Polkadot engagement report
@Polkadot - 1.6M followers on X
Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 186 interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 47% of 3,899 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 46K times each, and 0.407% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.87% 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, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 78% carry an image or video, 11% are part of a thread and 28% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 982 interactions, about 5.3x its own typical post.
Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Polkadot's engagement rate beats 47% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 33% 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 0.012%, Polkadot sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,701 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 | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 156.3% |
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 Thursday 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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Jul 31, 20265.3x their median
Aren't we all tired of the gazillion logins, installs, and new accounts demanded by every single service we use? Gavin Wood recently presented a paradigm shift in how everyday technology could look: Owned by yourself, smooth and simple UX, app previews before you download, and no logins. In the next step, Gavin Wood will lead the technical side of delivery directly at @paritytech, taking the proofs of concept the Parity team has laboured over and hardening them into robust, open-source software that people can actually use. Learn more about the Polkadot and Human Web3 vision below. 📺
- Jun 19, 20265.3x their median
In his second talk at Web3 Summit, Dr. Gavin Wood discussed alongside @byteboro from @paritytech options to elevate Polkadot with JAM on its mission to provide products for people on a scale of Web2 but with Web3 primitives. JAM gives Polkadot collective compute. Traditional blockchains can't do this. Neither can parachains. JAM computing is autonomous and spread across thousands of machines worldwide. JAM can provide a collective computer for the world, running on state-of-the-art tech. With 23 JAM implementers now passing the first milestone, the build is underway.
- Jul 9, 20264.7x their median
Devs, are you ready for your first mover advantage? The opportunity to build on everyday apps, which are fully private, secure, and decentralised. More updates are coming soon. https://t.co/OiGK3uRGUX
- Jul 23, 20264.1x their median
https://t.co/yitjmZw3gJ
- Jul 30, 20264.1x their median
Have you browsed through the apps deployed on the Polkadot Products Devnet? Every developer building on the devnet has the option to either keep their build unlisted or publish it to 'Browse'. 1. Open https://t.co/3L2M0RpulC 2. Which application is smiling at you? Yes, open that one. 3. A few to try: DotNS to register your own .dot domain, Playground to build a sample app in a guided environment or Mercado, a dummy marketplace. See what's possible for yourself. Next step: Link your builds in the comments 👇
- Aug 12, 20263.9x their median
What's the key difference between the current web and the one Polkadot is building? Agency. Agency over your actions and your destiny. The ability to decide for yourself instead of delegating your choices to a deliberate platform algorithm. https://t.co/e4QT3sd400
- Aug 16, 20263.9x their median
Privacy is about ownership. It's where the things that are yours stay yours. Your conversations, your money, and your search history. All of it. Self-custody furthermore means you don't have to ask permission for what's already yours. Where in your life do you already have privacy and self-custody?
- Jul 18, 20263.8x their median
Nobody wants technology. People want to send money, speak privately, and prove that they are human without giving up their identity. Technology is the machinery in the background. Products are the switches on the wall. You flick it, and the light turns on, taking the technology and infrastructure behind it for granted. Polkadot spent a decade building the machinery. Now it is building the switch. Four talks from @Web3Summit showcase the new Polkadot direction and what is being built right now. Whoever builds the switch controls the light. Watch the talks. 👇
- Aug 9, 20263.6x their median
Devs and non-devs are building on the Polkadot Products Devnet. Around 200 apps are already indexed on the decentralised web infrastructure. From marketplaces and payment systems to online document editing. Explore a selection of what's live below and drop links to your apps in the comments 👇 More applications to be featured in future posts.
- Jul 13, 20263.6x their median
The most private place in your life is behind closed doors. It's where you say what you actually mean, buy the slightly embarrassing thing, ask the question you would never ask out loud. Privacy isn't a hoodie in a dark room. It's simply the part of life that stays yours. Something is coming soon to bring real privacy closer to you: the Polkadot Products Devnet.
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 186 interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 47% of 3,899 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 46K times each, and 0.407% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.87% 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, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 78% carry an image or video, 11% are part of a thread and 28% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 982 interactions, about 5.3x its own typical post.
- What is Polkadot's engagement rate on X?
- Polkadot (@Polkadot) has an engagement rate of 0.012%, based on the median interactions across 18 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,585,389 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.012%, Polkadot sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,701 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 @Polkadot have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 47% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 @Polkadot post?
- Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.4 posts per day across the measured window.