Kaushik Basu engagement report
@kaushikcbasu - 273K followers on X
Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 173 interactions against 273K followers, an engagement rate of 0.064%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 51% 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 16K times each, and 1.07% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.92% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 42% carry an image or video and 5% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.5K interactions, about 15x its own typical post.
Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Kaushik Basu's engagement rate beats 51% 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 44% 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 0.064%, Kaushik Basu sits above the 25th percentile of the 213,381 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 | 0.699% |
| 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 01:00 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 | 42% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 5% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 42% 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.
- 5% 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 154 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 14, 202615x their median
As our attention span gets shorter, my collection of these short introductions gets larger. https://t.co/XGQgGBdVM3
- Oct 26, 202614x their median
Lula brings hope to the world.
- Oct 22, 202610x their median
Politeness in China is on the rise. Giving a lecture in China, I made a mathematics mistake on the board. A student raised his hand and said, “In China, we do it differently.”
- Sep 17, 20268.8x their median
4 years ago, today. A special moment. With my PhD students and my PhD adviser, Amartya Sen, at Cornell. https://t.co/jnidxWxs7P
- Oct 12, 20268.4x their median
Memory lane. Nearly two decades ago. Amartya Sen, Emma Rothschild, Ashwini Deshpande, Jorgen Weibull in our Hauz Khas home. https://t.co/891RzPW6iH
- Aug 30, 20268.1x their median
I also have diary entry of the Indira Gandhi Conference Nov 2010. Sonia Gandhi invited leading thinkers like Joe Stiglitz & Rob Riemen. There were new ideas & criticisms, & no effort to silence anyone. That’s how confident democracies function. India must regain that status.
- Oct 14, 20268.0x their median
My photographs of a Manhattan afternoon. Kafkaesque windows that hide so many tales. Feels strange to think that it will all be history one day. https://t.co/n8oJyFDZHT
- Oct 26, 20266.2x their median
First it was the Hungarians, and now the Brazilians are showing the world the way to go.
- Sep 5, 20266.1x their median
Teacher’s Day thanks to Amartya Sen. His spell-binding lectures at the London School of Economics, on economics & philosophy, woven with flawless logic, caused my career switch. I am so grateful for that. https://t.co/Oeh2vTL4xj
- Sep 10, 20264.6x their median
Today, 9 September (1828), is the birthday of one of the greatest writers of all times—Leo Tolstoy. An interesting fact, not widely known, is that it was Tolstoy who, after reading Vivekananda’s works, was so taken in that he got his writings translated into Russian.
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 173 interactions against 273K followers, an engagement rate of 0.064%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 51% 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 16K times each, and 1.07% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.92% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 42% carry an image or video and 5% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.5K interactions, about 15x its own typical post.
- What is Kaushik Basu's engagement rate on X?
- Kaushik Basu (@kaushikcbasu) has an engagement rate of 0.064%, based on the median interactions across 19 original posts from the last 30 days against 272,567 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.064%, Kaushik Basu sits above the 25th percentile of the 213,381 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 @kaushikcbasu have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 51% 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 @kaushikcbasu post?
- Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.23 posts per day across the measured window.