Jayaprakash Narayan engagement report
@JP_LOKSATTA - 908K followers on X
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 21, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 34 interactions against 908K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 21% of 1,003 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 16K times each, and 0.217% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.72% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.9 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video and 38% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.3K interactions, about 125x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #fpjeditpage, #hyderabad, #opinion.
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 21, 2026. Recurring tags: #fpjeditpage, #hyderabad, #opinion.
Compared with accounts its own size
Jayaprakash Narayan's engagement rate beats 21% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 5 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 15% 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 0.004%, Jayaprakash Narayan sits above the 10th percentile of the 10,326 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.007%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.007% |
| 50th percentile | 0.048% |
| 75th percentile | 0.321% |
| 90th percentile | 2.48% |
| 99th percentile | 354.0% |
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 00:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | 0% | 15K |
| 01:00 UTC | +4% | 15K |
| 02:00 UTC | -1% | 14K |
| 03:00 UTC | -2% | 15K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 05:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 06:00 UTC | -7% | 13K |
| 07:00 UTC | -6% | 14K |
| 08:00 UTC | -7% | 17K |
| 09:00 UTC | -2% | 19K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 20K |
| 11:00 UTC | -2% | 22K |
| 12:00 UTC | -1% | 24K |
| 13:00 UTC | +1% | 27K |
| 14:00 UTC | -2% | 29K |
| 15:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 16:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 17:00 UTC | -1% | 28K |
| 18:00 UTC | +1% | 25K |
| 19:00 UTC | 0% | 24K |
| 20:00 UTC | 0% | 22K |
| 21:00 UTC | +1% | 19K |
| 22:00 UTC | +1% | 17K |
| 23:00 UTC | +1% | 15K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +8% | 59K |
| Monday | +8% | 72K |
| Tuesday | +1% | 94K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 78K |
| Thursday | -3% | 71K |
| Friday | -5% | 73K |
| Saturday | +2% | 64K |
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 | 85% of posts | +79% | +73% to +85% | 5.8K |
| Outbound link | 38% of posts | -49% | -50% to -47% | 6.1K |
| Typical length | - | -5% | -7% to -4% | 7.9K |
- 85% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 79% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 38% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 49% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 200 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters run 5% below 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
- Jun 16, 2026125x their median
I don't know who else to tell this to, so I am going to tell my story here. Every day is a struggle for a young business, but the last few months have been harder than usual. We are a small Indian company. For more than ten years we have been building a homegrown brand in a product category dominated by big foreign players. There are almost no Indian names in this space. We set out to be one. We started in 2014. Over the years we began making parts in India instead of just importing, and we started selling in the US, Dubai, Nepal, Malaysia and South Africa. We showed up at global trade fairs to represent an Indian brand on the world stage. In 2023 we changed the import code we use for our product. We did not do this quietly. Every shipment was declared. Nothing was hidden. We didn't invent our approach. We followed written professional advice and the way this product is treated in markets around the world. And now we are facing a government demand running into tens of crores in duty recovery and penalties, plus personal penalties on the founders and even on an employee. For a company our size, this is not a fine we can pay and move on from. This ends us. We have not run from any of this. I am not built like that. It is not how I was raised. We have written to the authorities, met officials in person, and we have now filed a writ in the High Court. All we are asking for is a fair treatment. I set out to build in India and sell to the world. I am asking only that the system back honest founders trying to compete globally, instead of breaking them. The process is the process, and it exists for a reason. But process should not feel like punishment. From where I am standing today, it does. I am not giving up. I have worked too hard for this. If you have read this far, please share it. If you know someone who can help, point them my way. Help me get the word out.
