The Killers engagement report
@thekillers - 4.4M followers on X
Measured over 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on September 10, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 1 original post 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 1.8K interactions against 4.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.042%. Posts are seen about 93K times each, and 1.98% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.13% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.03 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 3% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 11K interactions, about 6.2x its own typical post. Only 1 original post 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 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on September 10, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.042%, The Killers sits above the 25th percentile of the 66,258 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.016% to 0.1%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.016% |
| 50th percentile | 0.1% |
| 75th percentile | 0.499% |
| 90th percentile | 2.09% |
| 99th percentile | 119.6% |
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 07:00 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 | -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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -8% | -9% to -7% | 41K |
- 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.
- 0% 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 42 characters, which falls in the under 80 characters band. Across the catalog, posts under 80 characters run 8% 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
- Jun 21, 20256.2x their median
One year older and wiser too. Happy birthday to you, Brandon. https://t.co/QpomZvWyYN
- Mar 20, 20264.0x their median
We Always remember to say mucho when we’re down here. It means a lot. Gracias Mucho Asunción! https://t.co/NpFBqxuttq
- Mar 26, 20263.4x their median
Race you there? @thekillers perform at the UCL Final Kick Off Show by PEPSI on May 30th. #pepsikickoffshow https://t.co/PbA2IKUJUz
- Jun 21, 20262.7x their median
Happy birthday @BrandonFlowers! Please, no presents, but he’ll have one for you real soon. https://t.co/i1KOYFxpLC
- Mar 30, 20261.8x their median
That’s a wrap LATAM 2026. Muchas Gracias! https://t.co/7xE4TKiHBe
- Oct 9, 20251.8x their median
‘Mr. Brightside’ named one of Rolling Stone’s Best Songs of the 21st Century. Check out the full list: https://t.co/6xCzqCA3yw https://t.co/SIkKH7Wpgj
- May 27, 2025
Here’s a clip of Brandon’s acceptance speech for The Ivors Special International Award for songwriting. https://t.co/hRf8VRzQQT
- Mar 24, 20261.5x their median
Lima - 3/23/26 ❤️ https://t.co/uzVVowuFXx
- Feb 15, 2026
Fifty years loud. The set lists may be in larger print these days. But the rhythm is still written in thunder. Happy Birthday babe. https://t.co/otetrhUvc0
- Mar 26, 2026
Pura Vida 🇨🇷 https://t.co/308fwY4U6c
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 1.8K interactions against 4.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.042%. Posts are seen about 93K times each, and 1.98% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.13% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.03 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 3% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 11K interactions, about 6.2x its own typical post. Only 1 original post 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 The Killers's engagement rate on X?
- The Killers (@thekillers) has an engagement rate of 0.042%, based on the median interactions across 1 original posts from the last 30 days against 4,360,129 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.042%, The Killers sits above the 25th percentile of the 66,258 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 @thekillers have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @thekillers post?
- Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.03 posts per day across the measured window.