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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

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 638K followers
Per impression
0.088%
5.7K views on a typical post
Reach
0.89%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
5
interactions (median)
Saved
0.018%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.63/day
active 17% of days
Peak time
13:00 UTC
Monday

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%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.432%
p902.10%
p99161.0%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,378 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,364 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 percentile0.432%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile161.0%

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.

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: 13:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 13:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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
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%230K
Monday0%286K
Tuesday-2%276K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%244K
Friday-3%252K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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

    63450151127K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20268.6x their median

    Next Mac mini refresh could land within days https://t.co/5EnfwsAxJj https://t.co/JeserFuVdK

    3544014K viewsView on X
  • 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

    2113012K viewsView on X
  • 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

    1433018K viewsView on X
  • 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

    123108.1K viewsView on X
  • 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

    140108.4K viewsView on X
  • 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

    113107.8K viewsView on X
  • 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

    1320013K viewsView on X
  • 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

    110015.3K viewsView on X
  • 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

    911116K 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

#apple#affiliate#iphone#applewatch#deals

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.

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