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University of Washington engagement report

@UW - 178K followers on X

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 17, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.017%
of 178K followers
Per impression
0.986%
3.0K views on a typical post
Reach
1.71%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
30
interactions (median)
Saved
0.033%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.77/day
active 43% of days
Peak time
18:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 30 interactions against 178K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% 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 3.0K times each, and 0.986% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.71% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.77 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 35% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.9K interactions, about 123x its own typical post.

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 17, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

University of Washington's engagement rate beats 30% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 42% 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 0.017%, University of Washington sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,374 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,374 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,897 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 percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
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 18:00 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.

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: 18:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 18:00 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video96% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link35% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 96% 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.
  • 35% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 214 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

  • Jul 18, 2026123x their median

    Our newest honorary doctorate: Dr. Jimothy πŸŽ“ https://t.co/EWsfDwhqKF

    9.1K6796668176K viewsView on X
  • Jun 8, 202620x their median

    congrats on graduating Lily thank uuuuu for being my handler πŸ’œπŸΎ https://t.co/vABVcCUuye

    1.6K265445K viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 202649x their median

    University of Washington alum Jean Smart made Emmys history tonight with her fifth consecutive win for β€œHacks” becoming the first person to win an Emmy for every season of a series. Her eighth Emmy also ties the record for most ever won by a performer. Bow down, indeed.πŸ’œπŸ† https://t.co/JtndPcV6Vz

    1.4K8781428K viewsView on X
  • Jul 20, 202629x their median

    Nothing beats a summer sunset. https://t.co/o3g8dmJ0V1

    7817611314K viewsView on X
  • Sep 16, 202627x their median

    The University of Washington has been recognized as the 8th-best public university in the U.S. in Forbes’ Top 25 Public Colleges for 2027! Forbes evaluates colleges based on factors including graduation rates, student debt, alumni salaries, and alumni achievements. https://t.co/aHUBNAWpn8

    68396261431K viewsView on X
  • Jun 18, 202610x their median

    The University of Washington has been recognized as the 12th best university β€” and 3rd among public schools β€” in the world by U.S. News and World Report! Read more: https://t.co/CPBibAxDc7 https://t.co/7C3gp5g62T

    677105152259K viewsView on X
  • Jul 6, 20269.8x their median

    Usually Dubs is all about football. Today? It's fΓΊtbol. βš½οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ We're proud to be a World Cup 2026 Host City Sponsor and excited to have the world's eyes on Seattle! Here's to one more incredible match in Seattle! Go Team USA! https://t.co/Mp0cf8g0Zh

    700719414K viewsView on X
  • Sep 22, 202622x their median

    Happy first day of Fall! 🀩🍁 https://t.co/s0wNreyGKf

    5775720412K viewsView on X
  • Oct 6, 202620x their median

    Fall looks good on us. πŸπŸ”οΈπŸ‚ https://t.co/N5x5EYP3Wl

    562415411K viewsView on X
  • Jun 13, 20267.3x their median

    Greatest setting in the country for graduation. πŸŽ“πŸ’œπŸΎ https://t.co/ZY2J6GlmhJ

    5344210123K 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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 30 interactions against 178K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% 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 3.0K times each, and 0.986% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.71% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.77 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 35% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.9K interactions, about 123x its own typical post.

What is University of Washington's engagement rate on X?
University of Washington (@UW) has an engagement rate of 0.017%, based on the median interactions across 23 original posts from the last 30 days against 178,058 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.017%, University of Washington sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,374 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 @UW have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 30% 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 @UW post?
Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.77 posts per day across the measured window.

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