TED Talks engagement report
@TEDTalks - 10M followers on X
Measured over 3 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 3 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.
A typical post picks up 97 interactions against 10M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Posts are seen about 165K times each, and 0.059% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.63% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.17 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 3 posts sampled, 67% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 375x its own typical post. Only 3 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
Measured over 3 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.001%, TED Talks sits below 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 14:00 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% | 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
- May 12, 2026375x their median
MY TED TALK IS OUT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The link is in my bio to watch it. I hope you guys love it. Thank you all for bringing me here and thank you @TEDTalks for everything. https://t.co/fOW8mVpEv3
- May 12, 202687x their median
Marmosets, foxes, a cow called Winnie the Moo and more — meet the online superstars bringing animal education to life. Hear how conservationist @MayaHiga is sharing wildlife with classrooms and living rooms worldwide: https://t.co/p56dW8guyM https://t.co/lVYkXlirW0
- Jun 10, 202618x their median
My interview from TED with @kcoleman and @audreyt just went live! Tons of gold in here: -why we stuck with crazy principles like not having an override button -how AI and humans collaborate to write better/more notes than either on their own -how much impact community notes are making -why our algorithm is smarter than regular upvoting/downvoting -new ideas for finding common ground on social media https://t.co/No3xbHX8u4
- Apr 17, 202615x their median
“The lobster is loose, and it’s not going back into the tank,” says @openclaw founder @steipete. In this brand new talk from #TED2026 he shares why AI agents — built by you — are the future: https://t.co/GnR6fTeRKw https://t.co/W6gywZ7uYh
- May 4, 202613x their median
"Many experts think that conscious AI is possible. I think they're wrong." Watch neuroscientist @anilkseth's full TED Talk here: https://t.co/ZyWLaBCb7R https://t.co/z928JM8owy
- Jun 8, 20268.0x their median
Happy to share that my Ted Talk from Vencouver in April just went live. In the heat of job anxiety, I believe there is only one thing that makes a job “truly safe.” https://t.co/OcpYPXH9s6
- May 1, 20267.8x their median
1/2 Why AI is unlikely to become conscious – my 2026 @TEDTalks is now online. What do you think about the prospects for 'conscious AI'? https://t.co/OoXFavR3eG https://t.co/kVx8w9DZ2d
- Apr 14, 20267.1x their median
Nobel laureate @Malala Yousafzai thought changing the world would be easy — and then she came face-to-face with reality. In this first talk from #TED2026, she shares 3 lessons she learned about working for the future you want, even when hope feels lost: https://t.co/L1oGTKPXM5 https://t.co/YZCxtl8ytX
- Aug 17, 20265.9x their median
It's finally here! I gave a TED talk in April in Vancouver, and it was released online today. You can watch it here: https://t.co/kNYNzElUvJ I've also adapted it into an article, which was published last week: https://t.co/XojHa75ZpJ https://t.co/HdcT6dQbJi
- Jul 30, 20263.8x their median
iranians are paying the greatest cost of the ongoing war… thousands killed by their own regime in january, thousands more killed in this war, and a new supreme leader just as capable and willing to repress his own people… under even worse economic conditions taking stock six months into this war with @tedtalks
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 97 interactions against 10M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Posts are seen about 165K times each, and 0.059% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.63% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.17 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 3 posts sampled, 67% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 375x its own typical post. Only 3 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
- What is TED Talks's engagement rate on X?
- TED Talks (@TEDTalks) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 3 original posts from the last 30 days against 10,062,930 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, TED Talks sits below 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 @TEDTalks have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @TEDTalks post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.17 posts per day across the measured window.