Hack The Box engagement report
@hackthebox_eu - 251K followers on X
Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 64 interactions against 251K followers, an engagement rate of 0.025%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 38% of 15,519 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 8.0K times each, and 0.796% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.20% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.7 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 84% carry an image or video, 5% are part of a thread and 68% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 448 interactions, about 7.0x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #holmes26, #cybersecurity, #hacking.
Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 26, 2026. Recurring tags: #holmes26, #cybersecurity, #hacking.
Compared with accounts its own size
Hack The Box's engagement rate beats 38% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 39% 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 0.025%, Hack The Box sits above the 25th percentile of the 157,374 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.022% to 0.128%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.003% |
| 25th percentile | 0.022% |
| 50th percentile | 0.128% |
| 75th percentile | 0.604% |
| 90th percentile | 2.32% |
| 99th percentile | 83.4% |
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 15:00 UTC, and Friday 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% | 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 84% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 68% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 84% 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.
- 68% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 407 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 29, 20267.0x their median
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- Jul 8, 20263.8x their median
A new module is now live on Hack The Box Academy and Enterprise platforms: Red Team Mindset. Built for offensive security learners, this medium-difficulty module explores the fundamentals of red teaming — what it is, why it matters, and how red team engagements are structured from start to finish. Learn the differences between red teaming and penetration testing, understand the roles of red, blue, and white teams, and explore key concepts around engagement lifecycle, ethical obligations, communication strategies, and the evolving role of AI in adversary simulation. Tier: 3 Difficulty: Medium Category: Offensive Start learning now >>> https://t.co/bO4i23tduJ #HackTheBox #HTBAcademy #RedTeam #OffensiveSecurity #Cybersecurity #CyberTraining #PenetrationTesting #AdversarySimulation #CyberSkills #InfoSec
- Jul 10, 20263.1x their median
A new module is now live on Hack The Box Academy: AI-Augmented Pentesting Foundations. Built for offensive security learners, this easy-difficulty module introduces the fundamentals of AI-augmented penetration testing, covering key concepts, safe use, prompt engineering, and practical prompting techniques. Learn how AI can support the pentesting workflow while keeping technical thinking, validation, and responsible use at the center of the process. Tier: 3 Difficulty: Easy Category: Offensive Start learning now >>> https://t.co/AfkvoUg73W #HackTheBox #HTBAcademy #AIPentesting #Pentesting #OffensiveSecurity #Cybersecurity #CyberTraining #PromptEngineering #AI #InfoSec
- Jun 23, 20262.6x their median
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- Aug 9, 20262.6x their median
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- Jul 4, 20262.6x their median
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- Aug 13, 20262.5x their median
This one hits a little different. Hack The Box has been named the 2026 Community Choice Winner in the Cybersecurity Training category of the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. When we started back in 2017, our mission was to build a product with the community, and for the community. Nearly a decade later, this milestone is proof that we haven’t lost sight of that. We’re grateful to everyone who voted for us — from students, red and blue teamers, and cybersecurity practitioners to customers, partners, and enterprise leaders. Thank you for continuing to put your trust in HTB. We promise to keep pushing cybersecurity training forward. Read more >>> https://t.co/FTgGAulTtQ #Cybersecurity #CyberSecurityAwards #CommunityFirst #Infosec #CyberTraining
- Aug 8, 20262.3x their median
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- Jul 5, 20262.1x their median
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- Aug 22, 20262.1x their median
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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 64 interactions against 251K followers, an engagement rate of 0.025%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 38% of 15,519 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 8.0K times each, and 0.796% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.20% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.7 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 84% carry an image or video, 5% are part of a thread and 68% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 448 interactions, about 7.0x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #holmes26, #cybersecurity, #hacking.
- What is Hack The Box's engagement rate on X?
- Hack The Box (@hackthebox_eu) has an engagement rate of 0.025%, based on the median interactions across 19 original posts from the last 30 days against 251,444 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.025%, Hack The Box sits above the 25th percentile of the 157,374 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 @hackthebox_eu have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 38% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @hackthebox_eu post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.7 posts per day across the measured window.