Dr. Brahma Chellaney engagement report
@Chellaney - 313K followers on X
Measured over 28 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 15, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 354 interactions against 313K followers, an engagement rate of 0.113%. Measured over 28 original posts, its engagement rate beats 61% of 21,185 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 17K times each, and 2.13% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.31% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 28 posts sampled, 43% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.9K interactions, about 14x its own typical post.
Measured over 28 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 15, 2026. Recurring tag: #brics.
Compared with accounts its own size
Dr. Brahma Chellaney's engagement rate beats 61% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 64% 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 0.113%, Dr. Brahma Chellaney sits above the 25th percentile of the 213,186 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.025% to 0.147%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.147% |
| 75th percentile | 0.698% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 82.9% |
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 06:00 UTC, and Thursday 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 | 4% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 43% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 4% 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.
- 43% 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 854 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
- Aug 26, 202614x their median
The Himalayas are the world’s most seismically active major mountain range, with a record of triggering devastating earthquakes. How even a moderate seismic event can trigger massive cascading effects was illustrated today when a magnitude 4.4 quake along the Tibet-Nepal border unleashed a disaster, with flash floods washing away Nepali villages. This will renew global attention on China's folly in persisting with the construction of the world's largest dam in the middle of the Himalayan seismic zone. The project, located next to the Indo-Tibetan border, is a water bomb in the making, which could drown India's northeast and wreak havoc farther downstream in Bangladesh.
- Aug 29, 202614x their median
The flood tragedy in Nepal and Tibet ought to focus global attention on the super-dam China is building in another section of the Himalayas, despite its own scientists in June warning of serious geological hazards at the construction site. Shrouded in secrecy, the unparalleled dam is rising within the Himalayan seismic belt, one of Earth’s most earthquake-prone regions. The dam's gigantic reservoir could itself induce earthquakes by intensifying geological stresses. My column: https://t.co/tg3FwaRf6j
- Aug 25, 20266.0x their median
Shortly after India's Operation Sindoor ended in just three and a half days in May 2025, satellite images emerged showing smoke and impact marks at the Kirana Hills, a site widely believed to house Pakistan's nuclear-weapons infrastructure and storage facilities. Speaking today, India's then Chief of Defence Staff, General Anil Chauhan, clarified that any impact at Kirana Hills was entirely unintentional, stating that the autonomous loitering munitions (kamikaze drones) used to target radar installations at the nearby Sargodha airbase, about 10 km away, self-destructed after exhausting their two-hour battery life. By attributing the Kirana Hills impact to drone mechanics rather than a deliberate strike, Chauhan reinforced India's position that Operation Sindoor targeted only terrorist infrastructure and conventional military assets, not Pakistan's nuclear facilities. It remains unclear, however, what prompted him to issue this clarification more than 15 months after the operation.
- Sep 10, 20265.4x their median
American Matthew Aaron VanDyke, a veteran of covert wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, was arrested in India in March alongside six military-trained drone specialists from Ukraine. Indian authorities allege the group, part of a larger international network, smuggled drones into India and then into Myanmar. After returning from Myanmar, the seven were arrested under India's stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for alleged terrorist conspiracy. VanDyke's case has since been raised with New Delhi by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In a preliminary chargesheet filed this week, however, India's National Investigation Agency indicted the seven under the Immigration and Foreigners Act, not the UAPA, telling the court that its wider investigation into the alleged cross-border drone supplies and terrorist conspiracy remains ongoing. Earlier, after VanDyke began a liquid-only hunger strike, saying he could not stomach the prison's Indian-style food, a New Delhi court — without objection from the prosecution — approved his request for a special Western-style diet in jail. It is difficult to imagine an Indian jailed in the U.S. on terrorist-conspiracy charges receiving a court-approved special Indian diet as readily. The New Delhi court even ordered the jail authorities to assign a prison cook to take care of VanDyke's dietary needs.
