The Linux Foundation engagement report
@linuxfoundation - 594K followers on X
Measured over 79 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 9, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 9 interactions against 594K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 79 original posts, its engagement rate beats 14% of 20,444 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 4.8K times each, and 0.187% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.808% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 79 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 84% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.5K interactions, about 500x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #ossummit, #embeddedlinux, #autolinux.
Measured over 79 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 9, 2026. Recurring tags: #ossummit, #embeddedlinux, #autolinux.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Linux Foundation's engagement rate beats 14% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 13% 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 0.002%, The Linux Foundation 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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.677% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 84% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 100% 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.
- 84% 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 329 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
- Aug 25, 2026500x their median
"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)..." On August 25, 1991, a 21-year-old student sent a message to a Usenet newsgroup. He thought he was just building something fun for himself. 35 years later, that "hobby" is the backbone of global technology: 🚀 Powering helicopters in space with NASA ☁️ Running the global cloud and 100% of the world’s supercomputers 📱 Connecting billions of people 🎮 Redefining the future of handheld gaming What started as one student's side project became the greatest collaborative technology movement in history. Thank you to every maintainer, contributor, and advocate who made it possible. Happy 35th Birthday, Linux. Here’s to the power of open source and the next 35 years of building together. https://t.co/KDN6Coob7F #Linux35
- Aug 22, 202691x their median
When Gabe Newell called Linux "the future of gaming" in 2013, many in the industry were skeptical. Valve launched Steam for Linux anyway. Fast-forward a decade: the Linux-powered Steam Deck launched, leveraging Proton to run thousands of PC titles seamlessly on SteamOS, an operating system rebuilt on an Arch Linux base. What began as a bold bet on open source transformed handheld PC gaming forever. https://t.co/LFeLaOapXf Video courtesy: SuperTux Team, via Steam #Linux35
- Aug 17, 202664x their median
In 1994, open-source software quietly revolutionized supercomputing. By chaining 16 off-the-shelf Linux PCs together (the Beowulf architecture), researchers matched mainframe power at a fraction of the cost. This breakthrough democratized high-performance computing, laying the groundwork for modern data centers and cloud infrastructure. https://t.co/XDyOfKUDjA Image credit: Vcarceler / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) #Linux35
- Aug 20, 202660x their median
When Android was unveiled in November 2007, few predicted how drastically it would reshape global computing. Built on top of the Linux kernel, Android took open source principles out of server rooms and put them directly into the hands of billions. Today, Linux powers over 80% of all smartphones. What kernel version does your android run on? https://t.co/O2TQiLNPUy #Linux35
- Aug 21, 202659x their median
In April 2005, kernel developers lost access to their source control tool. Linus Torvalds' solution? Write a brand new distributed version control system from scratch. Within 10 days, Git was tracking its own source code. Today, it’s the global backbone of software development. https://t.co/GvSC9REUjw #Linux35
- Aug 19, 202646x their median
"I'm not a visionary, I'm an engineer... I want to fix the pothole that's right in front of me before I fall in." — Linus Torvalds at @TEDx 35 years of fixing one pothole at a time. https://t.co/OKPVuPeUSA #Linux35
- Aug 16, 202646x their median
In June 1996, the release of Linux Kernel 2.0 marked a pivotal evolution in open-source infrastructure. By introducing Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) support, users of Linux gained the ability to distribute computational workloads across multiple processors simultaneously. This single architectural advancement unlocked high-performance capability, paving the way for Linux to scale from individual workstations into server rooms, supercomputers, and cloud infrastructure around the globe. https://t.co/9z59t0ppdI #Linux35
- Aug 23, 202642x their median
In 2012, Linus Torvalds was awarded the Millennium Technology Prize often called the "Nobel Prize of Technology" for creating the Linux kernel. In awarding the prize, the Technology Academy Finland highlighted the impact of open source, stating that software has become too important to the modern world not to be developed collaboratively. What started as a student's side project became the foundation for global digital infrastructure. https://t.co/GqSdE5qP4F #Linux35
- Aug 24, 202641x their median
On April 19, 2021, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter completed humanity's first powered, controlled flight on another planet. The brain behind the flight? An open-source Linux kernel running NASA JPL's F′ flight framework on a standard, off-the-shelf smartphone processor. From consumer smartphones to the surface of Mars, open-source software continues to push the boundaries of where technology can take us. https://t.co/iJNvhqquLh Video Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech #Linux35
- Aug 15, 202636x their median
Zero unexpected reboots in zero gravity. When NASA needed an operating system for the International Space Station that could deliver complete in-house control and ironclad reliability, they turned to Linux. What began as a personal project in 1991 is now the foundation for high-performance computing on—and off—the planet. https://t.co/r3mGu0M4Jn #Linux35
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 9 interactions against 594K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 79 original posts, its engagement rate beats 14% of 20,444 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 4.8K times each, and 0.187% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.808% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 79 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 84% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.5K interactions, about 500x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #ossummit, #embeddedlinux, #autolinux.
- What is The Linux Foundation's engagement rate on X?
- The Linux Foundation (@linuxfoundation) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 79 original posts from the last 30 days against 594,373 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, The Linux Foundation 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 @linuxfoundation have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 14% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter 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 @linuxfoundation post?
- Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.63 posts per day across the measured window.