How did Clerk Elements do on X?
Clerk posted the Clerk Elements launch from @clerk on May 2, 2024. The post has 773,382 views, 312 likes, 31 reposts, 23 quotes and 23 replies, an engagement rate of 0.05%. It ranks #666 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.
Introducing Clerk Elements, a new set of unstyled UI primitives that make it easy to build completely custom user interfaces on top of Clerk's API. https://go.clerk.com/elements
- 4.4xthe median launch175K median views
- #666of the launches we trackout of 2839
- 21xits own following36,284 followers
- Views
- 773.4K
- Likes
- 312
- Reposts
- 31
- Quotes
- 23
- Replies
- 23
- Bookmarks
- 96
What would these views cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 773.4K views would cost $77K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 1.3x what this post got, for about $25K.
The post reached about 21 views for every follower of @clerk.
What launched?
Clerk launched Clerk Elements, a set of unstyled UI primitives for building fully custom user interfaces on top of Clerk's API.
How does it compare with other launches?
Clerk Elements has more views than 77% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 4.4x the median launch's 175K views.
- Clerk Elements773.4K
- Median tracked launch175K
- #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
| Metric | Clerk Elements | Median launch |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 773.4K | 175K |
| Engagement rate | 0.05% | 0.48% |
| Views per follower | 21 | 2.8 |
| Quote posts | 23 | 27 |
| Saves per 10K views | 1.2 | 14.2 |
Other Clerk launches we track: Clerk Billing (167.2K views), Clerk Sign in with Base (57.3K views), Clerk Core 2 Beta (53.2K views), Clerk API Keys (45K views), Clerk on Vercel Marketplace (33K views), Clerk Application Logs (25.3K views). All 17 Clerk launches, or every developer tools launch.
Against launches like it
A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer tools launches | 595 | 111.1K | 7.0x | #100 |
| Accounts 10K to 100K followers | 1,135 | 99.4K | 7.8x | #197 |
| Text-only launch posts | 279 | 122.7K | 6.3x | #47 |
| Every launch | 2,839 | 175K | 4.4x | #666 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 36.3K followers, the post reached 21 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 10K to 100K followers reach a median of 3.1 times their following, so this one went about 6.9 times further than usual for its size. It ranks 197 of 1135 launches from accounts that size.
It drew 23 quote posts, 0.3 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. Fewer people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.
The first line is "Introducing Clerk Elements, a new set of unstyled UI primitives that make it easy to build completely custom user interfaces on top of Cl…". The post runs 25 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with no media: text-only launches have a median of 122.7K views, against 183.4K for the rest.
There is a link in the post. Launch posts with a link have a median of 160.8K views in the tracker.
It went out on a Thursday (UTC). Thursday launches have a median of 162.1K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.
Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.
Questions about this launch
- What is Clerk?
- In its own words on X: "Auth infrastructure for humans and agents" Clerk posted the Clerk Elements launch from @clerk on May 2, 2024.
- How many views did Clerk Elements get on X?
- 773,382 views. Clerk posted it from @clerk on May 2, 2024, and the post has 312 likes, 31 reposts, 23 quotes, 23 replies and 96 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
- Was Clerk Elements a big launch on X?
- It ranks #666 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 77% of them and 4.4x the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.05%, against a median of 0.48%.
- What would 773.4K views on X cost to buy?
- At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 773.4K views would cost $77K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 1.3x what this post got, for about $25K.
Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/clerk-elements, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.