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Steve Vai engagement report

@stevevai - 419K followers on X

Measured over 4 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 26, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.359%
of 419K followers
Per impression
2.82%
53K views on a typical post
Reach
12.7%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1.5K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.246%
131 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.2/day
active 17% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Saturday

Early reading. We have captured 4 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.

A typical post picks up 1.5K interactions against 419K followers, an engagement rate of 0.359%. Posts are seen about 53K times each, and 2.82% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 12.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 4 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 24K interactions, about 16x its own typical post. Only 4 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

Measured over 4 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 26, 2026.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.359%, Steve Vai sits above the 50th percentile of the 204,798 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.678%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,798 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,879 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 percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 15:00 UTC, and Saturday 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: 15:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 15:00 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: Saturday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Saturday
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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link25% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 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.
  • 25% 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 194 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

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

  • Oct 17, 202516x their median

    Ace Frehley was the embodiment of rock ’n’ roll attitude — unapologetic, loud, and irresistibly catchy. His riffs had swagger, his tone had bite, and his presence lit up stages like a supernova. The Spaceman has left the stage, but his orbit will shine forever. https://t.co/TDyDvEVA9i

    21K2.8K245125358K viewsView on X
  • Mar 14, 20263.4x their median

    40 years ago today, Crossroads was released! And whammy bars were never the same. https://t.co/jea4wNyCeX

    4.2K69220087191K viewsView on X
  • Jun 6, 2025

    Thank you everybody for all the wonderful birthday wishes. I’m having a grand time in London enjoying my 65th birthday. https://t.co/HCzoyqb46l

    4.3K2233032986K viewsView on X
  • Jul 3, 20251.7x their median

    Happy Birthday, Immortal Beloved https://t.co/h0wMmGjje7

    2.4K6977447K viewsView on X
  • Sep 20, 2026

    This track is the last movement of the Fire Garden Suite. A lovely little piece of musical tranquility... if your idea of tranquility involves Taurus Bulba. The title came from an old Yul Brynner movie that I loved as a kid. https://t.co/7Xtwt8cvFp

    1.6K213372259K viewsView on X
  • Jan 16, 2026

    Today marks the 6th anniversary of the announcement of the @ibanezofficial PIA! https://t.co/NMrmCZvVXj

    1.5K12453637K viewsView on X
  • May 25, 2025

    🎥: riff_pull_off https://t.co/qdFgAqLJDS

    1.3K179491332K viewsView on X
  • Sep 22, 2026

    From Fire Garden, this performance was taken from Tokyo in 1997 as part of the Rock Around the Bay festival. https://t.co/EuBRjaxbQ5

    1.3K181433566K viewsView on X
  • Jun 23, 2025

    We are having that absolute best time on this tour. I’m just overwhelmed with the incredible support from the fans. Somebody pinch me. 📷: Quentinprod Photos https://t.co/ADoit8C7AO

    1.4K8646327K viewsView on X
  • Sep 19, 2026

    Introducing the BEAST! That’s what we called Jeremy’s little satellite drum-demon kit. I arranged the song “Angel Food” into a steamy little version for the BEAST and me. Sometimes you just need a full-grown man, a guitar and a small drum demon. https://t.co/dj5X1lscbI

    1.2K15135947K 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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 1.5K interactions against 419K followers, an engagement rate of 0.359%. Posts are seen about 53K times each, and 2.82% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 12.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 4 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 24K interactions, about 16x its own typical post. Only 4 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

What is Steve Vai's engagement rate on X?
Steve Vai (@stevevai) has an engagement rate of 0.359%, based on the median interactions across 4 original posts from the last 30 days against 419,007 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.359%, Steve Vai sits above the 50th percentile of the 204,798 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 @stevevai have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @stevevai post?
Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.2 posts per day across the measured window.

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