Defence Index engagement report
@Defence_Index - 252K followers on X
Measured over 56 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 142 interactions against 252K followers, an engagement rate of 0.056%. Measured over 56 original posts, its engagement rate beats 49% 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 9.0K times each, and 1.58% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.58% 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 63% of days. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 56 posts sampled, 64% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.7K interactions, about 26x its own typical post.
Measured over 56 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Defence Index's engagement rate beats 49% 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 56% 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 0.056%, Defence Index sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,582 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.679% |
| 90th percentile | 2.56% |
| 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 | 64% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 64% 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.
- 0% 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 723 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.
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
- Aug 29, 202626x their median
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- Aug 16, 202616x their median
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- Aug 29, 20269.4x their median
🇵🇰 BREAKING: Pakistan unveils a new long range kamikaze drone with a staggering 3,000 km range. A major development in Pakistan’s long range drone capabilities. https://t.co/t6uKVuQ23k
- Aug 28, 20268.2x their median
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- Aug 8, 20268.2x their median
🚨 THE NEW POWER TRIANGLE 🇵🇰🇸🇦🇹🇷 Pakistan 🇵🇰 + Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 + Türkiye 🇹🇷 are now joining forces under a landmark defence pact, creating a powerful strategic partnership spanning ~$3.4 TRILLION in combined GDP, more than 1 million active troops, and thousands of military aircraft. 🇵🇰 Pakistan: ~170 nuclear warheads, a major missile force, one of the world’s largest standing armies, plus a substantial and growing stockpile of fissile material that could support further arsenal expansion. 🇹🇷 Türkiye: NATO standard armed forces, a rapidly expanding indigenous defence industry, advanced drones, missiles, naval power and next generation combat aircraft programmes. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: enormous financial power, one of the world’s largest defence budgets, advanced Western weapons, modern air defence systems and strategic influence across the Middle East. And the most consequential clause: ⚠️ AN ARMED ATTACK ON ONE WILL BE CONSIDERED AN ATTACK ON ALL THREE. This isn't simply another defence agreement. It brings together Pakistan’s nuclear deterrence ☢️, Türkiye’s defence technology 🇹🇷 and Saudi Arabia’s economic power 💰 under one strategic umbrella. A new power centre is emerging across the Muslim world. The regional strategic balance may have just changed.
- Aug 6, 20268.2x their median
🇹🇷🇸🇾 JUST IN: Turkey says any threat to Syria will be considered a threat to Turkey. https://t.co/xgLhVsQ3tM
- Jul 31, 20266.4x their median
🇹🇷 JUST IN: Turkey's KAAN Is No Longer Just a Prototype, It's Moving. Turkey's fifth generation KAAN P1 has begun runway taxi tests, signaling that its maiden flight is drawing closer. What was once an ambitious vision is now rolling toward the runway, as Turkey pushes to establish itself among the nations developing indigenous fifth generation stealth fighters. The next time KAAN powers up, it could be leaving the ground. 🇹🇷✈️ History is getting closer.
- Aug 8, 20266.3x their median
🇵🇰 JUST IN: Pakistan has unveiled TWO new long range loitering munitions, the D-248 and S-369, at the 2026 Indus Robotics & Autonomous Systems Expo. 🔹 D-248: 2,200–3,000 km range 🔹 S-369: 1,500–2,000 km range 🔹 Payload: 30–50 kg 🔹 D-248 endurance: 12–14 hours 🔹 D-248 top speed: 225 km/h 🔹 S-369 top speed: 220 km/h 🇮🇳 The D-248’s claimed 3,000-km maximum range could place virtually the entire Indian mainland within its potential range envelope, depending on launch location. 🇵🇰 A major expansion of Pakistan’s long range autonomous strike capabilities.
- Aug 6, 20265.6x their median
🇸🇴🇵🇰 JUST IN: Somalia to purchase 24 JF-17 fighter jets from Pakistan, sources close to the Somali Defence Ministry claim. https://t.co/a74fSHeHev
- Aug 30, 20265.0x their median
🇹🇷 BREAKING: Turkey Is Building Its Own Amphibious Assault Vehicles As It Eyes Great Power Status Turkey is strengthening its amphibious warfare capabilities with the indigenous ZAHA amphibious assault vehicle, designed to carry Marines from ships to shore while providing armored protection. The vehicle operates on both land and water, reaching up to 70 km/h on land and 7 knots at sea. From ship to battlefield, Turkey is building the tools for power projection.
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.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 142 interactions against 252K followers, an engagement rate of 0.056%. Measured over 56 original posts, its engagement rate beats 49% 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 9.0K times each, and 1.58% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.58% 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 63% of days. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 56 posts sampled, 64% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.7K interactions, about 26x its own typical post.
- What is Defence Index's engagement rate on X?
- Defence Index (@Defence_Index) has an engagement rate of 0.056%, based on the median interactions across 56 original posts from the last 30 days against 252,324 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.056%, Defence Index sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,582 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 @Defence_Index have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 49% 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 @Defence_Index post?
- Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.9 posts per day across the measured window.