Matt Mullenweg engagement report
@photomatt - 416K followers on X
Measured over 26 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 67 interactions against 416K followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 26 original posts, its engagement rate beats 41% of 19,675 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 15K times each, and 0.453% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.55% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 26 posts sampled, 27% carry an image or video, 31% are part of a thread and 19% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.8K interactions, about 42x its own typical post.
Measured over 26 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026. Recurring tag: #omfest.
Compared with accounts its own size
Matt Mullenweg's engagement rate beats 41% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,675 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 29% 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 0.016%, Matt Mullenweg sits above the 10th percentile of the 198,241 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 | 0.14% |
| 75th percentile | 0.664% |
| 90th percentile | 2.52% |
| 99th percentile | 82.6% |
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 04:00 UTC, and Thursday 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 | 27% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 19% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 27% 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.
- 19% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 177 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 29, 202642x their median
Come visit our Burning Man art piece that we installed today. It's a mile-long line of solar powered LED strobes that create a streak of light moving at the speed of the Earth's rotation. You can feel your spin. At 11:00 and far fence. https://t.co/l7ZoWij0He
- Aug 26, 202633x their median
Hedge funds will eventually provide inference to model routers for free, or even pay to do so, in order to get a first look at prompt contents. Payment-for-order-flow in the age of compute.
- Sep 11, 202619x their median
Founder advice: If you don't have a coup attempt every few years, you're not hiring strong enough leaders.
- Jun 26, 20267.2x their median
All Roads Lead to @om, remembering my dear friend: https://t.co/byiqgdIzdv
- Sep 11, 20264.1x their median
I've got some big news to share: https://t.co/msed5kQ10o
- Sep 26, 20263.7x their median
joining the opus 5.5 hype, what a time to be alive https://t.co/odAWdzjDAf
- Sep 29, 20262.7x their median
#OmFest kicked off with an amazing dedication of a bench in South Park in his honor. At the Swedish American Hall people are milling in, there are 60 quotes like this to find throughout the space, and much more. I’m about to have the fourth cup of coffee in my life. https://t.co/ruIsBnmF2K
- Sep 10, 20262.7x their median
I really need some great sysadmin and security researchers to hire really quick, no one from @automattic! I'm on the board there and fully support Mark Davies in his interim CEO role. But I think it's probably good if I move some of my stuff currently hosted there, elsewhere.
- Sep 10, 20262.5x their median
Following reports of Matt's role change at Automattic, I want to assure you that WordPress leadership and direction remain unchanged. Matt continues to lead our project, and I remain Executive Director. I'm grateful to everyone making this possible as we keep building together.
- Aug 19, 20262.1x their median
When I saw the Slack notification preview, “Matt, I’m literally crying right now,” I must admit my first reaction was “Oh no, what happened…” https://t.co/CY3wfgQayU
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 67 interactions against 416K followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 26 original posts, its engagement rate beats 41% of 19,675 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 15K times each, and 0.453% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.55% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 26 posts sampled, 27% carry an image or video, 31% are part of a thread and 19% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.8K interactions, about 42x its own typical post.
- What is Matt Mullenweg's engagement rate on X?
- Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) has an engagement rate of 0.016%, based on the median interactions across 26 original posts from the last 30 days against 416,431 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.016%, Matt Mullenweg sits above the 10th percentile of the 198,241 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 @photomatt have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 41% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,675 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 @photomatt post?
- Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.17 posts per day across the measured window.