- Sep 12, 20265.1x their median
Brazilian President Lula da Silva's absence at the BRICS Summit in New Delhi has been conspicuous as he is the sole sitting leader from the original 2009 BRIC quartet still in office. Like Brazil, two newer BRICS members, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, sent their foreign ministers instead to the summit. Saudi Arabia's decision isn't a surprise: It continues its strategy of calculated ambiguity on BRICS, neither completing the formal accession procedures nor explicitly declaring full membership but instead claiming to participate as an "invited guest."
- Aug 28, 20264.8x their median
As it did during the Wuhan-originating COVID-19 outbreak, China is censoring information about the Nepal–Tibet flood disaster, raising serious concerns for humanitarian response, the safety of stranded or missing people, and public accountability. Such censorship, or tightly state-curated messaging, creates information vacuums that are often filled by rumors, speculation and panic. https://t.co/6Q73V25JVe
- Aug 28, 20264.6x their median
Upstream engineering, downstream disaster: The hidden factor in Nepal’s tragedy. My op-ed on how China’s upstream projects may have turned a natural disaster into a cascading catastrophe. According to Beijing's own statements over the past decade, it has expanded embankments, border facilities, highways and other civil works in the upstream river corridor, with significant construction concentrated along riverbanks. Its diversion weirs, intake structures, embankments and other hydrological modifications created localized bottlenecks in the Himalayan gorges. Realignment of riverbanks, concrete embankments and heavy border civil engineering (such as facilities around Gyirong Port) narrowed natural channels. Upstream hydraulic structures, including intake works, altered natural flow dynamics, creating secondary choke points that burst under pressure, exacerbating the sudden torrent downstream. https://t.co/6DxKgHgVOy
- Sep 6, 20224.5x their median
In its centennial anniversary issue released today, @ForeignAffairs has a special review section, "Books for the Century." My book, Water: Asia's New Battleground, has been named as one of the six essential Asia-Pacific books published over the century. https://t.co/kgk2WoIlHH
- Oct 4, 20263.6x their median
Oman is widely perceived as a moderate and forward-looking Muslim state that practices a more tolerant form of Islam known as Ibadism, distinct from both Sunni and Shia traditions. Historically, this has fostered a culture of religious tolerance, a largely violence-free society and a tradition of peace diplomacy, earning Oman the nickname “the Switzerland of the Middle East.” Hamam al-Hammami, the co-pilot of FlyDubai Flight 1073, was radicalized not in Oman but in Syria, where, with a Syrian mother and Omani father, he grew up amid the prolonged Western-supported civil war against the Assad regime. The covert campaign against Assad, which began during the Barack Obama presidency, became the CIA’s largest covert operation since its 1980s “jihad” against Soviet forces in Afghanistan — a campaign that helped give rise to Al Qaeda and figures such as Osama bin Laden. Co-pilot Hammami’s attempt to bring down Flight 1073 by attacking the captain with a crash ax is the latest example of how Western replacement of secular dictators (from Iraq and Libya to Syria) with more Islamist alternatives can come back to haunt international security. Even the 1979 “Islamic Revolution” in Iran had its roots in the CIA’s 1953 overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, a secular, democratically elected nationalist leader who famously nationalized Iran's oil industry, which had previously been controlled by the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now BP).
- Sep 4, 20263.3x their median
Ironically, the latest evidence suggests that China's scientific establishment understands the dangers of building the unprecedented super-dam more clearly than its political leadership appears willing to acknowledge. Now that China’s own geologists have raised the alarm, Beijing must embrace transparency and accept transboundary responsibilities before a potential water bomb is fully assembled upstream. https://t.co/tg3FwaRf6j
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 354 interactions against 313K followers, an engagement rate of 0.113%. Measured over 28 original posts, its engagement rate beats 61% of 21,185 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 17K times each, and 2.13% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.31% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 28 posts sampled, 43% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.9K interactions, about 14x its own typical post.
- What is Dr. Brahma Chellaney's engagement rate on X?
- Dr. Brahma Chellaney (@Chellaney) has an engagement rate of 0.113%, based on the median interactions across 28 original posts from the last 30 days against 312,734 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.113%, Dr. Brahma Chellaney sits above the 25th percentile of the 213,186 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 @Chellaney have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 61% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 @Chellaney post?
- Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.17 posts per day across the measured window.