Virginia Tech engagement report
@virginia_tech - 96K followers on X
Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 16, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 47 interactions against 96K followers, an engagement rate of 0.049%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 39% of 15,519 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 5.2K times each, and 0.897% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.49% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.63 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 87% carry an image or video and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.8K interactions, about 56x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #vt30, #virginiatech.
Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 16, 2026. Recurring tags: #vt30, #virginiatech.
Compared with accounts its own size
Virginia Tech's engagement rate beats 39% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 38% 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 0.049%, Virginia Tech sits above the 25th percentile of the 157,752 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.022% to 0.128%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.003% |
| 25th percentile | 0.022% |
| 50th percentile | 0.128% |
| 75th percentile | 0.604% |
| 90th percentile | 2.32% |
| 99th percentile | 83.4% |
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 Monday 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 | 87% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 33% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 87% 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.
- 33% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 177 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
- Jun 4, 202656x their median
Historic. Transformational. Game-changing. Virginia Tech has received a $75 million commitment, the largest in university history. From Invest to Win to the future ahead, the momentum continues. π β‘οΈ https://t.co/Gjg8uBfE6b https://t.co/qjPKfcDxrS
- Aug 25, 202621x their median
Introducing the Virginia Tech Class of 2030 ππ¦ #VT30 https://t.co/G4lkKO12jT
- Sep 6, 202613x their median
Feels good to be home. π§‘ https://t.co/b2m9Meipdm
- Sep 12, 202610x their median
Birthday bird. ππ¦ The modern-day HokieBird soared into history on Sept. 12, 1987. Making a grand football entrance from a white limousine at the season opener, the HokieBird stepped out of the limo and into the limelight. https://t.co/bj0bx6VAqU
- Sep 11, 20269.0x their median
We remember. πΊπΈβ€οΈ This morning, the @VTCorpsofCadets and honored guests held a formation on Upper Quad to remember the first responders, survivors, and those who lost their lives 25 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001. https://t.co/z4Mq0b4ikC
- Jul 23, 20268.0x their median
The largest ever estate gift in support of the Virginia Tech School of Architecture has been committed by Professor Emeritus Salahuddin Choudhury and his wife, May. Read the full story β‘οΈ https://t.co/uOhcDfP8w8 https://t.co/lrteTvKab2
- Sep 6, 20266.4x their median
Back in Lane. π₯ https://t.co/HASYBYpRQ4
- Jun 17, 20266.1x their median
Happy National Mascot Day to the best! π¦βΌοΈ https://t.co/KHRjV47NOQ
- Aug 11, 20264.1x their median
No matter the year, a new semester brings all the good vibes. π§‘ https://t.co/rnMYPYQTZ0
- Aug 24, 20263.2x their median
Happy first day of class, Hokies! π¦ https://t.co/wOuByGvAIX
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 47 interactions against 96K followers, an engagement rate of 0.049%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 39% of 15,519 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 5.2K times each, and 0.897% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.49% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.63 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 87% carry an image or video and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.8K interactions, about 56x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #vt30, #virginiatech.
- What is Virginia Tech's engagement rate on X?
- Virginia Tech (@virginia_tech) has an engagement rate of 0.049%, based on the median interactions across 15 original posts from the last 30 days against 95,556 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.049%, Virginia Tech sits above the 25th percentile of the 157,752 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 @virginia_tech have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 39% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 @virginia_tech post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.63 posts per day across the measured window.