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Alvin Foo engagement report

@alvinfoo - 167K followers on X

Measured over 14 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 23, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.017%
of 167K followers
Per impression
1.73%
1.6K views on a typical post
Reach
0.99%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
28
interactions (median)
Saved
0.516%
8 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.33/day
active 7% of days
Peak time
12:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 28 interactions against 167K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 14 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% 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 1.6K times each, and 1.73% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.987% 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, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 14 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 7% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.6K interactions, about 164x its own typical post.

Measured over 14 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 23, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Alvin Foo's engagement rate beats 26% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 57% 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%, Alvin Foo sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,048 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 205,048 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 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 12:00 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: 12:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 12:00 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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link7% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 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.
  • 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 385 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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

  • Sep 20, 2026164x their median

    Probably and possibly one of the best speeches of all time. 😍 Mohammed Qahtani, a Saudi Arabian engineer, won the Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking. In his winning speech, he highlighted the power of words, stating that they can be a source of strength. https://t.co/kW2LX6SZMu

    3.7K8334560218K viewsView on X
  • Sep 20, 2026164x their median

    muse is going NATIONWIDE to a television near you this is our first @muse ad ever, going live this weekend! we hope you like it while watching the big game(s)! big ups to @joshginsberg, denise, and the whole meta marketing team ❤️ https://t.co/1zMUVgdKna

    4.0K2132631381.4M viewsView on X
  • Sep 18, 2026110x their median

    Jim Rohn : Work harder on yourself than your job. https://t.co/EVCxcsBkQb

    2.4K63882177K viewsView on X
  • Sep 19, 202651x their median

    Maye Musk is a boss mom and author who raised THREE kids on her own…but that doesn’t mean they always listened! She told a story about Elon seeking advice post-PayPal. “…he said to me, 'Should I do electric cars, or rockets, or solar energy?' And I say, 'You've just worked so hard; just do one.' So, you see, he doesn't listen to me.” Well, Elon may not have heeded her advice, but it sounds like Mom got the last word on this one... Source: Fox News @mayemusk / Writer: Marie

    1.3K138355101K viewsView on X
  • Jul 27, 202633x their median

    Huawei Built a European Palace for 35,000 Researchers, Then Spent $28 Billion on R&D in a Single Year I walked into what looked like a European palace. Marble floors. Crystal chandeliers. Gilded railings. Classical statues. Vaulted ceilings that belong in a ministry building in Vienna or Paris. Then the giant screen lit up with the Huawei logo. This is not a government building.
This is Huawei’s Shanghai research campus. A self-contained research city with lakes, landscaped grounds, modern laboratory blocks, elevated walkways, and its own internal light-rail system. Designed for 35,000 researchers. Current density is already extreme: roughly 80% hold a master’s degree or higher. About 10% are PhDs. Throw a stone and you hit advanced technical talent. In 2025, Huawei generated CNY 880.9 billion in revenue. 
It spent CNY 192.3 billion on R&D, 21.8% of total revenue, roughly US$27.9 billion. That single-year R&D outlay exceeds the entire GDP of multiple countries with larger populations. 
Total employees: ~213,000.
R&D headcount: 114,000 (53.7% of the workforce). Most companies and most nations still treat research as a residual. Huawei treats it as the core operating expense. The result is not just beautiful architecture. It is sustained technological capacity under pressure. This is the case study that matters. Resource allocation at this intensity, sustained for more than a decade, produces outcomes that incremental budgets and short-term political cycles cannot match. Have you visited a corporate campus that genuinely changed how you think about what’s possible? Video produced and edited by Arianne, my beloved daughter 😍

    678196431967K viewsView on X
  • Sep 20, 202622x their median

    This is Keanu Reeves. He was abandoned by his father at 3 years old and grew up with 3 different stepfathers. He is dyslexic. His dream of becoming a hockey player was shattered by a serious accident. His daughter died at birth. His wife died in a car accident. His best friend, River Phoenix, died of an overdose. His sister battled leukemia. No bodyguards, no luxury houses. Keanu lives in an ordinary apartment and likes wandering around town and often seen riding a subway in NYC. When he was filming the movie "The Lake House," he overheard the conversation of two costume assistants, one crying as he would lose his house if he did not pay $20,000 - On the same day, Keanu deposited the necessary amount in his bank account. In his career, he has donated large sums to hospitals including $75 million of his earnings from "The Matrix" to charities. In 2010, on his birthday, Keanu walked into a bakery & bought a brioche with a single candle, ate it in front of the bakery, and offered coffee to people who stopped to talk to him. In 1997 some paparazzi found him walking one morning in the company of a homeless man in Los Angeles, listening to him and sharing his life for a few hours. In life, sometimes the ones most broken from inside are the ones most willing to help others. This man could buy everything, and instead every day he gets up and chooses one thing that cannot be bought: to be real.

    537608528K viewsView on X
  • Sep 18, 202620x their median

    The importance of staying true to your roots! The legendary forundring father of Singapore - Lee Kuan Yew - is spot on! “I may speak the English Language better than the Chinese language, but I’ll never be an Englishman, not in a thousand generations.” https://t.co/jSx3dNSbv5

    4261279930K viewsView on X
  • Sep 18, 202619x their median

    “This idea that if we regulate AI, that China will win, is not true. And the way that we know that is because China regulates AI. They have the most regulation of their AI than any country in the world. And they're moving very, very fast. They're almost at where we are or maybe going to beat us. And they have a ton of regulation.” “So the tech bros in the U.S. that say if we regulate AI, the Chinese going to win - that’s a self-serving argument. That isn't true. But at the same time, we have to understand that Chinese regulation of AI is meant to protect the Chinese Communist Party. When we talk about regulation of AI, we're talking about protecting our privacy, our citizens, our data, our democracy. They don't care about that in China. They don't have that.”

    2601091312055K viewsView on X
  • Sep 19, 202614x their median

    Jim Rohn’s promise still holds: “If you will change, everything will change for you.” https://t.co/1PEinfzThm

    323700010K viewsView on X
  • Oct 22, 202613x their median

    The biggest industrial irony in one photo. Left: Oliver Blume, CEO of VW. Right: Wan Gang, the man China calls the "Father of EVs." In the 90s, Wan spent 11 years as an engineer at Audi. In 2000, he went back to Beijing and told the State Council: "We will never catch Germany on ICE. So let's change the game.” He became Minister of Science and Technology and architected China's entire EV push. Result in Q3 2025: VW China sales: -38.5% to 405k cars The biggest drop since Covid. The student didn't just beat the teacher, he rewrote the whole exam. Credit : Philipp Raasch

    28958101220K 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 28 interactions against 167K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 14 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% 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 1.6K times each, and 1.73% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.987% 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, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 14 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 7% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.6K interactions, about 164x its own typical post.

What is Alvin Foo's engagement rate on X?
Alvin Foo (@alvinfoo) has an engagement rate of 0.017%, based on the median interactions across 14 original posts from the last 30 days against 166,944 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.017%, Alvin Foo sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,048 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 @alvinfoo have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 26% 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 @alvinfoo post?
Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.

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