The Verge engagement report
@verge - 4.6M followers on X
Measured over 240 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 37 interactions against 4.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 240 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 39K times each, and 0.095% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.84% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 240 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 398 interactions, about 11x its own typical post.
Measured over 240 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Verge's engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 8% 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 0.001%, The Verge sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 14:00 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 21, 202611x their median
The company has reportedly concluded the product is financially unviable. https://t.co/h4rHhg1vLv
- Aug 27, 20266.8x their median
Rockstar’s GTA VI preview further blurs the lines between Hollywood and gaming. https://t.co/jqe71sLgLq
- Aug 20, 20265.4x their median
Sam Altman is still CEO, but in day-to-day operations, his second in command is running the show. https://t.co/wpa5AEza3c
- Aug 27, 20265.4x their median
Rockstar finally showed off more of Grand Theft Auto VI in a 26-minute preview. https://t.co/Oa439ifrT5
- Aug 29, 20265.2x their median
The companies call it “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history." https://t.co/SLAoWHyYR3
- Aug 28, 20265.2x their median
Microsoft’s next Xbox console may not be just one piece of hardware. https://t.co/2KVX3hsLHn
- Aug 26, 20264.8x their median
Microsoft’s cofounder used to be optimistic about AI, now he’s concerned it could be ‘the worst source of injustice.’ https://t.co/GjoEc3RBsH
- Aug 31, 20264.6x their median
“I love this company and the team behind it.” https://t.co/osGwGkvbuR
- Aug 28, 20263.9x their median
Google now automatically expands its AI search summaries for some queries. https://t.co/IQScu3nt5S
- Aug 27, 20263.9x their median
RAMaggedon is coming for software now. https://t.co/LmHnuZruyp
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 37 interactions against 4.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 240 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 39K times each, and 0.095% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.84% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 240 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 398 interactions, about 11x its own typical post.
- What is The Verge's engagement rate on X?
- The Verge (@verge) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 240 original posts from the last 30 days against 4,616,120 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, The Verge sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,521 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 @verge have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size 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 @verge post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 8 posts per day across the measured window.