PetaPixel engagement report
@petapixel - 929K followers on X
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 21, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 14 interactions against 929K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 1,003 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 4.5K times each, and 0.309% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.487% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 74 interactions, about 5.3x its own typical post.
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 21, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
PetaPixel's engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 5 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 20% 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 above the 10th percentile of the 10,480 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.007%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.007% |
| 50th percentile | 0.048% |
| 75th percentile | 0.326% |
| 90th percentile | 2.49% |
| 99th percentile | 353.7% |
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 12:00 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 | 0% | 15K |
| 01:00 UTC | +4% | 15K |
| 02:00 UTC | -1% | 14K |
| 03:00 UTC | -2% | 15K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 05:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 06:00 UTC | -7% | 13K |
| 07:00 UTC | -6% | 14K |
| 08:00 UTC | -7% | 17K |
| 09:00 UTC | -2% | 19K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 20K |
| 11:00 UTC | -2% | 22K |
| 12:00 UTC | -1% | 24K |
| 13:00 UTC | +1% | 27K |
| 14:00 UTC | -2% | 29K |
| 15:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 16:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 17:00 UTC | -1% | 28K |
| 18:00 UTC | +1% | 25K |
| 19:00 UTC | 0% | 24K |
| 20:00 UTC | 0% | 22K |
| 21:00 UTC | +1% | 19K |
| 22:00 UTC | +1% | 17K |
| 23:00 UTC | +1% | 15K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +8% | 59K |
| Monday | +8% | 72K |
| Tuesday | +1% | 94K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 78K |
| Thursday | -3% | 71K |
| Friday | -5% | 73K |
| Saturday | +2% | 64K |
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 | 0% of posts | +79% | +73% to +85% | 5.8K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -49% | -50% to -47% | 6.1K |
| Typical length | - | -7% | -8% to -5% | 9.0K |
- 0% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 79% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 49% 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 148 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 7% 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 14, 20265.3x their median
Cara, an anti-AI photo app, has reportedly had all of its content scraped by a bad actor. https://t.co/XRiaIvT0Qx
- Aug 19, 20263.5x their median
The Japanese government says the digital camera industry is in recovery and showing signs of growth. https://t.co/YJNCj7gpBl
- Aug 14, 20263.0x their median
These 31 award-winning nighttime photos celebrate the beauty of the night sky and show why we must endeavor to protect dark skies all over the world. https://t.co/p2Z23gcY1K
- Aug 13, 20262.8x their median
Photographers from all over the world traveled to Europe last night for a stunning total solar eclipse. https://t.co/xugqBdAdtv
- Aug 20, 20262.6x their median
Canon's digital camera market share has increased, and there's a surprising newcomer to the top three. https://t.co/bE8KU7PMEh
- Aug 14, 20262.0x their median
Apple has deployed an alarming threat notification to an unspecified number of users in 110 countries -- experts advise not to ignore it. https://t.co/SY0265Cwe8
- Aug 17, 20261.9x their median
Japan's film brand of choice has shifted to Kodak and, despite increased prices, film photographers aren't slowing down. https://t.co/yZW0r3MoBi
- Aug 12, 20261.9x their median
Sigma's 85mm f/1.2 DG Art lens still doesn't have a price, release date, or detailed specs, but it is supported in Adobe Camera Raw for some reason. https://t.co/j5ZRE0F9im
- Aug 19, 20261.8x their median
A photographer filming a video in the U.K. turned his back on his camera bag for mere seconds, and when he came back to it, found it had been stolen. https://t.co/pM0TMmbt7u
- Aug 20, 20261.6x their median
TTArtisan's new AF 85mm f/1.8 Neo lens for full-frame Sony and Nikon cameras costs just $99. https://t.co/B0YLCyZD0B
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.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 14 interactions against 929K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 1,003 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 4.5K times each, and 0.309% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.487% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 74 interactions, about 5.3x 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 39 original posts from the last 30 days against 929,329 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 above the 10th percentile of the 10,480 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 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 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 Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.3 posts per day across the measured window.