Nikkei Asia engagement report
@NikkeiAsia - 482K followers on X
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 3 interactions against 482K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% of 3,899 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 3.0K times each, and 0.101% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.615% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 8% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 101 interactions, about 34x its own typical post.
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Nikkei Asia's engagement rate beats 6% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 7% 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 37,701 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 | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 156.3% |
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 14:00 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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Aug 28, 202634x their median
Japan's number of births rises for first time in 11 years https://t.co/mELr4T3epz
- Aug 28, 202610x their median
China removes top generals from state Central Military Commission https://t.co/Is6BzxQzbL
- Aug 28, 20266.3x their median
Australia's Pacific rivalry with China heats up after Beijing's ICBM test https://t.co/0pKGLpAQKv https://t.co/bjN54XwwtK
- Aug 28, 20266.0x their median
Cambodia claims to have eradicated all online scam compounds https://t.co/sQoV3rKLZJ
- Aug 28, 20265.7x their median
Nepal lake breaks banks, water level rising, district official says https://t.co/KdQY9fsM3F
- Aug 28, 20265.0x their median
OPINION: China is watching America run out of missiles Middle East conflict exposes limits of Washington's ability to defend two theaters https://t.co/sV04hcv2X8
- Aug 27, 20265.0x their median
WATCH & READ: Aftermath of Himalayan flooding Click here to read the full story: https://t.co/XN3bxUXIy5 https://t.co/DL5rsdS4j5
- Aug 28, 20264.3x their median
Vietnam seeks deeper FIFA ties on embattled Infantino's visit https://t.co/VSmHbI1xGW
- Aug 28, 20263.7x their median
Nepal flood catastrophe hints at Himalayas' warmer future https://t.co/wMNSTcufbd
- Aug 28, 20263.3x their median
Japan reveals $96bn yen-buying intervention in July-August https://t.co/FdbvX7FBSV
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 3 interactions against 482K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% of 3,899 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 3.0K times each, and 0.101% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.615% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 8% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 101 interactions, about 34x 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 39 original posts from the last 30 days against 482,179 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 37,701 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 6% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 @NikkeiAsia post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.37 posts per day across the measured window.