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Cursor engagement report

@cursor_ai - 476K followers on X

Measured over 8 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.

Engagement

Top 10% for its size
Per follower
0.714%
of 476K followers
Per impression
0.594%
571K views on a typical post
Reach
120.3%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
3.4K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.102%
580 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.83/day
active 37% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 3.4K interactions against 476K followers, an engagement rate of 0.714%. Measured over 8 original posts, its engagement rate beats 94% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 571K times each, and 0.594% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 119.9% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.83 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 8 posts sampled, 75% carry an image or video, 63% are part of a thread and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 5.1x its own typical post.

Measured over 8 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Cursor's engagement rate beats 94% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 38% 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 0.714%, Cursor sits above the 75th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the top 25% band, which runs 0.433% to 2.10%.

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p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.433%
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p99160.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,654 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,977 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 percentile0.433%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.5%

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 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.

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%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%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
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%101K
16:00 UTC-3%98K
17:00 UTC-2%91K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-1%80K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-1%57K
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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Thursday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%231K
Monday0%288K
Tuesday-2%278K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%245K
Friday-3%253K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Jun 16, 20265.1x their median

    We're launching code storage and git hosting. Origin gives teams and agents a place to host, review, and collaborate on code. Available this fall. Join the waitlist. https://t.co/uamaIarJXY

    15K1.3K5798295.7M viewsView on X
  • Jul 21, 20263.7x their median

    We've doubled usage limits for all individual and teams plans! These limits apply to Grok, Composer, and any new Cursor models.

    11K8096793041.4M viewsView on X
  • Jul 27, 20263.0x their median

    Kimi K3 is now in Cursor! It scores close to the frontier on CursorBench. It's available on US-based inference thanks to our partners Fireworks, Together, and Baseten. Zero Data Retention is also supported.

    9.2K4742751781.0M viewsView on X
  • Jul 28, 20262.7x their median

    Today we're launching Cursor Start, a new ₹649/month plan for developers in India. Start includes generous access to Grok 4.5 and Composer, so you can plan, build, test, and ship with agents every day. https://t.co/y2ZYlyzfR6

    7.2K4607236642.2M viewsView on X
  • Jul 9, 20262.5x their median

    GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now available in Cursor. On CursorBench, Sol scores 67.2%.

    7.9K23322197685K viewsView on X
  • Jun 22, 20262.4x their median

    Three announcements from our keynote at Compile, including how we're training a new model with SpaceX. https://t.co/oV7IaEuZm2

    6.9K7342461121.3M viewsView on X
  • Jun 9, 20262.1x their median

    Claude Fable 5 is now available in Cursor. It sets a new state of the art on CursorBench at 72.9%, 8 points above the previous best. https://t.co/L3Wm8mSYq9

    6.1K4532612661.2M viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 20262.1x their median

    We're open-sourcing Mixture-of-Kittens (MoK), our MoE training megakernel for NVL72s. It fuses all Mixture-of-Experts communication and computation into a single, fully deterministic kernel, and runs up to 2.37x faster than the strongest public baselines. https://t.co/yHu5E6RXp9

    6.1K475234165578K viewsView on X
  • Jul 24, 20262.1x their median

    Claude Opus 5 is now available in Cursor! It matches Fable 5 on CursorBench (66.7 vs 66.5 at default effort) at half the price. Unlike Fable, it's also compatible with Zero Data Retention.

    6.5K27115483350K viewsView on X
  • Jun 17, 20262.0x their median

    It’s now easier to move local agents to the cloud so they can keep working with your laptop closed. Prompt Cursor from your phone, run many agents in parallel, and get back PRs with demos of their work. https://t.co/vuh5aZbH3e

    5.7K791263941.2M 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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 3.4K interactions against 476K followers, an engagement rate of 0.714%. Measured over 8 original posts, its engagement rate beats 94% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 571K times each, and 0.594% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 119.9% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.83 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 8 posts sampled, 75% carry an image or video, 63% are part of a thread and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 5.1x its own typical post.

What is Cursor's engagement rate on X?
Cursor (@cursor_ai) has an engagement rate of 0.714%, based on the median interactions across 8 original posts from the last 30 days against 475,933 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.714%, Cursor sits above the 75th percentile of the 36,654 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 @cursor_ai have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 94% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the top 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 @cursor_ai post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.83 posts per day across the measured window.

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