Defence Decode® engagement report
@DefenceDecode - 131K followers on X
Measured over 21 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 291 interactions against 131K followers, an engagement rate of 0.223%. Measured over 21 original posts, its engagement rate beats 68% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 5.3K times each, and 5.54% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.02% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.97 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 21 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 10% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.1K interactions, about 14x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #drdo, #indiannavy, #ngmv.
Measured over 21 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #drdo, #indiannavy, #ngmv.
Compared with accounts its own size
Defence Decode®'s engagement rate beats 68% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 88% 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 0.223%, Defence Decode® sits above the 50th percentile of the 204,956 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.678%.
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 12:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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 | 10% 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.
- 10% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 219 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
- Mar 20, 202614x their median
#DRDO's Gas Turbine Research Establishment is currently working towards certification of the GTX-35VS Kaveri in its 82 kN thrust class. Following certification of this baseline variant, discussions are underway to develop an upgraded Kaveri 2.0 with 85 kN+ thrust.: DR Ganesan, GTRE
- Sep 20, 20263.5x their median
📸Umaid Bhawan Palace in the BG👌 https://t.co/vMCdRIz7Zr
- Jul 26, 20253.3x their median
🇮🇳Warship Design Bureau's tentative design of new Warship https://t.co/TECB6eq6dF
- Aug 8, 20262.8x their median
The Government of India (GoI) has officially informed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence (#SCOD) that it is actively taking steps to join the French-led FCAS program to develop a 6th-gen aircraft This collaboration is intended to run alongside India's AMCA program https://t.co/18JazvrKNG
- Mar 2, 20262.7x their median
Indian MoD will soon take up the case to clear the IAF's proposal to buy the additional 5 squadrons of the S400 air defence systems, which will be deployed on both the eastern and western fronts https://t.co/6p8O4lp3lZ via @ANI https://t.co/6zQhTN5Al3
- Jun 1, 20262.5x their median
India has formally issued the LoR to France for 114 #Rafale fighters under a proposed ₹3.25 lakh crore government-to-government deal 🇮🇳 A major step forward in the IAF's fighter modernization and squadron-strength restoration plans. https://t.co/DPclWVRLFl via @ANI https://t.co/vlQyS5530t
- Sep 2, 20262.4x their median
शं नो वरुणः🇮🇳 #indiannavy https://t.co/XCBV3Oq2I5
- Oct 10, 20252.2x their median
DRDO is developing an Active Protection System (#APS) for Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFVs), including MBT Arjun. ▪️APS is an autonomous system that detects and neutralizes incoming anti-armour threats. ▪️In 2023, DRDO completed in-house manufacturing of key components: Launch tube Propellant Blast warhead ✔️Multiple trials were conducted. ✔️Prototype development is currently in progress.
- Aug 23, 20262.2x their median
QRSAM + AkashNG could drive a major missile production cycle ▪️1000 QRSAM missiles are expected under an estd ₹11k–12k cr BDL order. ▪️BEL says its activities for #QRSAM are complete,with only CCS clearance awaited. ▪️MoD is also looking at an order for 1000 AkashNG missiles. https://t.co/PD8dHJJm7A
- Sep 28, 20262.1x their median
Sagar Defence Engineering's(SDE) autonomous Unmanned Surface Vessels (#USVs) https://t.co/dGuRBS9Q6e
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 291 interactions against 131K followers, an engagement rate of 0.223%. Measured over 21 original posts, its engagement rate beats 68% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 5.3K times each, and 5.54% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.02% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.97 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 21 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 10% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.1K interactions, about 14x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #drdo, #indiannavy, #ngmv.
- What is Defence Decode®'s engagement rate on X?
- Defence Decode® (@DefenceDecode) has an engagement rate of 0.223%, based on the median interactions across 21 original posts from the last 30 days against 130,610 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.223%, Defence Decode® sits above the 50th 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 @DefenceDecode have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 68% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @DefenceDecode post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.97 posts per day across the measured window.