Dr P Thiaga Rajan (PTR) engagement report
@ptrmadurai - 599K followers on X
Measured over 12 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.1K interactions against 599K followers, an engagement rate of 0.187%. Measured over 12 original posts, its engagement rate beats 80% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 30K times each, and 3.75% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.99% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.83 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 12 posts sampled, 83% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 12x its own typical post.
Measured over 12 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026. Recurring tag: #watch.
Compared with accounts its own size
Dr P Thiaga Rajan (PTR)'s engagement rate beats 80% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 86% 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 0.187%, Dr P Thiaga Rajan (PTR) sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.433%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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 04:00 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 98K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- May 18, 202612x their median
A long note, after a lot of reflection, and before a short break… https://t.co/cVXpdQxq7a
- Jun 23, 20268.2x their median
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ During my tenure as IT Minister, I had no role in IT promotions. Sole responsibility was with this Minister's Department of Industries and Investment Promotion. How could the IT Minister have demanded anything? So who is lying here - the Minister, or @SouthMatters ? https://t.co/DQpLzz3YUz
- Aug 21, 20265.8x their median
Rhiya Ahir: "There is a difference between Patriotism & Nationalism." Arnab: "Who served this RUBBISH to you? Rahul Gandhi said India is not a nation." Rhiya: "Patriotism means love for your country while Nationalism, as Tagore said, is keeping your country above everyone else's."😂 Arnab: "First of all, don't talk to me in this American Twang and Slang. I speak proper English."😭💥
- Jun 3, 20265.7x their median
தமிழ்ச் சமூகத்திற்காக அர்ப்பணிக்கப்பட்ட தம் பொதுவாழ்வில் எத்தனையோ ஏற்றத் தாழ்வுகள், வெற்றி - தோல்விகள், விமர்சனங்கள் என அனைத்தையும் கடந்து, அரை நூற்றாண்டுக்கும் மேலாக தமிழக அரசியலின் மையப் புள்ளியாகத் திகழ்ந்த மகத்தான ஆளுமை! அரசியல் ரீதியாக ஏற்பட்ட அத்தனை எதிர்ப்புகளையும் -நெருக்கடிகளையும் முறியடித்து, பேரறிஞர் பெருந்தகை அண்ணா அவர்கள் தொடங்கிய நமது திராவிட முன்னேற்றக் கழகம், உயிரோட்டமுள்ள, வலிமையான மக்கள் இயக்கமாக என்றும் நிலைத்திருக்கும் வகையில் வழிநடத்திய தன்னிகரற்றத் தலைவர்! சமூக மற்றும் பொருளாதார வளர்ச்சிக் குறியீடுகளில், இன்று இந்தியாவின் முன்னணி மாநிலமாக தமிழ்நாடு விளங்குவதற்கு வலுவான அடித்தளம் அமைத்திட்ட, தொலைநோக்கு பார்வை கொண்ட முதல்வர்! இலக்கியம், நாடகம், திரைப்படம், பத்திரிகை எனப் படைப்புலகின் அனைத்துத் துறைகளிலும் தன் எழுத்துக்களால் அழியாத முத்திரை பதித்து, தலைமுறைகள் கடந்தும் நிலைத்திருக்கும் பங்களிப்புகளை வழங்கிய மாபெரும் கலைஞர்! நீதிக்கட்சி மற்றும் சுயமரியாதை இயக்கம் வகுத்தளித்த சமூகநீதி, சமத்துவம், பகுத்தறிவு ஆகிய கொள்கைகளை இறுதிவரை உறுதியாக ஏந்தி நின்ற கொள்கை வீரர்! தமிழினக் காவலர், முத்தமிழறிஞர் தலைவர் கலைஞர் அவர்களின் பிறந்த நாளான இன்று, அவரதம் மகத்தான பொதுவாழ்வையும், பெரும்புகழையும் போற்றுவோம். வாழ்க கலைஞரின் புகழ்!
- Aug 4, 20265.3x their median
The arrest of the Leader of the Opposition, Thiru @Udhaystalin, just a day before the Government is set to present its first Budget deserves the strongest condemnation. Attempting to silence the principal voice of the Opposition ahead of the Budget Session reflects not strength, but insecurity. நாளை அரசு தனது முதல் நிதிநிலை அறிக்கையை தாக்கல் செய்யவுள்ள நிலையில், இன்று அவசரகதியில் சட்டப்பேரவை எதிர்க்கட்சித் தலைவர் திரு. உதயநிதி ஸ்டாலின் அவர்கள் கைது செய்யப்பட்டிருப்பது வன்மையான கண்டனத்திற்குரியது. நிதிநிலை அறிக்கை மீதான விவாதத்திற்கு முன்னதாகவே எதிர்க்கட்சியின் பிரதான குரலை ஒடுக்க முயல்வது, ஆளும் அரசின் பலவீனத்தையும் பாதுகாப்பற்ற மனநிலையையுமே வெளிப்படுத்துகிறது.
