The Insider engagement report
@the_ins_ru - 343K followers on X
Measured over 113 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 8, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 55 interactions against 343K followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 113 original posts, its engagement rate beats 41% 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 5.9K times each, and 0.938% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.71% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 113 posts sampled, 5% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 807 interactions, about 15x its own typical post.
Measured over 113 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 8, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Insider's engagement rate beats 41% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 46% 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 0.016%, The Insider sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,880 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 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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 | 5% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 5% 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.
- 100% 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 148 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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 2, 202615x their median
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- Sep 12, 202611x their median
В Петербурге выстроились многочасовые очереди за бензином. Топлива нет больше чем на половине АЗС https://t.co/g3U5Q3Q19V
- Sep 12, 20268.0x their median
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- Oct 7, 20267.7x their median
Кадыров получил знак «Почетный архитектор России». Ранее его награждали за вклад в науку, атомную безопасность и цементную промышленность https://t.co/LRONHScOjk
- Sep 1, 20267.6x their median
В США приговорили к 18 месяцам тюрьмы итальянского бизнесмена, поставлявшего в Россию патроны в обход санкций https://t.co/tdgXAX2Jdf
- Sep 12, 20267.0x their median
Бот-сеть «Матрёшка» начала кампанию по вмешательству в выборы в Конгресс США: «знаменитости» призывают не голосовать за «демократов-педофилов», рассказал The Insider проект @antibot4navalny https://t.co/LaFDemPNgW
- Oct 7, 20266.7x their median
Завод Росатома исключили из нового пакета санкций ЕС по просьбе Эстонии, которой он поставляет редкоземельные элементы — «Система» https://t.co/IOs5VXW0Rq
- Sep 2, 20266.6x their median
Албания не пустила в порт танкер, так как Украина отнесла его к российскому «теневому флоту» https://t.co/o9GhPsCjuw
- Sep 1, 20266.0x their median
Вице-президента Bank of America убили ножом в Нью-Йорке на Таймс-сквер https://t.co/lsDCqu6rps
- Sep 12, 20265.8x their median
Полиция Германии читает переписку в WhatsApp и Signal, тайно подключаясь к чужим аккаунтам как к «своему» устройству https://t.co/HWaxpaMz5U
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 55 interactions against 343K followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 113 original posts, its engagement rate beats 41% 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 5.9K times each, and 0.938% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.71% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 113 posts sampled, 5% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 807 interactions, about 15x its own typical post.
- What is The Insider's engagement rate on X?
- The Insider (@the_ins_ru) has an engagement rate of 0.016%, based on the median interactions across 113 original posts from the last 30 days against 343,076 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.016%, The Insider sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,880 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 @the_ins_ru have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 41% 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 @the_ins_ru post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.87 posts per day across the measured window.