Pirate Software engagement report
@PirateSoftware - 238K followers on X
Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 314 interactions against 238K followers, an engagement rate of 0.132%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 66% of 15,519 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 12K times each, and 2.68% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.93% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video, 6% are part of a thread and 6% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.9K interactions, about 22x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #gamedev, #heartbound, #indiedev.
Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 28, 2026. Recurring tags: #gamedev, #heartbound, #indiedev.
Compared with accounts its own size
Pirate Software's engagement rate beats 66% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 73% 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 0.132%, Pirate Software sits above the 50th percentile of the 156,711 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.127% to 0.604%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.003% |
| 25th percentile | 0.022% |
| 50th percentile | 0.127% |
| 75th percentile | 0.604% |
| 90th percentile | 2.32% |
| 99th percentile | 83.5% |
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 20:00 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% | 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 | 94% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 6% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 94% 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.
- 6% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 133 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
- Sep 8, 202622x their median
Twitch has removed the Just Catting category. Just Catting was originally a 2024 April Fools' joke, but it became permanent a week later because of positive feedback. It resulted in ~500,000 Watch Hours per year. https://t.co/A4T8JBi9WI
- Jan 2, 202412x their median
Lots of fake copies of me out there. These are the only official accounts. https://t.co/QUhwyr0BvM
- Sep 8, 20269.2x their median
Wardogs devs in their latest anti-cheat video at players they've banned for cheating. "If you open another account feel free to buy Wardogs again and will gladly take your money and ban you a second time." Most refreshing thing I've heard in ages. https://t.co/luOsY8hHRB
- Sep 21, 20263.2x their median
Wanted to discuss KPP because we owe it to you to be transparent and clear on what's happened. We've had issues, backpaid, and amended how we calculate KPP. KICK exists for the creators and their communities, so always hold us accountable. More inside. https://t.co/giaPg7nkxl
- Aug 26, 20263.1x their median
We lost one of the greats today. Feels terrible, man. https://t.co/aEymGuauLR
- Sep 7, 20263.0x their median
3 days left... https://t.co/wOrgD4hrEv
- Sep 14, 20262.9x their median
Been playing @WARDOGS a ton since launch. To all you Recon players out there. You watch dudes for money. https://t.co/tetVdFMjYP
- Sep 9, 20261.9x their median
Hey. Hope you're having a nice day. https://t.co/fCp1FzMSbi
- Sep 6, 20261.9x their median
Today is Peepers birthday. Say something nice to the little man. https://t.co/oVHxvzdmjw
- Aug 27, 20261.9x their median
XBOX is going to keep supporting physical games. The disc acts as a key to unlock the game on your account. If you sell the disc the unlock transfers with it. Really glad to see the "Do the opposite of Sony" strat is catching on with more companies. https://t.co/ChlsORnc5j
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 314 interactions against 238K followers, an engagement rate of 0.132%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 66% of 15,519 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 12K times each, and 2.68% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.93% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video, 6% are part of a thread and 6% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.9K interactions, about 22x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #gamedev, #heartbound, #indiedev.
- What is Pirate Software's engagement rate on X?
- Pirate Software (@PirateSoftware) has an engagement rate of 0.132%, based on the median interactions across 31 original posts from the last 30 days against 238,333 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.132%, Pirate Software sits above the 50th percentile of the 156,711 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 @PirateSoftware have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 66% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 @PirateSoftware post?
- Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.6 posts per day across the measured window.