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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

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.003%
of 483K followers
Per impression
0.188%
6.9K views on a typical post
Reach
1.43%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
13
interactions (median)
Saved
0.014%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.33/day
active 17% of days
Peak time
07:00 UTC
Tuesday

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%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.436%
p902.10%
p99160.2%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,214 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,785 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.436%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.2%

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.

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: 07:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 07:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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
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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%234K
Monday0%294K
Tuesday-3%288K
Wednesday-1%253K
Thursday-2%247K
Friday-3%256K
Saturday+3%230K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

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  • Aug 27, 202628x their median

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  • May 17, 202426x their median

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  • Aug 27, 202617x their median

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  • Aug 28, 202612x their median

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  • Aug 27, 20265.9x their median

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  • 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

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    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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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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.

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