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158,475 accounts measured · CC BY 4.0We read the engagement aggregates the Pinlyx Data API holds on 158,475 X accounts and drew 1,005 of them band by band to see how many followers a typical post actually reaches: 19.1% at 10k-30k followers, 3.6% at 100k-1M, 2.1% past a million. Free data, CC BY 4.0.
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Per account, reach ratio is the median views on an original post divided by followers; engagement rate is the median interactions on an original post divided by followers; per view divides the same interactions by views. Each row is the spread across the accounts in the band, so one viral post cannot move it.
| Followers | Accounts | Reach p25 | Median reach | Reach p75 | Median engagement | Per view | Draw |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10k-30k | 71 | 6.59% | 19.09% | 57.92% | 0.370% | 1.55% | Cut points |
| 30k-100k | 287 | 2.48% | 5.47% | 16.13% | 0.081% | 1.30% | Cut points |
| 100k-300k | 177 | 2.29% | 3.80% | 13.31% | 0.059% | 1.28% | Random |
| 300k-1M | 157 | 1.48% | 3.37% | 7.24% | 0.037% | 1.18% | Random |
| 1M-3M | 239 | 0.91% | 2.44% | 3.81% | 0.024% | 1.03% | Random |
| 3M+ | 74 | 0.34% | 0.69% | 2.75% | 0.008% | 0.85% | Random |
The median account with 10,000 to 30,000 followers puts a post in front of 19.1% of them. At 30k to 100k it is 5.5%, at 100k to 300k 3.8%, at 300k to 1M 3.4%, at 1M to 3M 2.4%, and past 3 million 0.7%. Engagement per post follows the same slope: 0.37% of followers interact with the median post on a 10k-30k account, 0.008% on an account past 3 million.
Across every measured account the median engagement rate is 0.14% when interactions are divided by followers and 1.43% when they are divided by views. Social media guides mix the two freely, which is how the same platform gets quoted at 0.02% and at 2% in the same week. The API is blunt about it: never compare one against a figure quoted with the other denominator.
Of the 10,913 accounts with more than a million followers, 96.2% carry a blue tick; in the 100k-1M band it is 46.5% of 146,352 accounts, both full counts. At the 10k-100k cut points 26.0% are ticked and at the 1k-10k cut points 12.8%. Business and government badges stay rare everywhere: 1,631 business and 527 government accounts in the million-plus band.
Only 158,475 of the 21.3 million catalogue accounts carry a tweet-level aggregate, and the engine scans large accounts most often. In our draws 73% of million-follower accounts had any coverage, 32% in the 100k-1M band, 8.9% in the 10k-100k band and 1 account in 300 under 10,000 followers. A benchmark for a 5,000-follower account is not in this data, and we do not print one.
Accounts we drew from the catalogue, how many the tweet engine had scanned at all, and how many carried at least 8 original posts. Under 10,000 followers the cohort is too thin to publish.
| Followers | Drawn | Any coverage | Reliable | Draw |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1k-10k | 300 | 1 (0.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | Cut points |
| 10k-100k | 6,200 | 553 (8.9%) | 358 (5.8%) | Cut points |
| 100k-1M | 1,500 | 486 (32.4%) | 334 (22.3%) | Random |
| 1M+ | 600 | 437 (72.8%) | 313 (52.2%) | Random |
Benchmark population (93,614 reliable accounts): median reach 6.25%
Share of accounts with a blue tick. The two largest bands are full counts of the catalogue; the two smaller ones are cut-point samples.
| Followers | Accounts | Blue tick | Draw |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1k-10k | 5,000 | 12.8% | Cut points |
| 10k-100k | 7,000 | 26.0% | Cut points |
| 100k-1M | 146,352 | 46.5% | Full count |
| 1M+ | 10,913 | 96.2% | Full count |
The catalogue does not populate the automation flag or the legacy verified flag: 0 flagged rows among the 157,265 fully listed accounts, so no automated-account share is reported.
