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PetaPixel engagement report

@petapixel - 928K followers on X

Measured over 112 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 19, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.002%
of 928K followers
Per impression
0.317%
4.7K views on a typical post
Reach
0.51%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
15
interactions (median)
Saved
0.042%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.73/day
active 77% of days
Peak time
12:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 15 interactions against 928K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 112 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 15,519 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 4.7K times each, and 0.317% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.51% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 112 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 147 interactions, about 9.8x its own typical post.

Measured over 112 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 19, 2026. Recurring tag: #sponsored.

Compared with accounts its own size

PetaPixel's engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 24% 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%, PetaPixel sits below the 10th percentile of the 156,596 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.022%.

p100.003%
p250.022%
p50 (median)0.127%
p750.604%
p902.32%
p9983.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 156,596 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 26,062 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 percentile0.003%
25th percentile0.022%
50th percentile0.127%
75th percentile0.604%
90th percentile2.32%
99th percentile83.4%

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 12:00 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.

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: 12:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 12:00 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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Friday
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 video0% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link100% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 0% 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.
  • 100% 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 145 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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 28, 20269.8x their median

    A photo taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover a few years ago has resurfaced online because there is something strange on the horizon. https://t.co/7ZLL7NqIGY

    332110291K viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 20264.9x their median

    Cara, an anti-AI photo app, has reportedly had all of its content scraped by a bad actor. https://t.co/XRiaIvT0Qx

    52183114K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 20263.7x their median

    Photographer Andrew McCarthy captured this beautiful shot of a lunar eclipse that turned the Moon red from a parking lot. https://t.co/5I38edCGsL

    494116.6K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20263.6x their median

    If you wear this Hawaiian shirt, AI security cameras won't think you're human. https://t.co/WdCDepOUuB

    3811327.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20263.6x their median

    The photographer who captured one of the most enduring images of the Vietnam War taken on American soil has died at age 99. https://t.co/bjhNIeYZys

    458015.7K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20263.3x their median

    Apple unveiled two new chips today. The M6 is the company's first-ever 2nm chip. The M5 Ultra is Apple's first to use "quad-die architecture" and it supports up to 512GB of RAM. https://t.co/F6cajsIx0d

    3810115.6K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20263.3x their median

    The Japanese government says the digital camera industry is in recovery and showing signs of growth. https://t.co/YJNCj7gpBl

    417107.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20263.1x their median

    Canon's digital camera market share has increased, and there's a surprising newcomer to the top three. https://t.co/bE8KU7PMEh

    3713512K viewsView on X
  • Sep 16, 20262.9x their median

    The ultimate iPhone 18 Pro review for photographers! Does the new variable aperture actually matter for photo and video? https://t.co/ZF1V3u17XS

    345418.6K viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 20262.9x their median

    A Formula One photographer was put into a chokehold by a police officer at the Spanish Grand Prix. https://t.co/QHISjbk1Yv

    30120212K 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

#sponsored

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 15 interactions against 928K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 112 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 15,519 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 4.7K times each, and 0.317% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.51% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 112 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 147 interactions, about 9.8x its own typical post.

What is PetaPixel's engagement rate on X?
PetaPixel (@petapixel) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 112 original posts from the last 30 days against 928,435 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.002%, PetaPixel sits below the 10th percentile of the 156,596 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 @petapixel have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 @petapixel post?
Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.73 posts per day across the measured window.

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