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University of Michigan engagement report

@UMich - 288K followers on X

Measured over 20 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 21, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.021%
of 288K followers
Per impression
0.82%
7.4K views on a typical post
Reach
2.56%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
60
interactions (median)
Saved
0.034%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.87/day
active 77% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 60 interactions against 288K followers, an engagement rate of 0.021%. Measured over 20 original posts, its engagement rate beats 33% of 20,183 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 7.4K times each, and 0.82% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.56% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.87 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 20 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 70% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.4K interactions, about 107x its own typical post.

Measured over 20 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 21, 2026. Recurring tag: #goblue.

Compared with accounts its own size

University of Michigan's engagement rate beats 33% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 38% 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 0.021%, University of Michigan sits above the 10th percentile of the 203,408 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.142%
p750.675%
p902.54%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 203,408 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,895 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.142%
75th percentile0.675%
90th percentile2.54%
99th percentile82.4%

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 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 15:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 15:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link70% 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.
  • 70% 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 199 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 19, 2026107x their median

    Hail to the Victors! 〽️ https://t.co/m10SU2AzIf

    5.2K96411712098K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 202620x their median

    Tonight. The Big House. @UMichFootball. 🏈 #GoBlue https://t.co/AsMWUHMPsL

    1.0K10034521K viewsView on X
  • Oct 6, 202611x their median

    A record-breaking fall in A2! 〽️ U-M welcomed 54,181 students this term, our largest enrollment ever. From all 50 states and dozens of countries around the globe, welcome home, Wolverines! https://t.co/N3iMb0Jtvd https://t.co/vYZ2ARncuA

    59440341031K viewsView on X
  • Sep 25, 20267.7x their median

    Bring on the 'ber months πŸ‚ https://t.co/9vq79byFFC

    4003920212K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 20267.5x their median

    This morning, U-M’s four ROTC programs took shifts standing guard at the Diag flagpole to honor those who lost their lives 25 years ago on September 11, 2001. #NeverForget https://t.co/ILAEkXvV5L

    3933124110K viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 20266.9x their median

    September in A2 ☺️ https://t.co/ZJglAZm97f

    372311209.8K viewsView on X
  • Sep 22, 20266.3x their median

    Officially fall! πŸ‚ https://t.co/ZYKBuNno8c

    339291109.9K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 20266.2x their median

    Hey, new Wolverines! πŸ‘‹ #GoBlue https://t.co/xjRJjbsfVY

    3401810112K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20266.1x their median

    Welcome to Wolverine Village! 🏘️ Shaped directly from student input, the new community is comprised of five residence halls that share a dining hall and additional common spaces. https://t.co/WeG0yMioR7 https://t.co/W9eJTQEZ8v

    320231510172K viewsView on X
  • Oct 11, 20266.0x their median

    Fall in Michigan πŸ‚ https://t.co/HqTbvP2udq

    319271329.7K viewsView on X

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

#goblue

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 60 interactions against 288K followers, an engagement rate of 0.021%. Measured over 20 original posts, its engagement rate beats 33% of 20,183 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 7.4K times each, and 0.82% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.56% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.87 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 20 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 70% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.4K interactions, about 107x its own typical post.

What is University of Michigan's engagement rate on X?
University of Michigan (@UMich) has an engagement rate of 0.021%, based on the median interactions across 20 original posts from the last 30 days against 288,445 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.021%, University of Michigan sits above the 10th percentile of the 203,408 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 @UMich have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 33% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 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 @UMich post?
Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.87 posts per day across the measured window.

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