Art Basel engagement report
@ArtBasel - 777K followers on X
Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 26 interactions against 777K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 20% of 3,899 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 5.0K times each, and 0.511% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.642% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 53% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.2K interactions, about 354x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #artbaselstories, #artbaselawards, #artmarketreport.
Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #artbaselstories, #artbaselawards, #artmarketreport.
Compared with accounts its own size
Art Basel's engagement rate beats 20% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 35% 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 0.003%, Art Basel sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,582 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 158.1% |
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 14:00 UTC, and Friday 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% | 52K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 62K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 74K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 89K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 104K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 94K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 68K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 59K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 237K |
| Monday | 0% | 300K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 299K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 256K |
| Thursday | -1% | 249K |
| Friday | -3% | 258K |
| Saturday | +3% | 232K |
Best tweets
- Aug 27, 2026354x their median
Yayoi Kusama, 1929 - 2026 🖤 https://t.co/nXnMyd1g8H
- Aug 25, 202637x their median
❤️ Shown here: Andy Warhol, Dolly Parton, 1985 via Kasmin Gallery. https://t.co/iwIpE7owyP
- Aug 30, 20267.6x their median
Coke vs Pepsi at Art Basel… except the two “rivals” are literally sharing the same drink.😂 Everyone’s picking a side while the machine quietly proves whole argument is pointless. Brilliant. https://t.co/0nLmCOw7CU
- Aug 22, 20265.0x their median
👀 Seeing double 👀 Throughout his career, Canadian artist David Altmejd has toyed with how to represent the human body. He distorts our sense of scale and place in arresting sculptures full of narrative potential. They tease our senses and leave us wondering – who is this figure and where did it come from? Shown here: #DavidAltmejd, 'enter' (2020).
- Jul 22, 20264.9x their median
📣 The Conversations program recordings from our 2026 Basel show are now live! Dive into powerful panel discussions exploring gallery longevity, today’s art market, and so much more. Missed the event? Here’s your chance to catch up – find the full playlist here: https://t.co/uKpOluZGSU
- Jul 22, 20264.7x their median
🌼🌼🌼 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Shown here: Ryan Mrozowski, ‘Untitled (Shifted Flowers)’ (2019), previously exhibited by Galerie Nordenhake at #ArtBasel in Basel 2019. https://t.co/W5UUluCPAI
- Jul 28, 20264.0x their median
When in doubt, look 🆙 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you're traveling through New York's Penn Station this summer, keep an eye out for Elmgreen and DragsetStudio’s ‘The Hive’ (2019), a fantastical inverted cityscape inspired by New York's iconic skyline. https://t.co/BK0YFw3L3z
- Jul 25, 20263.7x their median
gm! @john__gerrard at Zero 10 @ArtBasel https://t.co/POINgpoZiN
- Jul 23, 20263.3x their median
🇯🇵 Jewelry designer #MioHarutaka finds inspiration in moments of quiet contemplation in Tokyo, recommending a traditional tea ceremony in Roppongi while sharing how Japanese art and design inform her minimalist aesthetics. Stay tuned for more and don't miss the fifth edition of Art Week Tokyo, taking place from November 4–8, 2026: https://t.co/liTYr6Avtp
- Jul 31, 20262.8x their median
From New York to London, Fridamania has hit the art market—hard. But she's not the only female surrealist to see a spike in interest. ➡️ The Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report by Arts Economics noted that markets are also surging for Kahlo's contemporaries like Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning. 📊 The report's tenth edition presents a comprehensive macroeconomic analysis of the global art market benchmark in 2025. Download it for an examination of the performance of galleries, auction houses, and art fairs in the context of changes in the global economy and wealth landscape. Access the free Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report by Arts Economics: https://t.co/vi6hxI4o2e
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 26 interactions against 777K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 20% of 3,899 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 5.0K times each, and 0.511% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.642% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 53% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.2K interactions, about 354x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #artbaselstories, #artbaselawards, #artmarketreport.
- What is Art Basel's engagement rate on X?
- Art Basel (@ArtBasel) has an engagement rate of 0.003%, based on the median interactions across 32 original posts from the last 30 days against 776,953 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.003%, Art Basel sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,582 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 @ArtBasel have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 20% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size 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 @ArtBasel post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.3 posts per day across the measured window.