- Jul 7, 202668x their median
My new EAC-PM working paper (with Satvik Dev) argues that India’s rising solar penetration is causing grid stress. While solar is meeting more midday demand, it also forces conventional sources, especially thermal plants, to ramp up and down more sharply to meet the net load. This is visible in both the summer “duck” curve and winter “camel” curve, putting grid operations under stress . Three signals show the stress. First, prices: in May 2026, power on the IEX day-ahead market averaged Rs 1.11 per unit at midday but Rs 9.71 at night. Second, curtailment: about 24 GWh of solar was wasted daily in May. Third, shortages: the grid fell short of non-solar-hour peak demand on 36 days in April-May, compared with only 6 days for solar-hour peak demand. The paper supports the direction of the Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2025, and draft Electricity (Rights of Consumers) Amendment Rules, 2026. But it cautions that without adequate storage and net-load smoothing policies, solar growth will intensify grid stress. https://t.co/e7ZbWkdPeB
- May 8, 202628x their median
All is well that ends well. Good that TVK had obtained written support of enough members to constitute a majority, and the governor invited Vijay to form the government. Let us now hope the new government will serve the people of Tamilnadu well and fulfill the aspirations of the people. An election is not about the candidates and parties; it is about the people. Election is not about who wins; it is about what happens after the election, and whether people win ultimately.
- Jul 14, 202626x their median
In the burning heat of Madras in 1946, a young man walks the dusty streets carrying a heavy gunny bag filled with colored toy balloons. He sells them directly to street vendors and children, counting out copper coins just to secure his next meal. K.M. Mammen Mappillai belonged to a prominent family in Kerala. His father, K.C. Mammen Mappillai, was the chief editor of the highly influential Malayala Manorama newspaper & a powerful banker. In the late 1938, his father clashed fiercely with Sir C.P. Ramaswami Iyer, the tyrannical Diwan (Prime Minister) of the princely state of Travancore. The state govt locked down the newspaper, seized the family’s assets & shut down their bank, throwing his father into jail. Overnight, 1 of the wealthiest families in the region was left completely bankrupt. By 1946, young Mammen Mappillai had graduated in science from Madras Christian College. He had no money, no ancestral wealth & no place to live, often sleeping on the floors of acquaintances. Refusing to be broken, he pooled a tiny bit of borrowed money & set up a makeshift, completely manual rubber workshop in a small wooden shed in Tiruvottiyur, a suburb of Madras. He called it the Madras Rubber Factory (MRF). He did not have the machines or the capital to build industrial rubber goods, so he chose the cheapest product possible: toy balloons. The early days were pure manual labor. Mammen Mappillai’s wife, who had a background in chemistry, helped him manually mix the rubber latex, dye & chemicals in their home. They hand-dipped wooden templates into the latex mix to form balloons. Once the balloons dried, Mammen Mappillai packed them into gunny bags, walked into the heart of Madras & sold them street by street directly to vendors & children to secure daily cash flow. By 1949, the small shed operation stabilized. They upgraded from just balloons to making latex gloves & cast rubber toys. But Mammen Mappillai knew that selling toys on the street corner would never pull his family out of financial ruin. The watershed moment came in 1952. He noticed that post-war India was experiencing a huge surge in commercial trucking, but the country lacked a domestic supply of tread rubber (the thick, patterned rubber strip used to retread worn out tires to make them reusable). Transportation companies were spending massive foreign exchange importing tread rubber from global giants like Dunlop. Mammen Mappillai made a high-stakes gamble. He took every single rupee he had saved from 6 yrs of selling balloons & toys, abandoned the consumer novelty market & pivoted MRF entirely into heavy industrial manufacturing to make tread rubber. The gamble was a masterstroke. Because his tread rubber was locally manufactured & significantly cheaper than foreign imports, Indian transport operators flocked to MRF. Within just 4 yrs (by 1956), the little balloon shed had captured a staggering 50% market share of all tread rubber sold in India. Having mastered the tread, the final evolutionary step was inevitable: making the actual tire. In 1961, MRF went public & signed a crucial technical partnership with the Mansfield Tire & Rubber Company of the United States. The company came full circle in 1989. Now a massive tire conglomerate, MRF partnered with Hasbro (the world's largest toy maker) to launch Funskool India, bringing the industrial giant right back to its original roots of making toys for children. When K.M. Mammen Mappillai was awarded the Padma Shri in 1992, he was no longer the bankrupt student sleeping on the floors of acquaintances. He was the architect of a global empire. Today, MRF is a multi-billion-dollar powerhouse exporting specialized tyres to 65+ countries, its iconic logo stamped on the bats of the world’s greatest cricketers. It stands as a towering monument to a simple, unyielding truth: you can strip a family of their banks, their buildings & their land, but you can never strip away the relentless, unstoppable drive of a mathematical & entrepreneurial mind determined to rebuild from a single hand-dipped balloon.
