Vishal Bhargava engagement report
@VishalBhargava5 - 103K followers on X
Measured over 42 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 15, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 384 interactions against 103K followers, an engagement rate of 0.375%. Measured over 42 original posts, its engagement rate beats 74% of 21,185 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 27K times each, and 1.40% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 26.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 42 posts sampled, 74% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 7% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.1K interactions, about 13x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #breaking, #supremecourt, #pune.
Measured over 42 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 15, 2026. Recurring tags: #breaking, #supremecourt, #pune.
Compared with accounts its own size
Vishal Bhargava's engagement rate beats 74% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 50% 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 0.375%, Vishal Bhargava sits above the 50th percentile of the 213,004 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.147% to 0.698%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.147% |
| 75th percentile | 0.698% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 82.8% |
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 05:00 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 | 74% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 7% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 74% 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.
- 7% 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 273 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 29, 202613x their median
I am seeing a concerted campaign against glass skyscrapers in India through multi channel targeting of different groups in India - particularly environmentalists and animal lovers. This seems to be prima-facie a psyop campaign seeded to disrupt India's building of tall, cost effective glass skyscrapers increasing floor space and productivity of cities rapidly. It seems like a psyop based economic warfare using Indians themselves once again. India is currently the no.1 country building the most sky scrapers, reflecting not just the fast growing economy and a need for space, but enabling more economic activity and growth. It would be prudent for the GoI to take note before this becomes another organic widespread attitude among citizens of the country to hate these buildings for different things, starting protests, and self-sabotaging our own growth suddenly. I am really astounded at all the ways the adversary tries to program Indians and use them against India's rise. https://t.co/5FY2muNJo1
- Oct 12, 20267.6x their median
Interesting: 4 of Mumbai's biggest builders complain against a top government officer for making excessive bribe demands. Officer wants luxury apartments given at a deep discount. Builders however afraid that their approvals will stall if they don't oblige. https://t.co/EqMsiRfZ0t
- Oct 6, 20267.1x their median
Unsold Homes in India MMR: 2.6 lakh Pune: 1.16 lakh Hyderabad: 1.14 lakh Bangalore: 0.91 lakh Chennai: 0.82 lakh NCR: 0.58 lakh Source: Liases Foras
- Sep 27, 20265.5x their median
The number of ready projects in Mumbai with unsold homes is easily at an unprecedented level. Developers have completed the building with the hope that it now has to get sold. New uncharted territory.
- Oct 9, 20265.3x their median
The Indian who truly deserves an airport named after him: JRD Tata https://t.co/UK3pLNuRB5
- Sep 30, 20264.2x their median
Why Pune gets terrible roads !! https://t.co/qnxx8ui3dn
- Oct 2, 20263.2x their median
A relative from America was visiting Mumbai. Seeing the blocks of skyscrapers next to each other he remarked “Mumbai feels like Hong Kong.” https://t.co/02Q4z0f3qw
- Oct 5, 20262.3x their median
Spain: Large-scale protests against the housing crisis Short-term rentals like Airbnb, Fund purchases & immigration has made rents double in the past decade. The honeymoon for most of Europe is over. It's about time. They have taken easy times for granted for too long. https://t.co/hhlmCZNTVE
- Oct 6, 20262.2x their median
Of all the projects in India the one that I hope revives soon is Lavasa. A privately built hill city close to Pune. It was visionary for its time but its concept is relevant than ever for India. It got caught in the political cross-fire but I reckon history will be kind to it. https://t.co/qO39Tu6GNn
- Oct 1, 20262.0x their median
Stock Market guys have disproportionate power in setting the narrative. I genuinely wished they would stop crying over govt moves on LTCG/STCG - and actually push govt to do changes that can actually improve Indian businesses structurally.
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 384 interactions against 103K followers, an engagement rate of 0.375%. Measured over 42 original posts, its engagement rate beats 74% of 21,185 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 27K times each, and 1.40% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 26.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 42 posts sampled, 74% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 7% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.1K interactions, about 13x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #breaking, #supremecourt, #pune.
- What is Vishal Bhargava's engagement rate on X?
- Vishal Bhargava (@VishalBhargava5) has an engagement rate of 0.375%, based on the median interactions across 42 original posts from the last 30 days against 102,680 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.375%, Vishal Bhargava sits above the 50th percentile of the 213,004 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 @VishalBhargava5 have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 74% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 @VishalBhargava5 post?
- Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.27 posts per day across the measured window.