Business Insider engagement report
@BusinessInsider - 4.3M followers on X
Measured over 380 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 9 interactions against 4.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 380 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% of 3,739 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 13K times each, and 0.067% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.31% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 12.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 380 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 121x its own typical post.
Measured over 380 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tag: #ad.
Compared with accounts its own size
Business Insider's engagement rate beats 6% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 5% 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 under 0.001%, Business Insider sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.431% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 09:00 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 51K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 71K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 229K |
| Monday | 0% | 284K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 273K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 250K |
| Thursday | -2% | 243K |
| Friday | -3% | 251K |
| Saturday | +3% | 226K |
Best tweets
- Aug 18, 2026121x their median
ChatGPT users noticed that lately, the OpenAI chatbot has more of a potty mouth. https://t.co/hJvEXc5m6m
- Aug 18, 2026104x their median
NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani is targeting small issues like junk fees, petty scams, and red tape in a strategy to prove his government can deliver. https://t.co/FiNFAScAKR
- Aug 23, 202646x their median
Hugging Face, an AI developer platform, has been exploring a potential $13 billion sale, highlighting its key role in the AI ecosystem. https://t.co/Ou14G5fmCr
- Aug 28, 202622x their median
Taking a career break could be one of your riskiest decisions. But what if it ends up being the best? https://t.co/3yIEzaZZYw
- Aug 27, 202616x their median
Nvidia has held talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion as the chip giant expands its AI dealmaking. https://t.co/QZZbkxyUY2
- Aug 29, 20269.7x their median
"I don't think it's marketing. I think they're really concerned." https://t.co/bwgYDmSZwi
- Aug 28, 20268.8x their median
Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius said he found EV religion after driving an electric AMG with synthetic V8 sounds, shifts, and vibrations. https://t.co/ZPxov9LPQU
- Aug 22, 20268.2x their median
OpenAI's chief economist says studying AI's economic impact requires flexibility, collaboration, and comfort with constant change. https://t.co/VhwP7RiNvD
- Aug 28, 20268.0x their median
"Crazy how much you can age in a few days," Thibault Sottiaux, the engineering lead on OpenAI's Codex, said. https://t.co/uthpElrFRD
- Aug 22, 20267.9x their median
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association said President Trump's plan to lower beef costs "is 100% about the 74 days between now and the midterm elections." https://t.co/Hyyi6wYhKV
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 9 interactions against 4.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 380 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% of 3,739 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 13K times each, and 0.067% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.31% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 12.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 380 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 121x its own typical post.
- What is Business Insider's engagement rate on X?
- Business Insider (@BusinessInsider) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 380 original posts from the last 30 days against 4,341,337 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, Business Insider sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 @BusinessInsider have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 6% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% 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 @BusinessInsider post?
- Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 12.67 posts per day across the measured window.