- Jun 10, 202616x their median
The RO in MP Rajya Sabha election was clearly wrong in rejecting the nomination of Ms Meenakshi Natarajan of Congress. A petition to a party leader A to take action against another party member B for alleged misdeed/crime does not make A culpable. A court complaint against A that she did not act on the representation is not a criminal complaint against A. A is not culpable; the only complaint is that the senior party leader A did not take action within the party against B. At worst it was a political failure to discipline and errant member. Rejecting the nomination on such a specious ground is a travesty of democracy. The EC should step in: if the rejection order by RO was already officially communicated, the the election should be countermanded; RO should be replaced forthwith and reelection conducted starting with fresh nominations; and the erring RO who rejected the nomination on spurious ground should face disciplinary action. I was in the forefront of the movement for disclosure of candidate details. The pioneering work of Lok Satta movement declaring to the public the criminal record of 42 candidates from AP in 1999 initiated the whole process. Cavalier resort to disqualification is not the way to reform and improve democracy. We all should display maturity and wisdom. The electors elect the representatives, not the RO. The is a fit case for EC's decisive intervention.
- Aug 20, 202615x their median
My latest #TharoorThink column laments the dysfunctionality of our Parliament and our democratic culture. I suggest a simple way forward, but is anyone actually interested in a solution? @IndianExpress
- May 20, 20269.3x their median
In the 2nd piece, Devesh Kapur & I discuss the step-child of governance-the third tier-which also gets overlooked in discussions of federalism Why does PM Nehru’s lament about Allahabad which he headed 100 years ago echo today across all cities with similar sad salience? https://t.co/5axpE04Rpt
- Jul 19, 20269.1x their median
Heartiest congratulations to Pawan, Bharat and the whole Skyroot Aerospace team! It is innovation, entrepreneurship and courage like this that make dreams come true! They are an inspiration to to a whole generation of Indians.
- Jul 6, 20268.7x their median
India is the world's largest producer and exporter of rice, yet the Food Corporation of India (FCI) is holding rice stocks that are nearly five times the prescribed buffer norm, at a carrying cost of over Rs. 10,712 crores in FY25. In their latest article, Ashok Gulati, Ritika Juneja, and Purvi Thangaraj trace this surplus to three interlinked policy distortions: open-ended MSP procurement, with several states offering bonuses above the MSP; free electricity and heavily subsidised urea. Instead of addressing these underlying distortions, the government's response has been to divert surplus rice to ethanol production, supplying rice to distilleries at Rs. 23/kg despite FCI's economic cost of about Rs. 44/kg on the justification that it is broken and damaged rice. The authors also highlight the environmental costs of the current policy framework, including the use of ~ 4,000 litres of water to produce one kilogram of rice, high methane emissions from paddy cultivation, and nitrate contamination of groundwater associated with serious health risks. To address these challenges, the authors recommend capping state procurement at 40% of production, discontinuing state MSP bonuses, limiting free PDS supplies to the most vulnerable households, shifting ethanol production towards maize, and replacing fertiliser subsidies with direct income support. Read more: Financial Express: https://t.co/PGado3L3Dg Indian Express: https://t.co/43KiCohXWn
- Jul 23, 20267.1x their median
The BJP govt has faced major protest every 2-3 year, but this is the first where clear counter-narrative is not available. And, the CJP protest has arrived amidst multiple headwinds this govt. is facing. Need an astute political judgment to tide over. https://t.co/WkUG094ui8
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 34 interactions against 908K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 21% of 1,003 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 16K times each, and 0.217% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.72% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.9 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video and 38% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.3K interactions, about 125x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #fpjeditpage, #hyderabad, #opinion.
- What is Jayaprakash Narayan's engagement rate on X?
- Jayaprakash Narayan (@JP_LOKSATTA) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 13 original posts from the last 30 days against 908,107 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.004%, Jayaprakash Narayan sits above the 10th percentile of the 10,326 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 @JP_LOKSATTA have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 21% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 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 @JP_LOKSATTA post?
- Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.9 posts per day across the measured window.