The Indian Express engagement report
@IndianExpress - 4.4M followers on X
Measured over 420 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 3 interactions against 4.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 420 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% of 3,758 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 3.8K times each, and 0.079% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.086% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 19.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 420 posts sampled, 15% carry an image or video and 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.9K interactions, about 1957x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #indvssl, #crickettwitter, #indianrailways.
Measured over 420 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #indvssl, #crickettwitter, #indianrailways.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Indian Express's engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 6% 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 under 0.001%, The Indian Express sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 17:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 26, 20261957x their median
91% of names back in Bengal electoral roll as SIR tribunals dispose of handful of appeals https://t.co/Ml090Kacao
- Aug 18, 2026361x their median
What happened to Imran Khan? Gavaskar, Kapil Dev raised health concerns; Supreme Court stepped in https://t.co/5P15SUdqlA @NischaiVats
- Aug 19, 2026203x their median
What happened to Imran Khan? Gavaskar and Kapil Dev had raised health concerns; Supreme Court steps in https://t.co/7pWjAMsBfW
- Aug 29, 2026138x their median
Women from three slum clusters near the Prime Minister’s residence approached the Congress office, seeking Rahul Gandhi’s intervention for “dignified rehabilitation” after the Delhi High Court cleared the way for their eviction. Residents are opposing relocation to Savda Ghevra, nearly 45 km away, and are demanding rehabilitation in situ or suitable accommodation before eviction. Click on the 🔗 below to read the full article. https://t.co/3vu3jl3hki Written by: Sohini Ghosh
- Aug 17, 202655x their median
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay apologised in the Assembly for Forest Minister Ranjithkumar’s remarks on former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi. https://t.co/0qwqY53JKy
- Aug 18, 202651x their median
March to July, Government sent one blocking order to social media firms every minute https://t.co/jzGaIhjjNG
- Aug 23, 202634x their median
Raipur police arrested six people, including a professor identified as the alleged mastermind, in connection with the leak of the https://t.co/wRHbyW2S1j. (Agriculture) second-year, second-semester Entomology examination paper of Indira Gandhi Agricultural University The alleged mastermind, 38-year-old Yogesh Sonkesariya, is a professor at Bharti Agriculture College in Durg, where he has been employed since 2019. Read: https://t.co/NxjlSjeKEf
- Aug 22, 202627x their median
#ExpressSpecial |Neha Pachisia, a Madhya Pradesh police officer who earlier worked as an air hostess before joining the public service, has been suspended after being accused of demanding Rs 15 lakh from the family of a murder accused and allegedly getting the man’s father’s land transferred to an associate at a fraction of its value. Click on the 🔗 below to read the full article. https://t.co/zlm4eNcWMk Written by: Anand Mohan J Design by: Alok Kumar
- Aug 18, 202627x their median
Former Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain arrested by the Delhi’s Anti-Corruption Branch in connection with the alleged Delhi Jal Board scam https://t.co/cFyEyAgp5L
- Aug 18, 202627x their median
‘Don’t you know Hindu culture?’: Tourists wearing shorts slapped at Pune fort, 8 booked https://t.co/j99sK8UkCh
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 3 interactions against 4.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 420 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% of 3,758 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 3.8K times each, and 0.079% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.086% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 19.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 420 posts sampled, 15% carry an image or video and 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.9K interactions, about 1957x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #indvssl, #crickettwitter, #indianrailways.
- What is The Indian Express's engagement rate on X?
- The Indian Express (@IndianExpress) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 420 original posts from the last 30 days against 4,391,997 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, The Indian Express sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,521 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 @IndianExpress have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% 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 @IndianExpress post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 19.7 posts per day across the measured window.