Ubuntu engagement report
@ubuntu - 711K followers on X
Measured over 12 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 383 interactions against 711K followers, an engagement rate of 0.054%. Measured over 12 original posts, its engagement rate beats 61% of 20,444 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 24K times each, and 1.60% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.36% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 12 posts sampled, 92% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 28K interactions, about 73x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #stonkingstingray, #containers, #developers.
Measured over 12 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026. Recurring tags: #stonkingstingray, #containers, #developers.
Compared with accounts its own size
Ubuntu's engagement rate beats 61% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 61% 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 0.054%, Ubuntu sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,491 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.677% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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 | 92% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 92% 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.
- 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% 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 345 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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 25, 202673x their median
35 years strong. 🐧🧡 Happy birthday, Linux. https://t.co/TLEULmtHxQ
- May 1, 202613x their median
Canonical’s web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border attack and we are working to address it. We will provide more information in our official channels as soon as we are able to.
- Feb 14, 202613x their median
Roses are red, Violets are blue. With so many great distros, thank you for choosing Ubuntu. 🧡
- Apr 23, 202613x their median
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, codenamed #ResoluteRaccoon, is now available to download. 🦝 Resolute Raccoon builds on the resilience-focused improvements introduced in interim releases, with TPM-backed full-disk encryption, improved support for application permission prompting, Livepatch updates for Arm-based servers, and Rust-based utilities for enhanced memory safety. This release also brings native support for industry-leading AI/ML toolkits like NVIDIA CUDA and AMD ROCm, making Ubuntu 26.04 LTS the ideal platform for AI development and production workloads. Install now: https://t.co/cFiFaKOJgd Learn more about the release: https://t.co/4WLeYt9UCC
- Apr 20, 202611x their median
It's official! The codename for Ubuntu 26.10 is... (Drum roll, please. 🥁) ...Stonking Stingray!
- Apr 22, 202611x their median
Get ready to boot Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, code name #ResoluteRaccoon. 🦝 https://t.co/QxfiahgUZs https://t.co/4pUloJiWW0
- Apr 19, 20266.6x their median
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS raises the security bar even further across the system. What’s new in security features? Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, codenamed #ResoluteRaccoon, lands on April 23, 2026. Stay tuned. https://t.co/qcJklDtfny https://t.co/aykjJx5b3q
- Jan 27, 202616x their median
They say 2026 will be the year of Linux. How are you using Linux this year? 🐧
- May 27, 20264.4x their median
Today we announced Workshop – a solution for launching sandboxed development environments in Ubuntu with a single command. Spend less time on configuring your environment: with just a few lines of YAML, you’ve got a reproducible environment you can use across machines. Find out how it works at: https://t.co/ItDsCVb34O
- Mar 4, 20264.8x their median
Over the past couple of days, there has been a lot of commentary about #Ubuntu and how it'll respond to California's new Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043). Read our response on Discourse: https://t.co/T2ik1PP102
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 383 interactions against 711K followers, an engagement rate of 0.054%. Measured over 12 original posts, its engagement rate beats 61% of 20,444 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 24K times each, and 1.60% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.36% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 12 posts sampled, 92% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 28K interactions, about 73x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #stonkingstingray, #containers, #developers.
- What is Ubuntu's engagement rate on X?
- Ubuntu (@ubuntu) has an engagement rate of 0.054%, based on the median interactions across 12 original posts from the last 30 days against 711,291 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.054%, Ubuntu sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,491 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 @ubuntu have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 61% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @ubuntu post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.4 posts per day across the measured window.