The Paperclip engagement report
@Paperclip_In - 86K followers on X
Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 83 interactions against 86K followers, an engagement rate of 0.096%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 51% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 5.0K times each, and 1.66% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.77% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 44% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.2K interactions, about 14x its own typical post.
Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 30, 2026. Recurring tag: #lumen.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Paperclip's engagement rate beats 51% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 56% 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 0.096%, The Paperclip sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,880 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
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 02:00 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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 100% 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.
- 0% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 262 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
- Sep 28, 202614x their median
In 1950, Hyderabad's former Prime Minister vanished from house arrest and turned up in Karachi. Nobody could work out how he'd done it, until a bearded CID officer the press called the "Sherlock Holmes of Hyderabad" took the case. Thread 1/24 https://t.co/gd6TaW9nae
- Aug 26, 20267.9x their median
Somewhere around 1930, on a sandy village road in Alappuzha, a woman rode a British motorcycle alone, sari hitched at her waist, while a crowd gathered on the roadside just to jeer. They called her Bullet Narayani. For almost a century afterward, everyone forgot her. 1/16 https://t.co/K6DVmlnAz2
- Sep 17, 20266.5x their median
Humlog, the iconic Doordarshan TV serial, was a masterclass in storytelling that captured the essence of Indian middle-class life in the 1980s. However it traces its origin to the most unlikely inspiration: a sewing machine revolution that rocked Peru. Thread. 1/21 https://t.co/9qd6TwsTzN
- Aug 18, 20263.4x their median
Months before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the American Olympic swim team had a calm Bengali man quietly watching their practice as a guest advisor. The Americans were charmed by his presence. But who was he? 1/20 https://t.co/oQsfc1rY2z
- Sep 10, 20262.8x their median
The recent news on Old Monk might surprise you: India's most famous rum may not legally be rum. Long before Old Monk, though, India had a rum with an even stranger history that sparked a rebellion in Australia and brought down a government. 1/16 https://t.co/i9qat0eijB
- Aug 28, 20262.7x their median
Once upon a time in colonial Madras, a young medical student walked into class wearing a swadeshi surgical apron made of hand-spun khadi, the cloth Gandhi had turned into a symbol of resistance to British goods. Years later, he gave the world chemotherapy. Thread. 1/20 https://t.co/P7oV6HUiTX
- Sep 24, 20261.9x their median
Yesterday was one of those rare days when journalism in India gave you hope. There are not many journalists left we can trust. But once, there was someone so trusted, villagers from remote corners wrote to him about everything from world affairs to kitchen remedies. Thread 1/22 https://t.co/Oc86te3f1s
- Aug 20, 20261.8x their median
In the 1930s, as a Bengal island was devastated by floods and pushed to the brink of starvation, an unexpected saviour tore through the sky. Not any divine intervention, but a rocket. Long before ISRO, the bizarre story of Indian rockets will blow your mind. Thread. 1/16 https://t.co/fu2b3MNMcH
- Aug 21, 20261.8x their median
You may know Susanna Anna-Marie Johannes from 7 Khoon Maaf. But her story began long before the film—a few centuries ago, in Bengal. In 2021, we followed the trail down a narrow lane off GT Road—and stood before the real Susanna’s tomb. A Thread. 1/26 https://t.co/cB6CWoHM4O
- Aug 23, 20261.7x their median
In 1945, an American comic book published a story about a woman leading armed tribesmen against an invading army, and called her the Jungle Queen. It read like pulp fiction—except the woman, the war, and the story were all real. It was a true story from our own Nagaland. 1/19 https://t.co/XXmGseJfjS
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 83 interactions against 86K followers, an engagement rate of 0.096%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 51% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 5.0K times each, and 1.66% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.77% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 44% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.2K interactions, about 14x its own typical post.
- What is The Paperclip's engagement rate on X?
- The Paperclip (@Paperclip_In) has an engagement rate of 0.096%, based on the median interactions across 9 original posts from the last 30 days against 86,420 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.096%, The Paperclip sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,880 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 @Paperclip_In have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 51% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @Paperclip_In post?
- Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.57 posts per day across the measured window.