PCMag engagement report
@PCMag - 397K followers on X
Measured over 41 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1 interaction against 397K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 41 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% of 3,810 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 1.4K times each, and 0.07% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.357% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 41 posts sampled, 7% carry an image or video and 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 20 interactions, about 20x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #apple, #capcom, #gamescom.
Measured over 41 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #apple, #capcom, #gamescom.
Compared with accounts its own size
PCMag's engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,810 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 4% 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 under 0.001%, PCMag sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,960 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 | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 159.8% |
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 15:00 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 102K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 233K |
| Monday | 0% | 292K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 284K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 246K |
| Friday | -3% | 255K |
| Saturday | +3% | 229K |
Best tweets
- Aug 18, 202620x their median
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- Aug 31, 202614x their median
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- Aug 31, 20269.0x their median
The publishers are claiming $150,000 per work infringed, across tens of thousands of works, meaning potentially well over a billion in damages if the case is successful. https://t.co/K0nKqMt5cf
- Aug 31, 20268.0x their median
In his goodbye letter, Cook says his successor, John Ternus, is 'a brilliant engineer and thinker,' adding that he is 'obsessed with every detail.' https://t.co/9VPkXJ5S7j
- Aug 31, 20267.0x their median
"Out of the box" doesn’t mean "out of the woods." These essential first steps will tidy up Windows, lock it down, and get your new PC ready for real work and play. https://t.co/tVVMBDINb9
- Aug 31, 20265.0x their median
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- Aug 31, 20265.0x their median
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- Aug 31, 20264.0x their median
Framework Laptop 13 Pro Review: A MacBook Rival You Can Tear Down to the Studs https://t.co/IcStkKDmTs
- Aug 31, 20264.0x their median
Apple's MacBook Neo all but resets expectations for what a budget laptop should be, with a higher-quality build, a sharper screen, longer battery life, and quicker performance than most laptops near its price. #apple #macbookneo https://t.co/SrQwzeMGGT
- Aug 31, 20263.0x their median
MapQuest's app ranking hits number one for navigation as it keeps Lake Ontario's name intact. Meanwhile, Google Maps is facing some backlash for displaying the 'Lake America' name. https://t.co/5AcXEZzFf7
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 1 interaction against 397K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 41 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% of 3,810 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 1.4K times each, and 0.07% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.357% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 41 posts sampled, 7% carry an image or video and 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 20 interactions, about 20x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #apple, #capcom, #gamescom.
- What is PCMag's engagement rate on X?
- PCMag (@PCMag) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 41 original posts from the last 30 days against 397,401 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, PCMag sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,960 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 @PCMag have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,810 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 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 @PCMag post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.37 posts per day across the measured window.