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Elon Musk engagement report

@elonmusk - 242M followers on X

Measured over 157 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.001%
of 242M followers
Per impression
0.122%
1.7M views on a typical post
Reach
0.71%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
2.1K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.017%
298 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
35.87/day
active 103% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 2.1K interactions against 242M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Posts are seen about 1.7M times each, and 0.122% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.71% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 35.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 157 posts sampled, 62% carry an image or video and 22% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 379K interactions, about 116x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #davidletterman, #elonmusk, #joehansenfacts.

Measured over 157 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026. Recurring tags: #davidletterman, #elonmusk, #joehansenfacts.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.001%, Elon Musk sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,491 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.677%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,491 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,891 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.677%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 17:00 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: 17:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 17:00 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video62% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link22% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 62% 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.
  • 22% 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 396 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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

  • Jan 18, 2024116x their median

    Good explanation of what makes countries more or less prosperous https://t.co/D254kMpgDh

    301K61K11K5.6K48M viewsView on X
  • Oct 16, 2026126x their median

    Going forward, all advertising on 𝕏 will be subject to a reasonable esthetic standard. Advertisers who post ads that are ugly, shrill, strident or overstate claims about their product will be barred from advertising.

    235K16K10.0K2.6K11M viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 202694x their median

    Friend just sent me this 😂 https://t.co/cZKDJXe1cR

    178K9.2K8.1K58713M viewsView on X
  • Sep 6, 202689x their median

    If you’re bored and want to find something to be upset about, this app will take care of that need!

    159K12K12K3.1K9.4M viewsView on X
  • Jul 24, 202664x their median

    Text no longer retained for this post.

    123K12K4.6K1.5K8.8M viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 202655x their median

    Any censorship required by governments is now clearly visible

    114K21K3.7K1.4K11M viewsView on X
  • Oct 8, 202662x their median

    Excited to announce that all super intelligence organizations have now jointly agreed to the ultimate in AI/SI safety: Moving all testing to Delta Airlines flights, where accessing the Internet is utterly impossible!

    116K7.2K4.9K9178.3M viewsView on X
  • Jul 15, 202659x their median

    Once we have completed our review for security vulnerabilities, we will make the entire codebase of 𝕏 open source, with no exceptions. Moreover, we will invite third party reviewers to examine the system that is running to confirm that the open source code is what is running. Trust through total transparency is the only thing that should be believed.

    109K12K5.8K2.3K7.3M viewsView on X
  • Oct 20, 202650x their median

    As crazy as this sounds, $1T in SpaceX revenue in 2028 is no longer impossible https://t.co/jF3Wue95nL

