Instituto Cervantes engagement report
@InstCervantes - 225K followers on X
Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 225K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% of 19,932 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 1.1K times each, and 0.492% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.498% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video, 31% are part of a thread and 81% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 87 interactions, about 15x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #cajadelasletras, #descubretuciudadideal, #casals150.
Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #cajadelasletras, #descubretuciudadideal, #casals150.
Compared with accounts its own size
Instituto Cervantes's engagement rate beats 11% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 26% 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 0.002%, Instituto Cervantes sits below the 10th percentile of the 200,758 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.141% |
| 75th percentile | 0.67% |
| 90th percentile | 2.53% |
| 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 11:00 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 | 94% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 81% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 94% 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.
- 81% 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 285 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 3, 202615x their median
Esta cuenta no tendrá actividad durante el mes de agosto. ¡Volvemos en septiembre! https://t.co/CeFShzedR2
- Jul 16, 20265.7x their median
#JerezdelaFrontera acogerá la #ReuniónAnualdelInstitutoCervantes del 27 al 29 de julio | ℹ️ https://t.co/6TCQjbApoE La cita congregará a todos los directivos de la institución, en España y el mundo, encabezados por su director, #LuisGarcíaMontero. @casareal @MAECgob @ciudadjerez https://t.co/5a27D2fh5U
- Sep 16, 20263.8x their median
👉El Cervantes abrirá una Cátedra en la Queen’s University (@QUBelfast), que este año celebra un siglo de su Departamento de Español, lo que supondrá la primera presencia de la institución española en #IrlandadelNorte. ℹ️Más información: https://t.co/7y2DgedPrD @ICManchester https://t.co/DhFvtyNkVN
- Jul 30, 20263.8x their median
#LuisGarcíaMontero, nuestro director, ha participado esta mañana en el #EncuentroSERColombino que organiza @RadioHuelva, celebrado en el #MuelledelasCarabelas (#LaRábida, #PalosdelaFrontera). Ayer se clausuró en #JerezdelaFrontera (#Cádiz) la #ReuniónAnualdelInstitutoCervantes. https://t.co/OdodsKoqwh
- Sep 7, 20263.5x their median
¿Cuál es la palabra favorita del español de @carlos_cuerpo? ¿A qué gran personalidad de nuestra cultura elegiría para depositar un legado en nuestra #CajadelasLetras? El vicepresidente primero y ministro de @_minecogob ha visitado hoy la sede central del Instituto en Madrid. https://t.co/tyxZAgRByM
- Jun 12, 20263.5x their median
🤗#ProfesELE, ya está abierto el plazo de inscripción para los #cursos que se celebrarán hasta finales de 2026. Descubre toda la oferta formativa en https://t.co/M22VJ1Hljg y matricúlate en https://t.co/8KniEnmdO6 ¡Te esperamos en el @InstCervantes! 🙌 https://t.co/BJmb74jsLD
- Sep 11, 20262.2x their median
📢¡Nueva edición! 💻#Descubretuciudadideal es un microcurso gratuito y en línea del @InstCervantes, nivel A2-B1. 🏙 Conocerás cuatro ciudades españolas y aprenderás a expresar tus gustos y preferencias en #español. 📝https://t.co/L93CjUfIKn #Nooc #ELE 👇 https://t.co/Ok5lq22Rnz
- Sep 1, 20261.8x their median
En #Septiembre ⛅️🍂, vuelve la actividad cultural y académica al @InstCervantes. 📝 Echa un vistazo a nuestra agenda: https://t.co/34f5AOp6RG 📲 Descárgala en tu móvil, ¡y no te pierdas nada! ⬇️ Android: https://t.co/ezopZnE8CM ⬇️ IOS: https://t.co/xn9BKAzq7u https://t.co/XYXmhzaBNi
- Sep 23, 20261.7x their median
El @InstCervantes intensificará su participación en el Congreso Internacional de Cervantistas. ℹ️ https://t.co/qtNiaReviG Firma un convenio con la @acervantistas para divulgar el hispanismo y difundir la obra del autor del #Quijote. https://t.co/ceFMtX90yu
- Sep 11, 20261.7x their median
📢¡Nueva edición! 💻#Descubretuciudadideal es un microcurso gratuito y en línea del @InstCervantes, nivel A2-B1. 🏙 Conocerás cuatro ciudades españolas y aprenderás a expresar tus gustos y preferencias en #español. 📝https://t.co/L93CjUfIKn #Nooc #ELE 👇 https://t.co/IG9XE2TuuB
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 6 interactions against 225K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% of 19,932 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 1.1K times each, and 0.492% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.498% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video, 31% are part of a thread and 81% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 87 interactions, about 15x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #cajadelasletras, #descubretuciudadideal, #casals150.
- What is Instituto Cervantes's engagement rate on X?
- Instituto Cervantes (@InstCervantes) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 16 original posts from the last 30 days against 224,711 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, Instituto Cervantes sits below the 10th percentile of the 200,758 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 @InstCervantes have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 11% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 @InstCervantes post?
- Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.77 posts per day across the measured window.