Asian Development Bank engagement report
@ADB_HQ - 283K followers on X
Measured over 47 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 23, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 19 interactions against 283K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 47 original posts, its engagement rate beats 19% of 20,444 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 1.3K times each, and 1.41% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.477% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 47 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 70% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 100 interactions, about 5.3x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #cop31, #wbgmeetings.
Measured over 47 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 23, 2026. Recurring tags: #cop31, #wbgmeetings.
Compared with accounts its own size
Asian Development Bank's engagement rate beats 19% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 52% 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 0.007%, Asian Development Bank sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,374 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 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 02:00 UTC, and Friday 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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 70% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 100% 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.
- 70% 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 278 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
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
- Sep 6, 20265.3x their median
Interested in building a career in international development? Join our Young Professionals Program at ADB’s headquarters in Manila. It is open to nationals of ADB member countries, aged 32 and below, with at least three years of relevant work experience. Applications close on September 30: https://t.co/Y7xw1K14xD
- Sep 20, 20264.9x their median
Call for Papers | #AEDC2027 Together with the @ADBInstitute and in collaboration with the @LKYSch in Singapore, we invite submissions of unpublished, original research papers on economic development in Asia and the Pacific. 📅 Submission | 15 January 2027 📑 Conference | 1–2 July 2027 Learn more: https://t.co/wZXkwJHeEP
- Sep 1, 20264.6x their median
ADB President Masato Kanda has received unanimous support for a second term as the bank's President from its Board of Governors. His new term begins on 24 November 2026. Read the full announcement here: https://t.co/rTPNMGp7Dc https://t.co/Ww0HyzWFOa
- Aug 30, 20264.5x their median
Disasters leave behind trauma, anxiety, and grief—and when these go unaddressed, recovery slows and resilience weakens. ADB experts set out five steps for moving mental health care into primary care and disaster planning, where affected communities can reach it: https://t.co/xuDaEmY0TN
- Oct 17, 20264.1x their median
At a meeting in Manila, MDB Heads reaffirm their readiness to provide timely financial and analytical support to protect vulnerable populations and sustain investment in jobs and resilient long-term growth. 🔗 Read the news release: https://t.co/w3XTmNL9gE https://t.co/qXjq3ZLwb4
- Sep 20, 20263.8x their median
ADB welcomes its newest cohort of Young Professionals. The Young Professionals Program gives early-career professionals the chance to build expertise, gain international experience, and contribute to projects addressing development challenges across Asia and the Pacific. 📲 Learn more: https://t.co/ITUBkIYZJW 📚 Apply here: https://t.co/n2jLNRqmlS
- Aug 25, 20263.6x their median
Worsening drought, soil erosion, and unsustainable land use are degrading ecosystems across Asia and the Pacific. Our new FIELD initiative aims to attract at least $2 billion by 2035 together with partners to combat land degradation, restore landscapes, and strengthen drought resilience: https://t.co/p7bynlo3TQ
- Aug 28, 20263.0x their median
The devastating floods in Nepal have caused widespread loss of life, displacement, and severe damage to infrastructure and essential services. We have approved a $5 million emergency grant to support rescue and relief operations. The funding will help deliver food, safe water, shelter, and other critical necessities to affected communities: https://t.co/slkRLgojJQ
- Sep 4, 20262.9x their median
Demand for clean energy and digital technologies is surging. With vast natural resources and a strong manufacturing capacity, Asia and the Pacific has the potential to become a powerhouse in transforming raw minerals into technologies that will support the region's energy security and digital ambitions. Our Pradeep Tharakan spoke to @wef about what is needed to build critical minerals-to-manufacturing value chains in the region: https://t.co/q7zv4Cqs1O
- Aug 28, 20262.9x their median
73.3 million people in Asia and the Pacific are already food insecure. El Niño could push 8.2 million more into hunger. Here’s how early action can reduce impacts across the region: https://t.co/9VS2B58m2p https://t.co/97efNuJ8q0
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 19 interactions against 283K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 47 original posts, its engagement rate beats 19% of 20,444 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 1.3K times each, and 1.41% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.477% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 47 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 70% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 100 interactions, about 5.3x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #cop31, #wbgmeetings.
- What is Asian Development Bank's engagement rate on X?
- Asian Development Bank (@ADB_HQ) has an engagement rate of 0.007%, based on the median interactions across 47 original posts from the last 30 days against 282,924 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.007%, Asian Development Bank sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,374 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 @ADB_HQ have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 19% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @ADB_HQ post?
- Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.93 posts per day across the measured window.