Amitav Ghosh engagement report
@GhoshAmitav - 450K followers on X
Measured over 4 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 4 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 118 interactions against 450K followers, an engagement rate of 0.026%. Posts are seen about 9.8K times each, and 1.20% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.18% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 4 posts sampled, 25% carry an image or video and 75% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 18K interactions, about 150x its own typical post. Only 4 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 4 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026. Recurring tag: #breaking.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.026%, Amitav Ghosh sits above the 25th percentile of the 213,098 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 05:00 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 | 25% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 75% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 25% 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.
- 75% 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 250 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
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 21, 2026150x their median
Sicily has a four-legged early warning system for Mount Etna. It has a beard, it eats gorse, and it is beating several million euros of monitoring equipment by half a day. The shepherds have known this for as long as anyone has kept goats on that mountain. The herd tells you. No drama about it, no bleating, no rearing up and pointing at the summit. They simply decline to go up the hill that morning, and if the goats will not go up, neither do you. Oldest volcano warning system in Europe. Costs nothing. Runs on scrub. For most of history the scientific response to this has been a polite nod and a change of subject. Then in 2011 a German turned up with a box of trackers. Martin Wikelski of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour has an unfashionable habit of asking local people what they already know before deciding they are simple. He collared goats living year-round on the slopes and started logging where they went, and when, and how fast. On 4 January 2012 the data went peculiar. The animals turned down the high pastures they use every day of their lives, all of them, and headed for the trees. The seismometers were quiet. The gas monitors were quiet. In a control room in Catania, a great deal of very expensive equipment was reporting a perfectly ordinary Wednesday. That evening Etna started throwing lava and ash into the sky. Six hours. The same signature has now turned up before eight major eruptions, and at the extreme the goats move fourteen hours ahead of the mountain. Ahead of the tremor. Ahead of the gas. Ahead of everything the volcanologists are paid to watch. Nobody knows how they do it. The best guess is sulphur dioxide and hydrogen sulphide venting beforehand at concentrations no human nose could ever find, which would mean the animals are smelling the future and declining to comment. Wikelski's own summary is that they know in advance, we have no idea how, but they do. The institute says there is not yet enough data for a formal warning system. More eruptions, more animals, more species. Which is the correct scientific answer and a very funny one, since the shepherds reached sufficient confidence somewhere around the Bronze Age and have been acting on it every day since. Rome had geese who saved the city by making a racket when the Gauls came over the wall, and honoured them for it every year afterwards. Etna has their spiritual successors, doing the same job by refusing to walk uphill. We have a word in English for a man who behaves like a goat. It means he eats anything, wrecks anything, and understands nothing. The goat currently outperforms a seismograph.
- Oct 23, 202660x their median
महाराष्ट्रात हे नेमके काय सुरू आहे? एवढे मोठे दुष्काळाचे संकट पुढे असताना टॉरेंट कंपनीसाठी भीमाशंकरच्या जंगलाच्या पायथ्याला हजारो झाडांची कत्तल करण्यात येत आहे, कोणीच मुख्य माध्यमे या विरोधात आवाज उठवत नाहियेत, स्थानिक शिवाई न्यूज नावाचे यूट्यूब चॅनेलचे पत्रकार जीव धोक्यात घालून हे जगासमोर आणत आहेत. @CMOMaharashtra दखल घ्या,
- Sep 7, 202624x their median
In NYC Mayor Mamdani has launched the first-in-the-nation Office of Worker Power, to connect workers who want to unionize with education and resources. Former US Labor Sec Julie Su is overseeing the effort & the executive director comes from the UAW. https://t.co/dIQ4hTh6qF https://t.co/384Gqd2oDZ
- Aug 21, 202622x their median
I have been stunned by the number of officials from a wide variety of countries who, while hardly favoring Iran or feeling much empathy for the Islamic Republic, have privately expressed to me a huge sigh of relief over Tehran’s success in thwarting US-Israeli aggression. So I decided to look into it a bit closer. Hint: It’s not about Iran. It’s the threats that an unchecked America poses to others https://t.co/7KUX3yu0Tl
- Sep 15, 202620x their median
A look at how technofascist AI warlord Alex Karp has embedded Palantir into the Ukrainian state, aiming to make it the first "agentic state" while watching it demographically collapse https://t.co/8bdhlf8yJF https://t.co/ZMeF75G36v
- Sep 6, 20268.4x their median
Kolkata's first gallery dedicated to the history of its Chinese community has just opened in the city's old Chinatown, off Central Avenue. https://t.co/Q9l8ALvIPA
- Sep 6, 20262.6x their median
Debt Trap: Why the French Financial Crisis Will Be a Disaster for the Entire EU France is rapidly becoming the main debt problem in Europe, according to The Economist. Paris no longer has either a budget surplus or economic growth, and its national debt has already reached a catastrophic 118% of GDP. This threatens the stability of the entire European Union: Paris has accumulated the debts, but according to EU law, the entire union will have to bear the burden of solidarity. Moreover, other members of the eurozone are also deeply in debt. The situation is complicated by the fact that France has never been known for its strict financial discipline. Macron and his cabinet have long lived by the principle of "après nous, le déluge" (after us, the flood). And ordinary citizens of European countries will be forced to pay for this feast during the plague.
- Oct 26, 2026
Delighted to learn that the brilliant Mahmood Kooria has won a Leverhulme Prize. Richly deserved. I really enjoyed an event I did with him earlier this year at the @AsiaticSocMum on 'The Indian Ocean as Archive'. https://t.co/ty0WZE6YTb
- Oct 26, 2026
This interview pertains to a book that is only in French for the moment, but it may still be of some interest for those who do not know this language. @CarnegieSAsia @CarnegieIndia @i_montaigneEN @thewire_in @OUPAcademic @PrincetonUPress @karthikavk @FT https://t.co/zxBpgjXfcI
- Sep 7, 2026
'Mumbai could be swallowed by the sea.' Ten years after I wrote about the incredible concentration of risks in Mumbai, I'm glad to see that the city's municipal corporation is trying to get a grip on the situation. https://t.co/9QB51XASsR
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 118 interactions against 450K followers, an engagement rate of 0.026%. Posts are seen about 9.8K times each, and 1.20% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.18% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 4 posts sampled, 25% carry an image or video and 75% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 18K interactions, about 150x its own typical post. Only 4 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 Amitav Ghosh's engagement rate on X?
- Amitav Ghosh (@GhoshAmitav) has an engagement rate of 0.026%, based on the median interactions across 4 original posts from the last 30 days against 449,587 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.026%, Amitav Ghosh sits above the 25th percentile of the 213,098 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 @GhoshAmitav have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @GhoshAmitav post?
- Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.43 posts per day across the measured window.