Polkadot engagement report
@Polkadot - 1.6M followers on X
Measured over 14 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 346 interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.022%. Measured over 14 original posts, its engagement rate beats 45% of 21,185 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 39K times each, and 0.886% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.48% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 14 posts sampled, 64% carry an image or video, 29% are part of a thread and 29% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.5K interactions, about 4.2x its own typical post.
Measured over 14 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Polkadot's engagement rate beats 45% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 44% 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 0.022%, Polkadot sits above the 10th percentile of the 213,098 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.147% |
| 75th percentile | 0.698% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 82.9% |
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 12:00 UTC, and Monday 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 | 64% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 29% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 64% 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.
- 29% 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 435 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
- Oct 8, 20264.2x their median
dotUSD is live on Polkadot. Today a handful of companies issue and control most of the world's stablecoins worth more than $250B. Like banks, they decide who can hold them and who can’t. dotUSD is based on a different premise. It has no issuing company and no single point of control. The DOT DAO governs it through OpenGov. Polkadot now has a stablecoin that belongs to its network.
- Sep 26, 20263.3x their median
dotUSD drops soon, with Phase 1 letting you swap USDT → dotUSD. Meanwhile, the DOT x USDT pool on the Hub just picked up an extra $2M. The ecosystem is gearing up ✨ https://t.co/IMS9nmltgK
- Jun 19, 20264.4x their median
In his second talk at Web3 Summit, Dr. Gavin Wood discussed alongside @byteboro from @paritytech options to elevate Polkadot with JAM on its mission to provide products for people on a scale of Web2 but with Web3 primitives. JAM gives Polkadot collective compute. Traditional blockchains can't do this. Neither can parachains. JAM computing is autonomous and spread across thousands of machines worldwide. JAM can provide a collective computer for the world, running on state-of-the-art tech. With 23 JAM implementers now passing the first milestone, the build is underway.
- Jul 31, 20262.8x their median
Aren't we all tired of the gazillion logins, installs, and new accounts demanded by every single service we use? Gavin Wood recently presented a paradigm shift in how everyday technology could look: Owned by yourself, smooth and simple UX, app previews before you download, and no logins. In the next step, Gavin Wood will lead the technical side of delivery directly at @paritytech, taking the proofs of concept the Parity team has laboured over and hardening them into robust, open-source software that people can actually use. Learn more about the Polkadot and Human Web3 vision below. 📺
- Jul 9, 20264.1x their median
Devs, are you ready for your first mover advantage? The opportunity to build on everyday apps, which are fully private, secure, and decentralised. More updates are coming soon. https://t.co/OiGK3uRGUX
- Jul 23, 20264.4x their median
https://t.co/yitjmZw3gJ
- Jul 30, 20262.2x their median
Have you browsed through the apps deployed on the Polkadot Products Devnet? Every developer building on the devnet has the option to either keep their build unlisted or publish it to 'Browse'. 1. Open https://t.co/3L2M0RpulC 2. Which application is smiling at you? Yes, open that one. 3. A few to try: DotNS to register your own .dot domain, Playground to build a sample app in a guided environment or Mercado, a dummy marketplace. See what's possible for yourself. Next step: Link your builds in the comments 👇
- Aug 12, 20262.0x their median
What's the key difference between the current web and the one Polkadot is building? Agency. Agency over your actions and your destiny. The ability to decide for yourself instead of delegating your choices to a deliberate platform algorithm. https://t.co/e4QT3sd400
- Jul 18, 20264.2x their median
Nobody wants technology. People want to send money, speak privately, and prove that they are human without giving up their identity. Technology is the machinery in the background. Products are the switches on the wall. You flick it, and the light turns on, taking the technology and infrastructure behind it for granted. Polkadot spent a decade building the machinery. Now it is building the switch. Four talks from @Web3Summit showcase the new Polkadot direction and what is being built right now. Whoever builds the switch controls the light. Watch the talks. 👇
- Sep 9, 20262.0x their median
Polkadot Product Devnet Update A major update is rolling out to the Polkadot Product Devnet, with a new version of the Devnet mobile and desktop apps to match. This update brings big changes to the Devnet and requires all developers to follow these steps: 1. Back up your recovery phrase manually if you want to retain access to any deployed sites 2. Delete your backup (shake your phone, clear backup) 3. Uninstall the app 4. Reinstall the app Full technical details 👇 https://t.co/sBSUOrqmdE
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 346 interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.022%. Measured over 14 original posts, its engagement rate beats 45% of 21,185 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 39K times each, and 0.886% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.48% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 14 posts sampled, 64% carry an image or video, 29% are part of a thread and 29% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.5K interactions, about 4.2x its own typical post.
- What is Polkadot's engagement rate on X?
- Polkadot (@Polkadot) has an engagement rate of 0.022%, based on the median interactions across 14 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,577,807 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.022%, Polkadot sits above the 10th percentile of the 213,098 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 @Polkadot have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 45% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 @Polkadot post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.2 posts per day across the measured window.