recurring tags: #cybercab, #motortrend, #tesla.

Compared with accounts its own size

motortrend's engagement rate beats 15% 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 19% 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 0.002%, motortrend sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,349 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.146%
p750.696%
p902.61%
p9983.1%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 212,349 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,452 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.146%
75th percentile0.696%
90th percentile2.61%
99th percentile83.1%

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 23:00 UTC, and Friday 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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 23:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 23:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video1% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link100% 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 159 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

  • Aug 21, 202615x their median

    The legendary Celica nameplate has been gone from the U.S. since the 2005 model year, but the 2028 Toyota Celica is expected to return with hybrid power and all-wheel drive. https://t.co/mDts6kcjEc

    1751913624K viewsView on X
  • Sep 26, 202611x their median

    Chevy’s Camaro is coming back after several years to once again bring the fight to Ford’s Mustang and Dodge’s Charger. https://t.co/lJJRBZ3iB4

    1281110119K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20268.3x their median

    Say hello to the 2029 Dodge Copperhead SRT that has Viper-inspired styling, a possible Hurricane or Hemi powertrain, and Nürburgring-level ambitions to challenge the Corvette ZR1 and Mustang GTD. https://t.co/mUsxw3Njop

    87717523K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 20267.6x their median

    The EV startup has big plans, including robotaxis, to make money. https://t.co/rhnE2dC8Of

    89116113K viewsView on X
  • Sep 26, 20266.6x their median

    If there’s any car company that can do it, it’s Toyota. https://t.co/r0O3dWiYPc

    71109217K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20266.5x their median

    If there’s any car company that can do it, it’s Toyota. https://t.co/chWcsntDai

    7984017K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20266.1x their median

    Audi has confirmed its new off-road wagon will be sold in the United States. Does its wide body preview the future RS6 Avant sport wagon? https://t.co/wFbQwzOiMc

    7771012K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20265.8x their median

    Lincoln is reportedly working on a premium SUV based on the Ford Bronco. Here’s how it might compete with the Lexus GX and Land Rover Defender. https://t.co/bv9IBhZckn

    6587112K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20265.1x their median

    And if it does wind up coming here, we’d probably only get the M3 Touring version. https://t.co/om7jkgBDBU

    6353013K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20264.5x their median

    BMW M is developing paddle-controlled performance stages and a unique soundtrack for its first electric M car. https://t.co/mdKwAC5sjl

    489339.3K viewsView on X

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

#cybercab#motortrend#tesla

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 809K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 108 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% of 21,185 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 5.2K times each, and 0.267% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.649% 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 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 108 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 213 interactions, about 15x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #cybercab, #motortrend, #tesla.

What is motortrend's engagement rate on X?
motortrend (@MotorTrend) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 108 original posts from the last 30 days against 808,814 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.002%, motortrend sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,349 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 @MotorTrend have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 15% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter 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 @MotorTrend post?
Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.6 posts per day across the measured window.

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