TED-Ed engagement report
@TED_ED - 515K followers on X
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 7 interactions against 515K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% of 3,774 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 3.8K times each, and 0.184% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.738% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 15% carry an image or video and 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 27 interactions, about 3.9x its own typical post.
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
TED-Ed's engagement rate beats 11% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 15% 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%, TED-Ed sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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 15:00 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 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% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 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% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 98K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 18, 20263.9x their median
"It's not happiness that makes us grateful; it's gratefulness that makes us happy." https://t.co/ggI13MZgue
- Aug 22, 20263.3x their median
How can you preserve your mind in a society where free will, self-expression, and curiosity are under fire? The dystopian classic "Fahrenheit 451" grapples with this question: https://t.co/9X6HFBY7GP
- Aug 25, 20262.9x their median
Losing a loved one can be one of the most traumatic experiences of a person’s life. But is it possible for the powerful feelings that accompany grief to endanger your health? Dig into broken heart syndrome, and find out how grief can affect your body: https://t.co/bbLbOBex9C
- Aug 21, 20262.9x their median
The professor has driven your DeLorean back to the past to fix issues with the spacetime continuum. Can you return home in time to prevent the collapse of the universe? https://t.co/6aa4V21REp
- Aug 26, 20262.3x their median
How do you show compassion to others? https://t.co/QIWCsluj8g
- Aug 20, 20262.3x their median
When is forgetting normal, and when is it not? https://t.co/Swmg6jmIf4
- Aug 15, 20262.1x their median
What would happen if everyone on Earth jumped at the same time? https://t.co/c2MMsGLglK
- Aug 25, 20262.0x their median
"Walking is the single most powerful thing that a woman can do for her health." GirlTrek is taking a page from Septima Clark's playbook to launch a health revolution in the US — and get women walking for justice: https://t.co/LyrWS80CVq
- Aug 22, 20261.9x their median
What causes the phases of the moon? https://t.co/A53UopGevg
- Aug 24, 20261.7x their median
“Math is one of the most beautiful, powerful, empowering things […] And it should only make your life better. Instead, we found a way to use it to make everyone’s life worse.” The solution? Get kids playing with math: https://t.co/G1uYlWQCBb
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 7 interactions against 515K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% of 3,774 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 3.8K times each, and 0.184% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.738% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 15% carry an image or video and 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 27 interactions, about 3.9x its own typical post.
- What is TED-Ed's engagement rate on X?
- TED-Ed (@TED_ED) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 39 original posts from the last 30 days against 515,340 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, TED-Ed sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 @TED_ED have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 11% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter 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 @TED_ED post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.