IBM Research engagement report
@IBMResearch - 232K followers on X
Measured over 3 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 30, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 3 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.
A typical post picks up 102 interactions against 232K followers, an engagement rate of 0.044%. Posts are seen about 6.9K times each, and 1.48% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.98% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.17 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 3 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 958 interactions, about 9.4x its own typical post. Only 3 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
Measured over 3 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 30, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.044%, IBM Research sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,475 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 | 0.678% |
| 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 16:00 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 | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 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.
- 100% 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 289 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
- Nov 12, 20259.4x their median
.@IBM reveals latest quantum processorsâIBM Quantum Loon and IBM Quantum Nighthawkâand all future chips on our quantum development roadmap are being fabricated at the Albany NanoTech Complex (@CNSE) using 300mm semiconductor wafer technology: https://t.co/45p1ZwcMib #QDC25 https://t.co/3y5pZ5LSe7
- Aug 25, 20268.1x their median
Meet Granite 4.2, IBMâs latest family of open models purpose-built for enterprise agentic AI. With new native reasoning capabilities, Granite 4.2 can plan, reason, self-correct and reliably use tools to help automate complex enterprise workflows âŹď¸
- Jan 30, 20265.7x their median
Researchers from @IBM present the first quantum algorithm capable of efficiently simulating stochastic differential equations, making it the first such algorithm able to simulate chaotic, nonâlinear systems â something classical computers struggle with: https://t.co/YJVVFaAXy3 https://t.co/G1mvUaNliK
- Mar 31, 20264.2x their median
Quantum simulation is moving into realâmaterials territory. A multiâinstitution team used IBM quantum hardware to model magnetic materials such as KCuFâ with high accuracy â a concrete step toward quantumâenabled materials science. Read more: https://t.co/lB3oqb4bp4 https://t.co/SCS4fP1nWz
- Feb 6, 20263.3x their median
Researchers from the Basque Quantum Initiative, @NIST, and @IBM create one of the largest, most sophisticated demonstrations of a time crystal on an IBM Quantum Heron processor: https://t.co/brqsawRx7g Full paper published in @Nature Communication here: https://t.co/RWv7UzEPL3 https://t.co/i0zVc7uItV
- Nov 20, 20253.1x their median
Today, @IBM and @Cisco announce plans to collaborate on laying the groundwork for a distributed quantum computing network: https://t.co/fzvo8ZRYie Our first milestone: entangling a pair of cryogenically separated quantum processors within the next five years. https://t.co/E4eO3V6dtq
- Feb 4, 20262.8x their median
Momentum is building for quantum-centric supercomputing. Results from our partners at @ORNL, @AMD, @RIKEN_en, @AlgorithmiqHQ, and the quantum community are showing how GPUs + QPUs can accelerate workflows and boost the fidelity of quantum computations: https://t.co/RTzFFFmlFb https://t.co/9gw0AFXc0w
- May 6, 20262.7x their median
Largest protein simulation yet on a quantum computer. đ Explore how @ClevelandClinic, @riken_en & IBM modeled 12,635 protein complex with new algorithm and quantumâcentric workflow: https://t.co/uUAIwCYiyr https://t.co/MEqj3uEg9Q
- Aug 19, 20262.3x their median
Quantum computers run cold. Really cold. âď¸ @LiveScience takes a look inside IBMâs new modular cryogenic architecture, designed to connect quantum processors while keeping them at temperatures near absolute zero. đ§ľ A few things worth knowing:
- Sep 10, 20261.8x their median
Today, @IBM and @LockheedMartin, together with @ETH_en Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, launched a new quantum innovation hub in Switzerland: https://t.co/yrsTdn8qLF The new hub will soon host the countryâs first IBM Quantum System Two https://t.co/ir3c4aSKGz
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 102 interactions against 232K followers, an engagement rate of 0.044%. Posts are seen about 6.9K times each, and 1.48% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.98% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.17 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 3 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 958 interactions, about 9.4x its own typical post. Only 3 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
- What is IBM Research's engagement rate on X?
- IBM Research (@IBMResearch) has an engagement rate of 0.044%, based on the median interactions across 3 original posts from the last 30 days against 231,727 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.044%, IBM Research sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,475 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 @IBMResearch have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @IBMResearch post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.17 posts per day across the measured window.