Nandan Nilekani engagement report
@NandanNilekani - 2.6M followers on X
Measured over 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on October 8, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 1 original post 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 166 interactions against 2.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Posts are seen about 29K times each, and 0.57% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.11% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.03 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 3% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 23K interactions, about 141x its own typical post. Only 1 original post 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 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on October 8, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.006%, Nandan Nilekani sits above the 10th percentile of the 156,396 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.022%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.003% |
| 25th percentile | 0.022% |
| 50th percentile | 0.127% |
| 75th percentile | 0.604% |
| 90th percentile | 2.32% |
| 99th percentile | 83.4% |
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 05:00 UTC, and Saturday 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 | 0% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 0% 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 256 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
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
- Feb 24, 2025141x their median
As mentioned in yesterday’s #MannKiBaat, I would like to nominate the following people to help strengthen the fight against obesity and spread awareness on reducing edible oil consumption in food. I also request them to nominate 10 people each so that our movement gets bigger! @anandmahindra @nirahua1 @realmanubhaker @mirabai_chanu @Mohanlal @NandanNilekani @OmarAbdullah @ActorMadhavan @shreyaghoshal @SmtSudhaMurty Collectively, let us make India fitter and healthier. #FightObesity
- Apr 1, 202535x their median
The time is right for another massive unlock: Tokenisation of land assets. To understand how this can turbocharge the economy, see👇 Full video here: https://t.co/NboKoiSIXh https://t.co/JlGeBEneYn
- Mar 28, 202531x their median
Energy is the next UPI! Millions of small producers will participate in the Digital Energy Grid (DEG). Full video: https://t.co/NboKoiSIXh https://t.co/o2MbSquesQ
- Apr 29, 202618x their median
India doesn't need to lead the world in building the most advanced AI models. But it must lead in ensuring benefits of AI are widely shared. @rvenk and I have an op-ed in The @EconomicTimes https://t.co/yuzgkRXXWf
- May 24, 202512x their median
In 25 years, India will have 300mn elders. It’s time for a mental reset – from making second careers possible, to recognising hours of caregiving they provide, to finding ways to keep them socially active. Sharing Rohini's op-ed in @timesofindia on how silver can be the new black! @RNP_Foundation has also commissioned a report on longevity which will come out next week. https://t.co/jQuRFx094Z
- Apr 7, 20258.3x their median
Half of India'a workforce will be AI-native. What does this mean for India and the future of work in our nation?👇 Full video: https://t.co/NboKoiSb7J https://t.co/01jXy4IFDn
- Mar 21, 20258.3x their median
8️⃣8️⃣8️⃣ Presenting, #TheGreatUnlock: My thoughts on how 8 reforms across tech, capital, entrepreneurship and population-scale formalisation can help India grow at 8% and become an $8T economy by 2035! https://t.co/W6OmdbmIHj @arkam_vc @bsrinivasa
- Mar 24, 20258.2x their median
1 million Indian start-ups by 2035! It's happening due to binary fission and an explosion of new businesses in Bharat. More here👇 https://t.co/kAKp86UuR1
- Jul 24, 20255.4x their median
Prioritizing inclusivity in healthcare should not come at the expense of patient harm. Yet, that’s exactly what is happening. I run a maternity-care hospital and public health non-profit in India. I founded them so that more Indian women would have access to Western-style ethical and evidence-based medicine. So I have been dismayed to watch the West abandon those principles. Link below.
- Mar 6, 20255.0x their median
In 2015-16, I had anticipated the digital transformation that was then underway when I presented ‘The WhatsApp moment for banking’ in India. I am now taking a stab at predicting the next decade of transformation, on the 12th of March at 5:30pm at @arkam_vc's event at JW Marriott in Bengaluru. I will present on what are the Big Unlocks needed to drive India from 6% to 8 % growth and become an $8T economy by 2035! https://t.co/unkq7hmpYt @bsrinivasa
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 166 interactions against 2.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Posts are seen about 29K times each, and 0.57% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.11% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.03 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 3% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 23K interactions, about 141x its own typical post. Only 1 original post 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 Nandan Nilekani's engagement rate on X?
- Nandan Nilekani (@NandanNilekani) has an engagement rate of 0.006%, based on the median interactions across 1 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,627,819 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.006%, Nandan Nilekani sits above the 10th percentile of the 156,396 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 @NandanNilekani have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @NandanNilekani post?
- Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.03 posts per day across the measured window.