- May 27, 20264.7x their median
Good to be back in London after a while, and to visit old haunts and new places, catch up with old friends, make new ones, and run into one unexpectedly 😊 https://t.co/FGNDMHzm8r
- Jun 22, 20264.2x their median
தொடர் பயணத்தில் இருந்தபோதும், சமீபத்தில் தமிழ்நாடு அரசு வெளியிட்டுள்ள வெள்ளை அறிக்கை குறித்து விமான நிலையத்தில் புதிய தலைமுறைக்கு பேட்டியளித்தேன். 2021ஆம் ஆண்டு நான் நிதியமைச்சராக இருந்தபோது வெளியிடப்பட்ட வெள்ளை அறிக்கைக்கும் தற்போதைய அறிக்கைக்கும் இடையிலான அடிப்படை வேறுபாடுகளை சுட்டிக்காட்டியதோடு, நிதி நிலையில் ஏற்பட்ட முன்னேற்றம் தானாக நிகழ்ந்ததல்ல; கழக ஆட்சியின் முதல் இரண்டு ஆண்டுகளில் நாங்கள் மேற்கொண்ட திட்டமிட்ட சீர்திருத்தங்களின் விளைவு என்பதை, தரவுகளின் அடிப்படையில் எவருடனும் விவாதிக்கத் தயார் என்பதை தெரிவித்தேன். மேலும், கட்டமைப்பு ரீதியான மாற்றங்களால் மட்டுமே நீடித்த முன்னேற்றத்தை உருவாக்க முடியும் என்பதையும் வலியுறுத்தி, அதிகாரிகள் புதிய அரசை தவறாக வழிநடத்த அனுமதிக்கக் கூடாது என அறிவுறுத்தினேன்.
- May 27, 20262.9x their median
Impact After Term | 03 : Reducing the Revenue Deficit While Expanding Welfare When the DMK Government assumed office in 2021, Tamil Nadu was confronting one of the gravest fiscal crises in its history amid the devastating second wave of COVID-19. The State inherited a revenue deficit of nearly ₹62,000 crore alongside severe economic distress. With the support and guidance of the then Chief Minister Thiru. @mkstalin, Dr. @ptrmadurai, as Minister for Finance & Human Resources Management, pursued structural reforms and welfare expansion despite severe fiscal constraints. The White Paper on State Finances released in August 2021 exposed the scale of fiscal stress and laid the foundation for long-term reforms, including data-centric governance measures aimed at improving beneficiary targeting and reducing leakages. Even during this crisis, the Government implemented welfare measures on an unprecedented scale — ₹4,000 COVID relief assistance and grocery support for 2.1 crore ration cardholders at a total cost of ₹9,370 crore; nearly ₹9,000 crore towards crop, jewel, and SHG loan waivers; over ₹2,200 crore for free bus travel for women; ₹698 crore for Pudhumai Penn; and a ₹3 per litre reduction in petrol tax despite an annual revenue impact of ₹1,160 crore. Despite these large-scale welfare commitments, unprecedented and difficult fiscal reforms helped reduce the inherited annual revenue deficit by roughly half within two years — demonstrating that fiscal discipline and social welfare need not be pursued at the expense of one another. — Admin Team
- Jun 6, 20262.5x their median
Going back to study full-time in my 30's led to among the happiest years of my life, forging deeply enriching life-long relationships, and opening up so many new horizons. Our 25th Reunion last week was sheer joy - full of warmth, love, memories (sailing😁), and learning😊😊😊 https://t.co/EQDvXuYM66
- Aug 14, 20262.4x their median
Just landed in Chennai after an aborted landing attempt which the Co-Pilot later explained was due to an ATC instruction to abort based on "unexpected movement on the runway." While I've experienced other aborted landings around the world in a life filled with travel, they have always been weather-related - the pilot and/or ATC deciding that the risk is beyond tolerance due to wind shifts or rain/snow/ice. Such "runway protocol" exceptions are signs of potential Infrastructure/ATC overload, and therefore potentially pose grave risk of systemic failure. I trust the @DGCAIndia and the @MoCA_GoI have a procedure in place to analyze every single such instance, and draw lessons to improve runway protocols. Throughout the history of civil aviation, the takeoff and landing are the riskiest parts of any flight. Infrastructure/Administrative overload should not increase this further, especially in India where growth in civil aviation shines as one of the brightest spots in our development over the past decades.
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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A typical post picks up 1.1K interactions against 599K followers, an engagement rate of 0.187%. Measured over 12 original posts, its engagement rate beats 80% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 30K times each, and 3.75% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.99% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.83 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 12 posts sampled, 83% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 12x its own typical post.
- What is Dr P Thiaga Rajan (PTR)'s engagement rate on X?
- Dr P Thiaga Rajan (PTR) (@ptrmadurai) has an engagement rate of 0.187%, based on the median interactions across 12 original posts from the last 30 days against 599,071 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.187%, Dr P Thiaga Rajan (PTR) sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,654 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 @ptrmadurai have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 80% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the top 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 @ptrmadurai post?
- Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.83 posts per day across the measured window.