Nikkei Asia engagement report
@NikkeiAsia - 489K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 23, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 489K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 10% of 20,444 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 2.3K times each, and 0.175% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.468% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 3% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 13% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 304 interactions, about 76x its own typical post.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 23, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Nikkei Asia's engagement rate beats 10% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 12% 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 0.001%, Nikkei Asia sits below the 10th percentile of the 205,374 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 | 0.143% |
| 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 12:00 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 | -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 | 13% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 13% 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 126 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% 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
- Sep 6, 202676x their median
Indonesia's biggest economic risk may not be debt or inflation, but the erosion of trust in policymaking. https://t.co/mzZn2MydpD https://t.co/iIFEvSG7xq
- Oct 22, 202674x their median
Japan to arrange $6bn in private-sector investment in Bangladesh https://t.co/fER7yoLR2r
- Sep 20, 202627x their median
The Philippines wants renewables to supply 50% of its power by 2040. Japanese companies are rushing in with investments in solar, batteries and electricity retailing. https://t.co/CP3BsoVtXh
- Aug 28, 202625x their median
Japan's number of births rises for first time in 11 years https://t.co/mELr4T3epz
- Sep 20, 202616x their median
Taiwan to open new Philippines mission in diplomatic push, sources say Office in Cebu planned as Southeast Asia is increasingly split by China pressure https://t.co/cUhLnxfE5G
- Sep 6, 202615x their median
Japan's Kumamoto Airport plans flights to Thailand https://t.co/gs52FZcR54
- Sep 20, 202614x their median
This was our most read opinion piece for the week. Pakistani-Turkish-Saudi pact challenges India's westward engagement https://t.co/Of3Kt7kD8o
- Sep 6, 202613x their median
India is installing about 100,000 rooftop solar systems a week. Yet five states account for roughly 70% of the total, testing national energy goals. https://t.co/NjbwQCygAC
- Sep 20, 202611x their median
New $11bn canal underscores China's turn toward Southeast Asia Construction completed in just 4 years while overseas projects make little headway https://t.co/lz6ez4jS6J
- Sep 8, 202610x their median
Watch & Read Myanmar military intensifies operations to retake China project areas https://t.co/i7rcvBwpi1 https://t.co/H47gnDjjhz
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 4 interactions against 489K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 10% of 20,444 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 2.3K times each, and 0.175% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.468% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 3% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 13% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 304 interactions, about 76x its own typical post.
- What is Nikkei Asia's engagement rate on X?
- Nikkei Asia (@NikkeiAsia) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 489,345 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Nikkei Asia sits below the 10th percentile of the 205,374 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 @NikkeiAsia have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 10% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @NikkeiAsia post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.