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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

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.016%
of 416K followers
Per impression
0.453%
15K views on a typical post
Reach
3.63%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
67
interactions (median)
Saved
0.051%
8 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
4.17/day
active 57% of days
Peak time
04:00 UTC
Thursday

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%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.14%
p750.664%
p902.52%
p9982.6%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 198,241 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,931 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.14%
75th percentile0.664%
90th percentile2.52%
99th percentile82.6%

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.

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: 04:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 04:00 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video27% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link19% 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

    2.6K1167831712K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    2.0K1069464221K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    1.2K422622147K viewsView on X
  • Jun 26, 20267.2x their median

    All Roads Lead to @om, remembering my dear friend: https://t.co/byiqgdIzdv

    4056324963K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 20264.1x their median

    I've got some big news to share: https://t.co/msed5kQ10o

    2208391136K viewsView on X
  • Sep 26, 20263.7x their median

    joining the opus 5.5 hype, what a time to be alive https://t.co/odAWdzjDAf

    216522280K viewsView on X
  • 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

    161115650K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    11713391142K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    136237330K viewsView on X
  • 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

    1121116416K 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

#omfest

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.

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