Stanford University engagement report
@Stanford - 1.0M followers on X
Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 253 interactions against 1.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.024%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 47% 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 17K times each, and 1.47% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.66% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.73 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 32% carry an image or video and 68% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 43K interactions, about 169x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #nobelprize, #researchmatters.
Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026. Recurring tags: #nobelprize, #researchmatters.
Compared with accounts its own size
Stanford University's engagement rate beats 47% 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 58% 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 0.024%, Stanford University sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,694 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 | 0.677% |
| 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 22:00 UTC, and Monday 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 | 32% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 68% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 32% 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.
- 68% 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 324 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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
- Oct 5, 2026169x their median
The most important briefings of the day. Karl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, shares the news of his Nobel Prize with his kids. https://t.co/pTzP1A3pHj
- Oct 5, 202628x their median
Congratulations to Karl Deisseroth, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The @StanfordMed & @StanfordEng professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences is a pioneering developer of optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control the behavior of cells.
- Oct 7, 202615x their median
On Tuesday, the entire Stanford Bioengineering community gathered at the Shriram Center to celebrate Karl Deisseroth, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, before he headed off to teach his undergraduate class: "Principles and Practice of Optogenetics for Optical Control of Biological Tissues." “We love you. We love your work,” said fellow faculty member Russ Altman, who’s known the laureate since 1992. “Wisdom, devotion to your work, seriousness of purpose, sense of humor, and then your status as a father, husband, physician. What a model.”
- Jun 15, 202615x their median
“You have thousands of moments ahead of you. The important thing isn’t to get them all right; it’s to find a way to keep moving forward.” Sundar Pichai, MS ’95, CEO of Google and Alphabet, addressed the Class of 2026 at Stanford’s 135th Commencement ceremony. Watch the full speech at the link: https://t.co/3OFNRonqeH
- Apr 2, 20264.7x their median
Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai), CEO of @Google and Alphabet Inc. and a Stanford alum, will return to the Farm to deliver Stanford’s 135th Commencement address. 🗞️: https://t.co/dNS5maVhIw https://t.co/riLX0P9wSv
- Oct 5, 20268.9x their median
Karl Deisseroth’s first day as a Nobel laureate 📷 The Stanford professor won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discoveries leading to optogenetics. His next move? Getting back to work. “We have a lot of things still to discover, and a lot of people to help.” https://t.co/hf58HT1pR6
- Oct 12, 20265.0x their median
Robert E. Hall, professor of economics and senior fellow at the @HooverInst, emeritus, celebrated with his sons Jonathan and Andy on campus after winning the 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. “This is a wonderful surprise,” he wrote in a statement earlier Monday. “I’ve spent my career trying to understand how the economy works, following interesting questions wherever they led. When I thought I had a new idea, the next step was to find out whether it was actually new, whether it was right, and whether it mattered. I’ve been fortunate to have extraordinary colleagues and coauthors to help me sort that out, and working with them has been the greatest pleasure of my career. Stanford’s Economics Department and the Hoover Institution gave me a dream job: the freedom and time to do the research I wanted to do. The taxpayers of California gave me an excellent education in the public schools and at @UCBerkeley, and the federal government paid for my graduate education at @MIT. I hope they will regard this as a satisfactory return on their investment. I thank my family, especially my wonderful wife and coauthor, Susan, and congratulate Michael Woodford, whose work has taught me a great deal.”
- Oct 12, 20263.5x their median
Congratulations to Robert E. Hall, winner of the 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The professor emeritus of economics and @HooverInst senior fellow emeritus shares the prize with Michael Woodford for developing macroeconomic models built on how households and businesses actually make decisions. Those models have helped governments and central banks time their policies to soften economic shocks. 📸: Patrick Beaudouin
- Mar 11, 2026
Stanford researchers have launched a privacy-focused, open-source platform to study how digital interactions affect physical and mental health. https://t.co/FcZJxr7NbW
- Oct 5, 20262.7x their median
Karl Deisseroth awarded 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine 🔬 The professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences shares the prize with two other researchers for their work in optogenetics. https://t.co/XFv5OWasPi
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 253 interactions against 1.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.024%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 47% 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 17K times each, and 1.47% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.66% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.73 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 32% carry an image or video and 68% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 43K interactions, about 169x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #nobelprize, #researchmatters.
- What is Stanford University's engagement rate on X?
- Stanford University (@Stanford) has an engagement rate of 0.024%, based on the median interactions across 19 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,039,825 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.024%, Stanford University sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,694 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 @Stanford have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 47% 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 @Stanford post?
- Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.73 posts per day across the measured window.