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Color Theory engagement report

@colortheory - 1.9M followers on X

Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 1.9M followers
Per impression
0.057%
16K views on a typical post
Reach
0.81%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
9
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.6/day
active 47% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 9 interactions against 1.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,791 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 16K times each, and 0.057% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.813% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.6 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 38% carry an image or video, 8% are part of a thread and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 95 interactions, about 11x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #synthpop, #newwave, #retrowave.

Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #synthpop, #newwave, #retrowave.

Compared with accounts its own size

Color Theory's engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 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 0.001%, Color Theory sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,759 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.434%
p902.10%
p99160.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,759 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,964 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.434%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.4%

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 16:00 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.

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: 16:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 16:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
02:00 UTC-3%50K
03:00 UTC-4%54K
04:00 UTC-6%43K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%48K
07:00 UTC-5%52K
08:00 UTC-4%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
10:00 UTC-2%72K
11:00 UTC-3%79K
12:00 UTC-2%87K
13:00 UTC-3%95K
14:00 UTC-4%98K
15:00 UTC-2%101K
16:00 UTC-4%99K
17:00 UTC-2%91K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-1%80K
20:00 UTC-1%75K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-2%58K
23:00 UTC-2%52K
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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Monday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%232K
Monday0%290K
Tuesday-2%281K
Wednesday-1%252K
Thursday-2%245K
Friday-3%254K
Saturday+3%228K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Jun 5, 202611x their median

    Have you ever needed someone close enough to hurt you? As you might have guessed, my new single is a bit darker and more aggressive than my usual fare. Think Mesh. https://t.co/oxwMTTkp9T I think it's my best song in a long time, but what do I know? https://t.co/mNKx4HNZS3

    1579106.6K viewsView on X
  • Jul 17, 202610x their median

    What if the friendship you're afraid to risk is the one worth risking everything for? https://t.co/QfC1WpRvQI You can also hear β€œCouldn’t It Be Me?” on my newly launched Windows XP themed website: https://t.co/KLKttVvGZH https://t.co/neVrXA4pq2

    1183009.1K viewsView on X
  • Apr 3, 20267.0x their median

    What remains when the armor finally falls? β€œThe Naked Eye” is a cinematic single with Bond theme energy, tracing the slow dismantling of one's emotional defenses. https://t.co/8czN48VxNI Thank you for listening and sharing! πŸ™πŸ»πŸ–€ https://t.co/AmYvUpCIdd

    48123064K viewsView on X
  • May 1, 20264.9x their median

    Some distances are measured in meters. Some in careful inches. What does it cost to keep the people you love at arm's length? https://t.co/Ym1on0BMq3 https://t.co/UJNAVTckJc

    1231105.1K viewsView on X
  • Apr 29, 20263.9x their median

    So happy to say that my new album THE OBLIVION is out today! πŸͺ ✨ It’s been 5 years in the making and it’s so great to know that it’s finally out there in the universe! 🌌 Links to Spotify & other streaming platforms here… https://t.co/Kffe6WNOIY Ben x https://t.co/9Rk51JHe8F

    247406.2K viewsView on X
  • Apr 6, 20262.9x their median

    𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐃 π€π‘π“πˆπ’π“π’ 1⃣ #RevivalSynth π€ππ‘πˆπ‹ πŸπŸŽπŸπŸ” @andyjay24084 @iyatoyah Lonelyklown @komputerdave @NewArcades @Parralox @ThenComesS @mstrstmsc @colortheory @SorrowStories @X Promo @Stereo_in_Solo https://t.co/gDcrXO5el9 https://t.co/EKXTtz78Zt https://t.co/dUJEWUsKEn

    187103.5K viewsView on X
  • Mar 16, 20263.3x their median

    I’ve spent my β€œspare time” over the past few months re-mixing and remastering my 2021 album, Mages. I’ve replaced the old version everywhere I can, including Spotify, Apple Music, and Bandcamp. https://t.co/JpYzXNYHaG

    2132055K viewsView on X
  • Jun 3, 20262.8x their median

    β€˜The Oblivion’ vinyl has arrived! Wasn’t quite prepared for just how many boxes there are! πŸ˜… Having to find some creative storage solutions around the house. πŸ˜† Let the postal madness begin! πŸ“¦πŸ“¦πŸ“¦ https://t.co/UQ4BizzIXh

    212118.6K viewsView on X
  • Jul 13, 20262.2x their median

    Hope you've had the chance to mess around with Color Theory XP! ✨ New features: my upcoming release isn't just playable, it's fully mixable! Plus pinball, MS Paint, and it's mostly mobile-friendly. https://t.co/KLKttVvGZH https://t.co/UZq4SOhn7R

    1243110K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20261.9x their median

    Somewhere between forgive and forget, there's a swarm of killer bees. My new single "Time to Kill" is live on all platforms. https://t.co/I4w1tkYxae

    6110015K 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

#synthpop#newwave#retrowave#synthwave

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 9 interactions against 1.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,791 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 16K times each, and 0.057% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.813% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.6 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 38% carry an image or video, 8% are part of a thread and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 95 interactions, about 11x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #synthpop, #newwave, #retrowave.

What is Color Theory's engagement rate on X?
Color Theory (@colortheory) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 13 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,944,041 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, Color Theory sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,759 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 @colortheory have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 @colortheory post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.6 posts per day across the measured window.

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