Lifehacker engagement report
@lifehacker - 3.3M followers on X
Measured over 302 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 2 interactions against 3.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 302 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% of 3,774 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 6.8K times each, and 0.029% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.207% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 10.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 302 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 236 interactions, about 118x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #beforeandafter, #diyprojects, #homeimprovement.
Measured over 302 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #beforeandafter, #diyprojects, #homeimprovement.
Compared with accounts its own size
Lifehacker's engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 1% 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 under 0.001%, Lifehacker sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,521 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 | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 22:00 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
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- Aug 21, 202615x their median
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- Aug 22, 202613x their median
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- Aug 31, 20268.0x their median
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- Aug 26, 20267.0x their median
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- Aug 18, 20266.5x their median
You can now run a local LLM on your phone, and there are good reasons to. Here's how it's done. Link: https://t.co/sm1FECITMy https://t.co/LrhXsFYtlV
- Aug 16, 20265.0x their median
“Silo” is a pitch-perfect sci-fi mystery about a segmented, post-apocalyptic society built on dark secrets. If you want more of that, there’s one movie that should be on your must-watch list. Link: https://t.co/tbhURKR09s https://t.co/amU1mYl8x7
- Aug 16, 20264.5x their median
Microsoft is consolidating its two Copilot experiences, so all users will now rely on the same app. Link: https://t.co/U6krFNfSFY https://t.co/xiu56UT6KQ
- Aug 15, 20264.5x their median
“Silo” is a pitch-perfect sci-fi mystery about a segmented, post-apocalyptic society built on dark secrets. If you want more of that, there’s one movie that should be on your must-watch list. Link: https://t.co/b5VQGIQ4aL https://t.co/zz9a7uE04m
- Aug 29, 20264.0x their median
Apple is officially dropping support for Intel Macs this year, but that doesn't mean you have to stop using yours. Here are the best hacks to make your Intel Mac run better. Link: https://t.co/pW1P6ea9lM https://t.co/FR7dZzXD8A
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 2 interactions against 3.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 302 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% of 3,774 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 6.8K times each, and 0.029% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.207% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 10.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 302 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 236 interactions, about 118x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #beforeandafter, #diyprojects, #homeimprovement.
- What is Lifehacker's engagement rate on X?
- Lifehacker (@lifehacker) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 302 original posts from the last 30 days against 3,299,761 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, Lifehacker sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,521 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 @lifehacker have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @lifehacker post?
- Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 10.07 posts per day across the measured window.