Exact hourly rollup over the whole catalogue, not a sample. 70.0% of accounts carry a detected language; shares are of all 21,310,358 accounts.
| Language | Accounts | Share |
|---|---|---|
| English | 7,437,931 | 34.9% |
| Spanish | 1,592,928 | 7.5% |
| Japanese | 1,547,216 | 7.3% |
| Arabic | 803,558 | 3.8% |
| Portuguese | 573,547 | 2.7% |
| French | 336,249 | 1.6% |
| Turkish | 307,258 | 1.4% |
| Chinese | 242,156 | 1.1% |
Accounts with a detected language: 14,921,344 / 21,310,358
Every catalogue account with at least 100,000 followers, by the language the engine assigned. A full count of 157,265 accounts.
| Language | Accounts | Blue tick |
|---|---|---|
| English | 72,679 | 55.6% |
| Spanish | 15,780 | 41.3% |
| Japanese | 14,929 | 61.4% |
| Arabic | 11,491 | 51.4% |
| Portuguese | 6,200 | 40.9% |
| Turkish | 4,177 | 66.1% |
| Chinese | 4,031 | 34.2% |
| Thai | 3,090 | 34.5% |
Accounts: 157,265 · Full count
The same 157,265 accounts by inferred country. Only 45.3% of them carry a country, so these rows describe the located minority.
| Country | Accounts | Blue tick |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 19,344 | 58.2% |
| United Kingdom | 4,194 | 47.2% |
| India | 3,997 | 64.0% |
| Brazil | 3,946 | 41.8% |
| Japan | 3,179 | 63.4% |
| Saudi Arabia | 3,152 | 59.4% |
| Mexico | 2,651 | 43.9% |
| Türkiye | 2,262 | 69.4% |
Accounts: 157,265 · Full count
Turkish is the seventh language of the catalogue and Türkiye its eighth country, both exact rollups. Everything below is measured on the same definitions as the global ladder.
Like for like, Turkish accounts with 100,000 to 1 million followers reach 3.71% of them per post (166 accounts) against 3.64% for the global band, and 0.058% interact against 0.050%. The gap is in what a view is worth: 0.80% of views turn into an interaction on the Turkish accounts, 1.22% globally.
On Telegram we measured the median channel above 500,000 subscribers putting a post in front of 3.3% of them, and 31.4% for channels with 1,000 to 5,000 subscribers (Telegram channel reach 2026). The shape on X is the same: 19.1% at 10k-30k followers, 2.1% past a million. The two numbers are not one measurement, though. The Telegram figure is average views per post divided by subscribers; the X figure is the median views on an original post divided by followers, and X counts non-followers reached through the For You feed and repeat views inside the same impression counter. Read the two ladders for the slope, not for a head-to-head number.
The catalogue is a discovery catalogue of public X accounts collected for monitoring. It is not a random sample of X and does not represent the platform as a whole. Tweet-level coverage is a subset of it and the engine scans large accounts more often, so below 100,000 followers the sample is thin and tilted toward the accounts the engine happened to scan: 358 of the 6,200 accounts drawn in the 10k-100k band were measurable and 0 of 300 under 10,000 followers, which is why no figure is printed there. The 10k-100k band is a cut-point sample, not a random draw, and its measured accounts skew large; the split at 30,000 followers shows how much reach moves inside it. Views are X’s impression counter, which counts non-followers reached through the For You feed and repeat views, so a reach ratio above 100% is possible and the ratio overstates the share of followers who saw a post; follower counts padded by inactive accounts pull it down. Every rate is a 30-day median computed between 24 August and 19 September 2026; another month gives other numbers. The catalogue-wide median reach comes in two engine cuts, 8.21% across every measured account and 6.25% across the 93,614 accounts in the benchmark population, and we quote both. The automation flag and the legacy verified flag are not populated, so no automated-account share is reported. The API’s research feed carried no promoted findings on the snapshot day, so none are quoted. Language and country are inferred by classifiers; 70.0% of accounts carry a language and 34.7% a country.
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<a href="https://pinlyx.com/research/x-twitter-reach-engagement-2026">X (Twitter) reach and engagement 2026</a>, Pinlyx, CC BY 4.01,005 accounts in the percentiles · 91,094 original posts · snapshot 2026-09-19
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