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Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News engagement report

@GENbio - 90K followers on X

Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.015%
of 90K followers
Per impression
0.884%
1.5K views on a typical post
Reach
1.70%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
14
interactions (median)
Saved
0.131%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.33/day
active 53% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 14 interactions against 90K followers, an engagement rate of 0.015%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 22% of 4,310 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 1.5K times each, and 0.884% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.70% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 15% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 36 interactions, about 2.6x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #biotech, #nextgen, #bioprocessing.

Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026. Recurring tags: #biotech, #nextgen, #bioprocessing.

Compared with accounts its own size

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News's engagement rate beats 22% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,310 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 4 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 40% 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 0.015%, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News sits above the 25th percentile of the 41,681 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.013% to 0.083%.

p100.002%
p250.013%
p50 (median)0.083%
p750.447%
p902.07%
p99143.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 41,681 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 89,603 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.013%
50th percentile0.083%
75th percentile0.447%
90th percentile2.07%
99th percentile143.4%

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 15:00 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: 15:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 15:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%58K
01:00 UTC-2%59K
02:00 UTC-3%58K
03:00 UTC-4%62K
04:00 UTC-6%50K
05:00 UTC-5%48K
06:00 UTC-5%56K
07:00 UTC-4%60K
08:00 UTC-4%70K
09:00 UTC-4%81K
10:00 UTC-3%83K
11:00 UTC-3%91K
12:00 UTC-2%100K
13:00 UTC-2%109K
14:00 UTC-3%112K
15:00 UTC-2%116K
16:00 UTC-4%113K
17:00 UTC-3%105K
18:00 UTC-2%98K
19:00 UTC-2%92K
20:00 UTC-1%86K
21:00 UTC-1%76K
22:00 UTC-2%66K
23:00 UTC-1%59K
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 5%Busiest day: Thursday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%255K
Monday+1%328K
Tuesday-2%353K
Wednesday-4%317K
Thursday-2%269K
Friday-3%276K
Saturday+3%249K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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  • Aug 16, 20261.9x their median

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  • Aug 18, 20261.9x their median

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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

#biotech#nextgen#bioprocessing#neurons#artificialintelligence

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 14 interactions against 90K followers, an engagement rate of 0.015%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 22% of 4,310 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 1.5K times each, and 0.884% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.70% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 15% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 36 interactions, about 2.6x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #biotech, #nextgen, #bioprocessing.

What is Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News's engagement rate on X?
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (@GENbio) has an engagement rate of 0.015%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 89,595 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.015%, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News sits above the 25th percentile of the 41,681 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 @GENbio have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 22% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,310 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 @GENbio post?
Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.

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