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Bruce Buffer engagement report

@brucebuffer - 344K followers on X

Measured over 36 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 14, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.041%
of 344K followers
Per impression
1.27%
11K views on a typical post
Reach
3.25%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
142
interactions (median)
Saved
0.027%
3 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.33/day
active 87% of days
Peak time
20:00 UTC
Saturday

A typical post picks up 142 interactions against 344K followers, an engagement rate of 0.041%. Measured over 36 original posts, its engagement rate beats 45% 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 11K times each, and 1.27% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.24% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 36 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 10K interactions, about 73x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #bufflife, #itstime, #ufc.

Measured over 36 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 14, 2026. Recurring tags: #bufflife, #itstime, #ufc.

Compared with accounts its own size

Bruce Buffer's engagement rate beats 45% 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 52% 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 0.041%, Bruce Buffer sits above the 25th percentile of the 156,596 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.022% to 0.127%.

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p250.022%
p50 (median)0.127%
p750.604%
p902.32%
p9983.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 156,596 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 26,062 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 percentile0.003%
25th percentile0.022%
50th percentile0.127%
75th percentile0.604%
90th percentile2.32%
99th percentile83.4%

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 Saturday 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: 20:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 20:00 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: Saturday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Saturday
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 video94% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link25% 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.
  • 25% 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 156 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 31, 202673x their median

    My prediction is singer & guitarist Nene Royal, now in the America’s Got Talent finals, is going to win it all & become a future rock star! πŸ€©πŸŽΈπŸŽ™οΈπŸ˜‰ @neneroyalmusic https://t.co/WzruIor5co

    8.6K1.3K292197455K viewsView on X
  • May 5, 2021128x their median

    He had Bruce Buffer introduce his newborn baby boy πŸ˜‚πŸ‘ (via darrenrussell_/Instagram) https://t.co/eC56zNSt3u

    8.2K967106279View on X
  • Sep 5, 202654x their median

    First round in his UFC debut, in front of his home crowd. πŸ‘Š We've got a new contender in the lightweight division. Who's next for him... Max Holloway? πŸ”₯ https://t.co/f9iBIakVDp

    7.1K4214012135K viewsView on X
  • Aug 16, 202624x their median

    UFC 330 is over and now πŸ—£οΈπŸŽ™οΈIT'S PHILLY CHEESESTEAK TIME! First stop was Geno's for cheesesteak #1 πŸ˜‹ & 2nd stop was across the street to Pat's King Of Steaks for Cheesesteak #2 πŸ˜‹ #BUFFLIFE 😎 https://t.co/QXv3e9pYLZ

    3.2K1049110152K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 202616x their median

    I see a lot of posts wondering who will replace me whenever I decide to retire. πŸ€” The idea of a β€œRobo Buff” sounds pretty cool… if the UFC ever decides to build one! πŸ˜ŽπŸ—£οΈπŸŽ™οΈπŸ¦ΎπŸ¦Ώ#FORWHENITSTIME πŸ‘Š https://t.co/Fv4EDpt93b

    2.1K749714102K viewsView on X
  • Aug 10, 202612x their median

    🌞HAPPY SUNDAY!😎 #BUFFLIFE πŸ‘Š https://t.co/xd9gGgWLi8

    1.7K4018427K viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 20266.6x their median

    Always an honor to share emotional moments with our Octagon Warriors such as this one with Jean Silva after his 3rd rd. submission win in the main event at NOCHE UFC πŸ™ @Jeansilvamma96 https://t.co/8ukMMaS45L

    909276283K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 20266.5x their median

    Reminder β€” the fights start EARLY tomorrow! πŸ‘Š ⏰ Prelims: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET ⏰ Main Card: 12:00 PM PT / 3:00 PM ET UFC Paris: Hooker vs. Parnasse πŸ‡«πŸ‡·

    8673523131K viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 20264.8x their median

    πŸ—£οΈπŸŽ™οΈGetting Ready To Roar From The Octagon In My Home Town Of Philadelphia Tonight! #ITSTIME πŸ‘Š #BUFFLIFE 😎 https://t.co/nKmijAZrwu

    6312322116K viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 20264.1x their median

    How amazing would it be if we held a UFC event at the Colosseum in Rome? πŸ—£οΈπŸŽ™οΈπŸ‘ŠπŸ”₯ https://t.co/IaIVPuWweU

    5232723523K 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

#bufflife#itstime#ufc#ufc330#forwhenitstime

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 142 interactions against 344K followers, an engagement rate of 0.041%. Measured over 36 original posts, its engagement rate beats 45% 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 11K times each, and 1.27% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.24% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 36 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 10K interactions, about 73x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #bufflife, #itstime, #ufc.

What is Bruce Buffer's engagement rate on X?
Bruce Buffer (@brucebuffer) has an engagement rate of 0.041%, based on the median interactions across 36 original posts from the last 30 days against 343,990 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.041%, Bruce Buffer sits above the 25th percentile of the 156,596 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 @brucebuffer have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 45% 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 @brucebuffer post?
Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.33 posts per day across the measured window.

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