M.J. Akbar engagement report
@mjakbar - 123K followers on X
Measured over 6 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 4, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 6 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.
A typical post picks up 22 interactions against 123K followers, an engagement rate of 0.018%. Posts are seen about 3.6K times each, and 0.619% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.95% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.37 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 6 posts sampled, 33% carry an image or video and 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.5K interactions, about 66x its own typical post. Only 6 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
Measured over 6 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 4, 2026. Recurring tag: #watch.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.018%, M.J. Akbar sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,374 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 Friday 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 | 33% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 67% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 33% 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.
- 67% 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 561 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 19, 202666x their median
#WATCH | Roorkee, Uttarakhand: At the IIT Roorkee Convocation, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval says, "I was a young IPS officer, new to the intelligence profession. I was in my 20s, and I was posted as in charge of intelligence in Sikkim. That was not a part of India at that time. It was becoming part of India. I was part of that process where the merger was taking place. But my responsibility also included looking after the border areas and collecting intelligence about the movement of the PLA, activities of the Chinese Army... So, once, we had an intelligence mission in the border area, and about eight days later, they had to return. So, five days went by, then ten days went by, then perhaps 15 days went by. For me, it was a matter of very great concern, not only professionally but also on the human side, that so many people—we don't know whether they are dead or alive, and what has happened to them. We got no reports of any avalanche or anything. It was a matter of deep worry and concern. But I got a telephone call from the headquarters, and my boss told me, "Have you sent some people across?" I said, "I do not know. They must be coming. They should have come in five or six days, but now it is about ten or eleven days." He said, "They are in Chinese custody now." They were caught by the Chinese and interrogated. Anyway, the Chinese returned them, probably after some talks or negotiations, or a deal must have been struck. So, they returned totally shattered, in shambles. And an inquiry was started. I knew that this was the end of my career. I was still in my twenties, and I had to start a new career. I saw the incident as something very unprofessional. Anyway, the inquiry was over. I wasn't found at fault. Probably, I had done everything right. The sketches and the maps that were given to us by the headquarters had some defects and mistakes in them. That is how it happened..."
- Jun 10, 202644x their median
PM Modi will be remembered for the liberation of India from hunger through PM Garib Kalyan and the massive tech and financial empowerment of the historically deprived through visionary policies like Jandhan which laid the foundations of Viksit Bharat and another Renaissance
- Jun 10, 202627x their median
India has always been known as the land south of the mountains. Today it has also become the land north of the waters. The ANC naval base has become a powerful guardian of our interests on Malacca. Our southern security frontier stretches from Malacca to the edge of Red Sea
- Jun 10, 20269.4x their median
PM Modi understood that a nation is strong when both its hands are powerful: an economy which serves the high tech aspirations of youth, and a security architecture which protects the people and destroys the aggressor.
- Jun 10, 20269.0x their median
Our Constitution gave us invaluable, irreplaceable rights like freedom of speech, vote, faith. PM Modi made freedom from hunger and deprivation a fundamental right of people. For the first time every Indian mother is certain that her child has not gone to bed hungry
- Sep 1, 20264.8x their median
#WATCH | Kolkata, West Bengal: On Pakistan PMO cropping PM Modi out of SCO group photo, former MoS MEA MJ Akbar says, "This is how Pakistan converts itself into the laughing stock at every international conference. That censorship of the photograph is the height of pomposity because you have to look at it carefully. Not only has our PM Modi been removed from the picture as if he wasn't there, but the Pakistan PM has been put at the centre of the photo while China's President Xi Jinping has been put on the margin. Such hyper-pomposity is actually evidence of a very deep-seated inferiority complex, which is displayed over and over again by the Pakistan State, and in fact, it converts itself very quickly into extremely irrational behaviour, into terrorism...It is the behaviour of a bully afflicted by an inferiority complex...Wherever Pakistan sits, becomes the bottom of the table."
- Sep 18, 20263.4x their median
Rise of India as a Pivotal Power: How Modi’s Politico-Diplomacy Redefined BRICS https://t.co/0lGynk2vDA
- Aug 19, 20263.0x their median
#WATCH | Mapusa, Goa: On "This is an important part of India" statement by US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor, in Srinagar, Former Union Minister MJ Akbar says, "Sergio Gor's statement on the status of Jammu and Kashmir is most welcome and perhaps long overdue. I hope this is not another exercise in giving India President Trump's crumbs while the main meal is being served elsewhere... If the American ambassador in Islamabad repeats it, then it will raise more confidence in India about the long-lasting implications of such a position. We hope that this will also end the rather American habit of seeing this region with cross-ties because of its alliance with Pakistan... Perhaps Pakistan's most dependable ally has also seen the reality of what is happening today in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, where the people are suffering from poverty and persecution, because Pakistan has always treated POK as a colony..." On US foreign policy regarding India-Pakistan, he says, "The most important development in American policy under President Trump for this region is the delinking of India from the stability and security architecture of the Indian Ocean and of West Asia. This was evident when President Trump quite consciously dropped "Indo" from the Indo-Pacific. The American ambassador in Delhi could not adequately explain why this had happened, but we understood the implications of this significant shift in American policy. President Trump has also described the recent Mecca Pact, and he did so perhaps in the last 24 or 48 hours, as a big, bold, and important first step. The question is, what is the second step? The question is, where is this pact heading? What is the third step? Is this pact heading towards the much-wanted, if slightly illusory, Islamic NATO? We need clarification on that... A military pact must be based on a clear definition of the enemy. Who is the enemy of the three countries?... It is very important that America, which clearly has sponsored this alliance or endorsed this alliance, gives us the clarity that is very urgently required."
- Sep 12, 20261.6x their median
#WATCH | Goa: On the BRICS Summit 2026, former MoS MEA MJ Akbar says, "The Delhi Declaration of BRICS is a very powerful affirmation of principle. And not only that, it is a principle being put into practice. Prime Minister Modi made it very, very clear as a leader that BRICS could not continue being a talk shop. It had to become a workshop... The methodology put down in the declaration, which also mentions the Bandung spirit and the Bandung principles of 1956, is very clear and the phrase that has been used is very, very interesting. The phrase is politico-diplomatic, which means diplomacy led by the political leadership. This is a clear indication of where the country and the world need to go in the resolution of the two big wars at the moment: the Ukraine war as well as the tremendously inflammatory outbreak in West Asia. There are very strong references in the declaration to Palestine—that the people of Palestine have an inherent right to live in their own space, that the character of Jerusalem cannot be changed... BRICS represents not only 40% of the world's GDP, but after this declaration, BRICS represents the same part of the world."
- Aug 15, 2026
Aazadi Mubarak. Aazadi aman, yaqeen aur ekta sey liya tha. Aazadi aman, yaqeen aur ekta sey parwarish karengey. Jai Hind
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 22 interactions against 123K followers, an engagement rate of 0.018%. Posts are seen about 3.6K times each, and 0.619% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.95% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.37 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 6 posts sampled, 33% carry an image or video and 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.5K interactions, about 66x its own typical post. Only 6 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
- What is M.J. Akbar's engagement rate on X?
- M.J. Akbar (@mjakbar) has an engagement rate of 0.018%, based on the median interactions across 6 original posts from the last 30 days against 123,330 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.018%, M.J. Akbar sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,374 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 @mjakbar have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @mjakbar post?
- Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.37 posts per day across the measured window.