艾未未 Ai Weiwei engagement report
@aiww - 333K followers on X
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 10, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 31 interactions against 333K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 33% 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 10K times each, and 0.308% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.02% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 143 interactions, about 5.1x its own typical post.
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 10, 2026. Recurring tag: #ansa.
Compared with accounts its own size
艾未未 Ai Weiwei's engagement rate beats 33% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 21% 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 0.009%, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,798 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 11:00 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.
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 | 0% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 0% 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.
- 100% 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 80 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below the same accounts' other posts.
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
- Aug 27, 20255.1x their median
老艾兄如悟 写信给你,在一个你能想像的地方,我今日身陷囹圄的厄运,不过是在重演你当年落难的一场人生戏剧而已,而那时,我则充当着你的坚定支持者。记得当时因你被捕而来采访者都在问一个相同的问题:”艾未未和你们高氏兄弟都是我们媒体关注的国际知名艺术家,在我们看来,你们高氏的作品比艾的作品更危险,怎么现在却抓了他,而没有抓你们呢?”这话听起来似乎被抓的应当是我们,而不是你,而我回答他们说:这是很难回答的一个问题,因为中国的现实与政治状况是难以简单说清的,常常是要想说清一个问题,就必须先说清与之相关的另外十个或更多问题,这也就是何以一些关注中国问题的老外专家和许多身在其中的知识分子总是会误把自己的希望当成现实做出误断的原因之所在。具体到老艾和我们谁被该是被抓这个问题,我能猜测的可能性也许是因为他的名气和影响力以及能量都比我们大的多,所采取的艺术方式的社会动员性更强,而我们的作品只不过看着不顺眼、在国内大不能公开展出,无法直接产生太大的社会效应之故吧。我想,我的回答尽管无法解开其困惑,但至少给他们提供了一种理解兄之艺术与何以兄先于我们被抓的可能性。还有一位德媒记者对我说,半月前他去采访艾兄时也给你提出过一个类似令人困惑的问题:你老艾这么折腾,怎么竟至今没事呢?最后他给我说,他采访你之后的半月后,你就被抓了,这也验证了你当时回答他时说的:“我今天安全,并不意味着明天安全”。我当时对他说:“你今天来采访我们,看来,半月十五天之后我们也得 做好被抓的准备了”。其实我说这这话并非仅仅是个玩笑,许多年来,我自知是一直在往监狱的路上走着的。幸运的是直到去年的8月26日才走到目的地。而这种幸运也有某种不幸在里面,因为今日世界与中国状况与十几年前你被抓那会儿相比,可谓“至暗时刻”了,那时如你我此类喜欢直言不讳者还有一定的腾挪转身的缝细,人们也热衷于围观,人权还是一个国际政客愿意拿来说事的话题,这一切因素却另外中国当代艺术还是一个国际热点,这一切因素都决定了你那81天的磨难大戏上演的轰轰烈烈与精采之至。而今天这一切因素却已不存在了,我已坐牢整整一年,尽管仍有若干外媒报道,但与你当年相比则如哑剧一般了。 我之状况想必艾兄已大体知晓,罪名是“侵害英烈名誉荣誉罪“,法定刑期最长三年,以往此类罪者刑期大都在1年之内,而对我的量刑则是顶格三年,其他同类案件被告的三倍或四倍,而其依据的则是2021年新增罪名追究我近二十年前的三件主要旧作,《Miss Mao》、《枪决》、《忏悔》,后两者获罪想必是因为以“古月”为原型创作的文革反思作品,这在法律上是不成立的,故而,我的辩护律师莫少平和其搭档马律师准备在开庭时为我做无罪辩护,并建议请若干知名艺术家和有影响力的艺术批评家、从专业角度做出阐释,予以支持,而艾兄则是当今全球最有影响力的艺术家,故而致信给你,请兄斟酌看有否可能介入支持,若可以,也希望兄可运用你一呼百应之力邀请若干国际艺术大师参与其中,若不便介入,我亦可理解。我的案子开庭在即,具体时间尚不知道,但不会太久。(1)
- Oct 5, 20263.6x their median
Ai Weiwei on AI: "We are losing privacy, and without it we cease to be individuals" https://t.co/qD3c0oTCOu
- Oct 3, 20262.9x their median
Dua Lipa foi ao Porto visitar a sua biblioteca de livros proibidos na Livraria Lello e tirou fotos com os fãs e Ai Weiwei https://t.co/f4IixWmcIr
- Oct 5, 20262.3x their median
Ai Weiwei: "We are losing privacy and without it we stop being individuals" https://t.co/qD3c0oT4YW
- Oct 3, 20262.2x their median
https://t.co/gtVFXhoizP
- Jul 16, 20261.8x their median
Inside Ai Weiwei’s gigantic Manchester art show, including China detention recreation | South China Morning Post https://t.co/YT2xXa0CYc
- Aug 28, 20261.7x their median
https://t.co/jmwY76hey0
- Jul 15, 20261.7x their median
Artist and activist Ai Weiwei on his new book 'On Censorship' : NPR's Book of the Day : NPR https://t.co/Jw4AWAsPdX
- Jul 9, 20261.8x their median
Ai Weiwei will unveil a new public sculpture at Sydney's MCA in September- RUSSH https://t.co/t0EFLqNyNe
- Jul 16, 20261.6x their median
Q&A | ‘We have to bear our memory. Even if it is a nightmare, it should belong to us' - Museums Association https://t.co/3wzjTGmsWu
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 31 interactions against 333K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 33% 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 10K times each, and 0.308% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.02% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 143 interactions, about 5.1x its own typical post.
- What is 艾未未 Ai Weiwei's engagement rate on X?
- 艾未未 Ai Weiwei (@aiww) has an engagement rate of 0.009%, based on the median interactions across 13 original posts from the last 30 days against 332,990 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.009%, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,798 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 @aiww have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 33% 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 @aiww post?
- Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.4 posts per day across the measured window.