    92K7.3K4.6K1.0K6.7M viewsView on X
  • May 15, 202628x their median

    Je veux prĂ©senter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfantĂ© la French Theory (qui a enfantĂ© la pire des merdes idĂ©ologiques : le wokisme). Nous avons donnĂ© au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'aprĂšs-68, nous avons donnĂ© Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants qui ont fabriquĂ©, dans l'Ă©lĂ©gance de notre langue, l'arme idĂ©ologique qui paralyse aujourd'hui l'Occident. Il faut comprendre ce qu'ils ont fait. Foucault a enseignĂ© que la vĂ©ritĂ© n'existe pas, qu'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir dĂ©guisĂ©s en savoir. Que la science, la raison, la justice, l'institution mĂ©dicale, l'Ă©cole, la prison, la sexualitĂ©, tout n'est qu'une mise en scĂšne de la domination. Derrida a enseignĂ© que les textes n'ont pas de sens stable, que tout signifiant glisse, que toute lecture est une trahison, que l'auteur est mort et que le lecteur rĂšgne. Deleuze a enseignĂ© qu'il fallait prĂ©fĂ©rer le rhizome Ă  l'arbre, le nomade au sĂ©dentaire, le dĂ©sir Ă  la loi, le devenir Ă  l'ĂȘtre, la diffĂ©rence Ă  l'identitĂ©. Pris isolĂ©ment, ce sont des thĂšses discutables. CombinĂ©es, exportĂ©es, vulgarisĂ©es, elles forment un systĂšme. Et ce systĂšme est un poison. Car voici ce qui s'est passĂ©. Ces textes, illisibles en France, ont traversĂ© l'Atlantique. Les dĂ©partements de Yale, de Berkeley, de Columbia les ont absorbĂ©s dans les annĂ©es 80. Ils y ont trouvĂ© un terreau qui n'existait pas chez nous : le puritanisme amĂ©ricain, sa culpabilitĂ© raciale, son obsession identitaire. La French Theory s'est mariĂ©e Ă  ce substrat, et l'enfant de ce mariage s'appelle le wokisme. Judith Butler lit Foucault et invente le genre performatif. Edward Said lit Foucault et invente le post-colonialisme acadĂ©mique. KimberlĂ© Crenshaw hĂ©rite du cadre et invente l'intersectionnalitĂ©. À chaque Ă©tape, la matrice est française : il n'y a pas de vĂ©ritĂ©, il n'y a que du pouvoir, donc toute hiĂ©rarchie est suspecte, toute institution est oppressive, toute norme est violence, toute identitĂ© est construite donc nĂ©gociable, toute majoritĂ© est coupable. VoilĂ  comment trois philosophes parisiens, qui n'ont probablement jamais imaginĂ© leurs consĂ©quences pratiques, ont fourni le logiciel d'exploitation Ă  une gĂ©nĂ©ration entiĂšre d'activistes, de bureaucrates universitaires, de DRH, de journalistes, de lĂ©gislateurs. VoilĂ  comment on a obtenu une civilisation qui ne sait plus dire si une femme est une femme, si sa propre histoire mĂ©rite d'ĂȘtre dĂ©fendue, si le mĂ©rite existe, si la vĂ©ritĂ© se distingue de l'opinion. C'est de la merde pour une raison simple, et il faut la dire calmement. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers : la croyance qu'il existe une vĂ©ritĂ© accessible Ă  la raison, la croyance qu'il existe un bien distinct du mal, la croyance qu'il existe un hĂ©ritage Ă  transmettre. La French Theory a entrepris de dynamiter les trois. Pas par mĂ©chancetĂ©. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui les avait nourris. Mais le rĂ©sultat est lĂ . Une gĂ©nĂ©ration entiĂšre a appris Ă  dĂ©construire et n'a jamais appris Ă  construire. Une gĂ©nĂ©ration entiĂšre sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer. Une gĂ©nĂ©ration entiĂšre voit le pouvoir partout et la beautĂ© nulle part. Je m'excuse parce que nous, Français, avons une responsabilitĂ© particuliĂšre. C'est notre langue, nos universitĂ©s, nos Ă©diteurs, notre prestige qui ont donnĂ© Ă  ce nihilisme son emballage chic. Sans la lĂ©gitimitĂ© de la Sorbonne et de Vincennes, ces idĂ©es n'auraient jamais traversĂ© l'ocĂ©an. Nous avons exportĂ© le doute comme d'autres exportent des armes. Ce qui se construit maintenant, en silicon valley, dans les labos d'IA, dans les startups, dans les ateliers, dans tous les lieux oĂč des gens fabriquent encore des choses au lieu de les dĂ©construire, c'est la rĂ©ponse. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les bĂątisseurs, pas par les commentateurs. Par ceux qui croient que la vĂ©ritĂ© existe et qu'elle vaut qu'on s'y consacre. Par ceux qui assument une hiĂ©rarchie du beau, du vrai, du bon, et qui n'ont pas honte de la transmettre. Alors pardon. Et au travail.

    74K22K4.3K3.2K57M 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

#davidletterman#elonmusk#joehansenfacts#tesla

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 2.1K interactions against 242M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Posts are seen about 1.7M times each, and 0.122% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.71% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 35.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 157 posts sampled, 62% carry an image or video and 22% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 379K interactions, about 116x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #davidletterman, #elonmusk, #joehansenfacts.

What is Elon Musk's engagement rate on X?
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 157 original posts from the last 30 days against 241,530,455 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, Elon Musk sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,491 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 @elonmusk have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @elonmusk post?
Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 35.87 posts per day across the measured window.

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