Cult of Mac engagement report
@cultofmac - 638K followers on X
Measured over 37 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 5 interactions against 638K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 37 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% of 3,758 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 5.7K times each, and 0.088% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.895% 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, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 37 posts sampled, 73% carry an image or video, 5% are part of a thread and 95% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 710 interactions, about 142x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #apple, #affiliate, #iphone.
Measured over 37 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026. Recurring tags: #apple, #affiliate, #iphone.
Compared with accounts its own size
Cult of Mac's engagement rate beats 8% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 7% 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%, Cult of Mac sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,378 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 | 0.432% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 161.0% |
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 13:00 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 25, 2026142x their median
Apple posted a behind-the-scenes look at the making of its Mac mini promo video. https://t.co/U5ZCYOkTxh
- Aug 25, 20268.6x their median
Next Mac mini refresh could land within days https://t.co/5EnfwsAxJj https://t.co/JeserFuVdK
- Aug 24, 20265.0x their median
We know almost everything about the folding iPhone, and it's time to start getting excited! 👇 Follow the link and learn more: 👇 https://t.co/y86BfWjeM6 #Apple #iPhone #foldingiphone https://t.co/khBW0AFgPg
- Aug 22, 20264.0x their median
This DIY hack adds a Touch ID sensor to your Mac https://t.co/3Du2xs4FBt https://t.co/AoRBsdL1Q3
- Aug 24, 20263.2x their median
The seventh developer betas of iOS 27, macOS 27, iPadOS 27, watchOS 27 and tvOS 27 can be downloaded starting now. The sixth round came a week ago, as the pace of releases has sped up with full release less than a month away. It's too soon to say what changes these betas include, but it's likely they are primarily bug fixes. #Apple #iOS27 #macOS27
- Aug 25, 20263.0x their median
Skip Apple’s price hike and grab a 12.9-inch M1 iPad Pro for just $459.99 https://t.co/7xu6Njd13G https://t.co/JywyZp9aiU
- Aug 24, 20263.0x their median
Apple-related news you may have missed over the weekend: Apple Watch Series 12: Everything we know so far https://t.co/JB8Au4Sgxi Why you should never put a wet iPhone in a bowl of rice https://t.co/KiTgnxCTbT This DIY hack adds a Touch ID sensor to your Mac https://t.co/qVoEk9fBeA Apple’s super-crazy week of leaks [Cult of Mac podcast 29] https://t.co/Tn2jQeeCOW Why it’s a great day to buy an Apple Pencil Pro https://t.co/e0gzpVDlXa
- Aug 24, 20263.0x their median
Next iMac refresh may bring more power but few other changes https://t.co/U1qTodf3Cu https://t.co/RL6RHa7wXL
- Aug 24, 20262.4x their median
August 24, 2011 was Steve Jobs’s last day as Apple CEO. He resigned as his health declined. He was only 56, but lived just a few more months. 👇 Follow the link and learn more: 👇 https://t.co/JwUsHp9DC1 #Apple #SteveJobs
- Aug 23, 20262.4x their median
Why you should never put a wet iPhone in a bowl of rice https://t.co/0NHcdRITGu https://t.co/3WXcwISe2Z
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 5 interactions against 638K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 37 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% of 3,758 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 5.7K times each, and 0.088% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.895% 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, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 37 posts sampled, 73% carry an image or video, 5% are part of a thread and 95% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 710 interactions, about 142x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #apple, #affiliate, #iphone.
- What is Cult of Mac's engagement rate on X?
- Cult of Mac (@cultofmac) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 37 original posts from the last 30 days against 637,976 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Cult of Mac sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,378 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 @cultofmac have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 8% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 @cultofmac post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.63 posts per day across the measured window.