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CU Boulder 🦬 engagement report

@CUBoulder - 91K followers on X

Measured over 20 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 22, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.007%
of 91K followers
Per impression
0.253%
2.4K views on a typical post
Reach
2.61%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
6
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.03/day
active 60% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 91K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 20 original posts, its engagement rate beats 14% 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 2.4K times each, and 0.253% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.61% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 20 posts sampled, 65% carry an image or video and 65% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 273 interactions, about 46x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #gobuffs, #foreverfolsom, #skobuffs.

Measured over 20 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 22, 2026. Recurring tags: #gobuffs, #foreverfolsom, #skobuffs.

Compared with accounts its own size

CU Boulder 🦬's engagement rate beats 14% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 13% 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%, CU Boulder 🦬 sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,956 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,956 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 16:00 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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 16:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 16:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Monday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video65% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link65% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 65% 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.
  • 65% 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 232 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 13, 202646x their median

    It sure feels good to be back at Folsom Field with Buff Nation! @CUBuffsFootball got the W for the home opener! #SkoBuffs 🏈🦬 https://t.co/OP7kbtGdCb

    25515216.6K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 202629x their median

    On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, we remember and honor the fallen heroes. This morning, Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine ROTC cadets joined together with first responders from @CUBoulderDPS, @boulderpolice and @boulder_fire for a memorial stair climb in Folsom Field. https://t.co/7mxPkm1qv7

    1659204.2K viewsView on X
  • Sep 12, 202610x their median

    Last night's Pearl Street Parade kicked off the season just right! #SkoBuffs https://t.co/RVjAKMlIWG

    528103.1K viewsView on X
  • Jul 29, 20269.0x their median

    Join Sundance Film Festival Director, Eugene Hernandez, and Festival alum filmmaker Carlos López Estrada (“Blindspotting,” “Summertime”) for a tour around Boulder, Colorado, and a preview of what we are building in Boulder for the 2027 #SundanceFilmFestival. https://t.co/fFslSV658J

    39102323K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20268.0x their median

    The new semester is off to a stunning start ☀️⛰️🎒 https://t.co/xCdStXdrga

    397113.7K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20266.7x their median

    It's that time of year again! 📦🚘🏠 As we begin a new semester, we're excited to welcome more than 7,500 first-year students to campus. This incoming class represents all 50 states and 47 countries. 🌎 SKO BUFFS! 🦬 https://t.co/xNLBhjqxhl

    313603.7K viewsView on X
  • Jul 10, 20266.3x their median

    Despite longstanding beliefs that they are not native to the region, new research shows that moose have been in the southern Rockies for centuries. The study’s results could offer important clues to supporting the future of the Colorado moose. ↓ https://t.co/LMsLO05zpq https://t.co/5jQKSyLhSJ

    314214.3K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20263.3x their median

    There's nothing like the feeling of having all our Buffs back on campus. 🦬 https://t.co/FfwE1DqFIB

    190103.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20263.0x their median

    Big news for the future of quantum research! The @NSF is investing in the next phase of CU Boulder and its partners’ work to advance quantum science research and engineering through a $37.5 million award. Read more ↓ https://t.co/RFGl4LkWCK https://t.co/SE4hSoDG4d

    104133.5K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 20262.5x their median

    An ongoing study by @CUBoulderCMDI has found that many of Denver’s public spaces don’t provide enough shade to protect people from UV exposure and heat. The team is using the research to develop a practical roadmap for creating safer public spaces. ↓ https://t.co/LOyzalcLON

    92133.1K viewsView on X

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

#gobuffs#foreverfolsom#skobuffs#sidebeforeself

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 6 interactions against 91K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 20 original posts, its engagement rate beats 14% 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 2.4K times each, and 0.253% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.61% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 20 posts sampled, 65% carry an image or video and 65% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 273 interactions, about 46x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #gobuffs, #foreverfolsom, #skobuffs.

What is CU Boulder 🦬's engagement rate on X?
CU Boulder 🦬 (@CUBoulder) has an engagement rate of 0.007%, based on the median interactions across 20 original posts from the last 30 days against 90,644 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.007%, CU Boulder 🦬 sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,956 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 @CUBoulder have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 14% 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 @CUBoulder post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.03 posts per day across the measured window.

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