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Crisis Group engagement report

@CrisisGroup - 241K followers on X

Measured over 60 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 28, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.009%
of 241K followers
Per impression
0.522%
4.3K views on a typical post
Reach
1.80%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
22
interactions (median)
Saved
0.093%
4 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
4.07/day
active 43% of days
Peak time
11:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 22 interactions against 241K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 60 original posts, its engagement rate beats 23% of 19,932 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 4.3K times each, and 0.522% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.79% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 60 posts sampled, 30% carry an image or video and 78% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 640 interactions, about 29x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #ethiopia, #tigray, #fiunga81.

Measured over 60 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 28, 2026. Recurring tags: #ethiopia, #tigray, #fiunga81.

Compared with accounts its own size

Crisis Group's engagement rate beats 23% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 28% 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 0.009%, Crisis Group sits above the 10th percentile of the 201,665 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.142%
p750.671%
p902.53%
p9982.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 201,665 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,911 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 percentile0.142%
75th percentile0.671%
90th percentile2.53%
99th percentile82.5%

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 11:00 UTC, and Thursday 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: 11:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 11:00 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video30% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link78% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 30% 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.
  • 78% 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 243 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 8, 202629x their median

    The sanctions on goods from the territory will be one of British Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s biggest foreign policy interventions since taking power in July and is expected to provoke a sharp rebuke from Washington. https://t.co/rFCVqmglut https://t.co/Pc7CMonZuP

    437123631756K viewsView on X
  • Sep 8, 202619x their median

    ⚡⚡France, Canada to ban products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank alongside the UK today. Details to follow in @haaretzcom @Haaretz

    29090121971K viewsView on X
  • Sep 8, 202611x their median

    Head of the opposition Yair Lapid: The British government's decision to impose boycotts and sanctions on Israel is a grave mistake. It is a wrong and dangerous policy, at the wrong time and for the wrong reasons. The decision made today will strengthen the extremist voices in Israel just before the Knesset elections and provide encouragement to Hamas and the terrorist organizations. It is clear to everyone that this is a decision driven by considerations of domestic politics in Britain, where a cynical attack on Israel is used to please disappointed voters.

    185479618K viewsView on X
  • Sep 25, 20267.8x their median

    “There is no doubt that Ethiopia is back in a larger war.” Horn of Africa Director @AlanBoswell live on @AJEnglish More information in our latest statement: https://t.co/r5RE4huccf https://t.co/LxWaaQNroG

    964721835K viewsView on X
  • Sep 27, 20265.2x their median

    Northern Ethiopia is slipping into renewed war. African leaders backed by key outside powers notably the U.S. should urge both sides to deescalate, show restraint, and return to the negotiating table. https://t.co/r5RE4huccf https://t.co/HO7T3Jf6Om

    563814653K viewsView on X
  • Sep 25, 20264.0x their median

    NEW STATEMENT | Arresting the Dangerous Descent Back into War in Northern Ethiopia Large-scale fighting has erupted after armed opposition groups launched offensives on Ethiopian government forces. It is not too late to avert a return to bloody war. https://t.co/r5RE4huK1N https://t.co/2CXEdq0r7i

    353018611K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 20263.1x their median

    The longer the war in Sudan continues, the further Eastern Chad is likely to be dragged in. @bouesselus explains why the war in Sudan risks fracturing Chad and is worsening one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. https://t.co/ovbgGDqhq9

    4417537.5K viewsView on X
  • Sep 8, 20263.0x their median

    “We are now at a geopolitical juncture in which many states and groups believe that they can brush off the Council’s injunctions, and indeed international law more generally, with impunity.” @RichardGowan1, Crisis Group’s Director for Global Issues and Institutions. https://t.co/WYrOdx7pjc

    4024216.4K viewsView on X
  • Sep 24, 20263.0x their median

    "The U.S.-led coalition against ISIS is leaving Iraq. The paramilitary groups that fought ISIS will remain [and] their continued power poses a fundamental question for the country’s new government." @LahibHigel examines the challenges ahead for Iraq. https://t.co/FKR7DQxkE5

    4123119.0K viewsView on X
  • Sep 27, 20262.8x their median

    The offensives in northern Ethiopia appear to be the first attempt by a new opposition alliance to carry out coordinated military action against the federal government. https://t.co/r5RE4huccf

    3520426.4K 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

#ethiopia#tigray#fiunga81#sudan#unga

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 22 interactions against 241K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 60 original posts, its engagement rate beats 23% of 19,932 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 4.3K times each, and 0.522% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.79% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 60 posts sampled, 30% carry an image or video and 78% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 640 interactions, about 29x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #ethiopia, #tigray, #fiunga81.

What is Crisis Group's engagement rate on X?
Crisis Group (@CrisisGroup) has an engagement rate of 0.009%, based on the median interactions across 60 original posts from the last 30 days against 240,586 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.009%, Crisis Group sits above the 10th percentile of the 201,665 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 @CrisisGroup have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 23% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 @CrisisGroup post?
Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.07 posts per day across the measured window.

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