Shekhar Gupta engagement report
@ShekharGupta - 2.5M followers on X
Measured over 136 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 52 interactions against 2.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 136 original posts, its engagement rate beats 25% of 3,758 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 17K times each, and 0.31% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.663% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 136 posts sampled, 16% carry an image or video and 78% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.8K interactions, about 111x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #50wordedit, #theprintpolitics, #cuttheclutter.
Measured over 136 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026. Recurring tags: #50wordedit, #theprintpolitics, #cuttheclutter.
Compared with accounts its own size
Shekhar Gupta's engagement rate beats 25% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 28% 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 0.002%, Shekhar Gupta sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 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 | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 16:00 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 18, 2026111x their median
#HafizSaeed’s Muridke headquarters was hit by woman fighter pilot during Op #Sindoor She was flying a Su 30 MKI which fires both Rampage and BrahMos air-to-ground missiles, used during the 87-hour conflict. https://t.co/wIyM22kHBd
- Aug 29, 202664x their median
Pakistan's most embarrassing secret is internationalised…. Now the cricketing world is looking out for Imran Khan… #NationalInterest for the week https://t.co/jC8dmLngoY
- Aug 19, 202643x their median
We remain so obsessed with cricket we risk overlooking the hockey equation. India’s 5-3 in Amstelveen completes a decade of complete hockey domination over Pakistan. Undefeated, with 21 games won and two draws. A better way to understand this is the total goals scored for and against in these 23 games. India scored 92 against Pakistan’s 33. We’ve seen many tennis score wins, 7-1 in FIH Pro League, 10-2 in Hangzhou (2023) Asian Games, 6-1 and 7-1 in FIH World League, London (2017). And of course the 5-3 at Amstelveen.
- Aug 15, 202633x their median
Please note that the name of the officer who assisted the Prime Minister in hoisting the national flag is Capt Ritika Khareta. Capt Sonia Singh Chauhan was supposed to do it but got changed at the last minute https://t.co/N3Dmwy56Ex
- Aug 19, 202622x their median
The BMC GB cleared the proposal to change the reservation of the iconic Neville D’Souza ⚽️ ground in Bandra to a convention & exhibition centre. Obviously BMC folks have never played anything in their life & dont want our kids also to play… What a future we have!! SLOW CLAP!! https://t.co/x7Y4TSInf5
- Aug 15, 202616x their median
Gen Vaidya won 2 MahaVir Chakras, fell to assassins’ bullets 40 yrs ago this week. India forgot a great soldier… How callous was his security, how convenient our memory… #NationalInterest for the Independence Day week.. https://t.co/vDmbHuhe9K
- Aug 6, 202615x their median
Our #50WordEdit on the new Air India CEO https://t.co/XbfqCIvlsE
- Aug 25, 20269.0x their median
Shabash… full marks for consistency… And an idea: why not declare wherever the “divine” being chooses as his abode to be a central jail…. Let’s be done with this charade.. Rape convict Ram Rahim out of jail again on 21-day furlough. 3rd release this year, 17th in 9 yrs Sushil Manav @sushilmanav reports https://t.co/C5Bm9AeGzb
- Aug 16, 20268.9x their median
Himalayan monopoly might finally have a challenger. Andhra farmer K Venkata Ramana Reddy grew 3+ tonnes of juicy apples in Anantapur’s extreme 46°C heat using Israeli KLD desert technology. #ThePrintGroundReport by @DeepikaAmirapu https://t.co/cR3Hx5BeLn
- Aug 15, 20268.2x their median
Four months before this graveside sobbing , Jinnah got a famous letter from his wife: “Try and remember me as the flower you plucked and not the flower you tread upon.” No howling and screaming then. Then, she died of a morphine overdose. And like so many men, he performed. https://t.co/adOLQlr4km
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 52 interactions against 2.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 136 original posts, its engagement rate beats 25% of 3,758 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 17K times each, and 0.31% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.663% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 136 posts sampled, 16% carry an image or video and 78% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.8K interactions, about 111x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #50wordedit, #theprintpolitics, #cuttheclutter.
- What is Shekhar Gupta's engagement rate on X?
- Shekhar Gupta (@ShekharGupta) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 136 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,526,758 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, Shekhar Gupta sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 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 @ShekharGupta have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 25% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 @ShekharGupta post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 5.47 posts per day across the measured window.