Handelsblatt engagement report
@handelsblatt - 483K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 13 interactions against 483K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 3,829 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 6.9K times each, and 0.188% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.43% 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 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.0K interactions, about 77x its own typical post.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Handelsblatt's engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 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 15% 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 0.003%, Handelsblatt sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,214 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.436% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.2% |
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 07:00 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 71K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 80K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 88K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 103K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 100K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 86K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 81K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 234K |
| Monday | 0% | 294K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 288K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 247K |
| Friday | -3% | 256K |
| Saturday | +3% | 230K |
Best tweets
- Aug 26, 202677x their median
In den USA ist die Vergabe eines Lehrauftrags an ehemalige Regierungsvertreter ein normaler Vorgang. Die deutsche Aufregung zeigt, dass es dabei nur um Hass und Hetze geht. https://t.co/c8HnRpaZiD
- Aug 27, 202628x their median
In den USA ist die Vergabe eines Lehrauftrags an ehemalige Regierungsvertreter ein normaler Vorgang. Die deutsche Aufregung zeigt, dass es dabei nur um Hass und Hetze geht. https://t.co/zGay1R2Ye9
- May 17, 202426x their median
In letzter Zeit gelangen bei unterschiedlichen Medien vermehrt Fake-Titelseiten in Umlauf. Auch wir beim Handelsblatt sind davon betroffen. Daher ein Hinweis in eigener Sache: Das Cover unserer aktuellen Ausgabe finden Sie immer hier https://t.co/SGFzQUNFQg
- Aug 27, 202617x their median
In den USA ist die Vergabe eines Lehrauftrags an ehemalige Regierungsvertreter ein normaler Vorgang. Die deutsche Aufregung zeigt, dass es dabei nur um Hass und Hetze geht. https://t.co/Hp58PJgpo5
- Aug 28, 202612x their median
Der Kanzler bekommt im Fernsehen eine Lektion, wie seine Politik bei der Bevölkerung ankommt. Und wirkt im Streitgespräch mit den Bürgern zuweilen schmallippig. https://t.co/5eesyN2LfW
- Aug 27, 20265.9x their median
Nach viel Kritik rückt Vizekanzler Klingbeil von dem Plan ab, auch Zero-Getränke mit einer Zuckersteuer zu belegen – und gibt den eigenen Leuten die Schuld. Intern wächst der Ärger. https://t.co/6Id5VY9bIO
- Aug 25, 20263.5x their median
Mit der Zuckersteuer wollte die Bundesregierung eigentlich die Ausgaben im Gesundheitssystem gegenfinanzieren. Doch die Pläne des Finanzministeriums gehen noch deutlich weiter. https://t.co/3xEsiNcYQZ
- Aug 28, 20263.3x their median
Nach sieben Jahren wirtschaftlichem Stillstand gibt es wenig zu verteilen. Das erklärt der Kanzler im Fernsehen den Bürgern. Es wirkt kühl und ist unbequem, könnte aber seine Stärke sein. https://t.co/st0hBUYftA
- Aug 26, 20263.3x their median
Erst überschuldet, dann pleite: Die hohe Inflation macht immer mehr Privathaushalten zu schaffen. Die Lage könnte sich noch verschärfen. Die Bundesregierung sieht die Entwicklung mit Sorge. https://t.co/TiSPJyjJN9
- Aug 27, 20262.0x their median
Die KI-Umbrüche am Arbeitsmarkt treffen junge Menschen massiv, sagt Politikwissenschaftler Mathias Albert. Er warnt vor einer politischen Zeitbombe – und noch mehr Aufwind für die AfD. https://t.co/PAMSQgrWHR
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 13 interactions against 483K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 3,829 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 6.9K times each, and 0.188% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.43% 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 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.0K interactions, about 77x its own typical post.
- What is Handelsblatt's engagement rate on X?
- Handelsblatt (@handelsblatt) has an engagement rate of 0.003%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 483,207 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.003%, Handelsblatt sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,214 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 @handelsblatt have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size 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 @handelsblatt post?
- Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.