Cornell University engagement report
@Cornell - 404K 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 65 interactions against 404K followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 35% of 4,293 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 7.8K times each, and 0.836% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.92% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video and 63% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.4K interactions, about 21x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #cornellwelcome, #yellcornell.
Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #cornellwelcome, #yellcornell.
Compared with accounts its own size
Cornell University's engagement rate beats 35% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,293 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 0.016%, Cornell University sits above the 25th percentile of the 41,569 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.013% to 0.083%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.013% |
| 50th percentile | 0.083% |
| 75th percentile | 0.447% |
| 90th percentile | 2.07% |
| 99th percentile | 143.8% |
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 12:00 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% | 58K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 59K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 57K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 49K |
| 05:00 UTC | -5% | 48K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 55K |
| 07:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 69K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 80K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 83K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 90K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 99K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 108K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 112K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 116K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 112K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 105K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 97K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 86K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 76K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 66K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 59K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 255K |
| Monday | +1% | 327K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 351K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 315K |
| Thursday | -2% | 267K |
| Friday | -3% | 275K |
| Saturday | +3% | 248K |
Best tweets
- Aug 24, 202621x their median
Researchers at Cornell have created an interactive map identifying 1.8 million individual trees in New York City, with a new approach that could optimize the placement of trees for cooling in cities around the world. In the study, researchers identify the types of trees using satellite imagery as well as on-the-ground datasets and 3D data collected with lidar, short for light detection and ranging. The approach was 82% accurate overall and higher for common types of New York City trees. It’s the first “wall-to-wall,” citywide map identifying trees in natural areas and other unsurveyed areas, which together constitute an estimated 65% of the city’s canopy and have not been accounted for on previous maps. The research team will use the map to determine which trees are best for cooling, and the data could inform a host of other planting decisions where the type of tree makes a difference, from reducing allergens to managing invasive pests. Read more: https://t.co/hDOxDy2kpB
- Aug 9, 20264.8x their median
Cornell, where the entire university feels like it was built for book lovers. 📚 (We have over a dozen libraries to prove it.) @Cornell_Library https://t.co/lVPykoHkn2
- Aug 24, 20262.5x their median
Here's what the first day of classes at Cornell looked like today. https://t.co/ej5Eb40Rvo
- Aug 17, 20261.9x their median
Cornell's newest students are officially on the Hill. Welcome home. 🐾 #CornellWelcome https://t.co/vF0eDxNAyM
- Aug 13, 20261.8x their median
A total of 3,681 first-year students and 603 transfers begin moving to campus on August 17, hailing from 49 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and American Samoa, and 62 countries. Among the first-year students, 997 hail from New York state, 12.8% are the first in their family to attend college, and four served in the military. Among transfer students, 23 are veterans. “We are so excited to welcome our newest Cornellians, who will bring their own stories of curiosity and unique aspirations,” said Lisa Nishii, senior vice provost for enrollment management and undergraduate education. “Our vibrant community of faculty, staff and peers looks forward to serving as their mentors as they explore new intellectual paths, build meaningful connections and form a sense of purpose that will shape their lives at Cornell and beyond.” Read more: https://t.co/jaHjrtyEXx
- Aug 21, 20261.8x their median
“Every single one of you is here, because we saw something special in you that meant you belonged at Cornell,” President Michael I. Kotlikoff told the nearly 4,300 first-year and transfer students who, with their families, gathered August 18 at Schoellkopf Field for New Student Convocation. “So if at some point in the months ahead, when you’re wrestling with a problem set or a paper, and you start to wonder if maybe somebody in Admissions made a mistake – I can tell you right now, they did not,” Kotlikoff said. “You are a Cornellian. And this is where you belong.” Read more: https://t.co/4V0pAqBMKY
- Aug 13, 20261.6x their median
When the sun fades far away In the crimson of the west… https://t.co/kILmhSA54A
- Aug 18, 20261.5x their median
Our newest Cornellians are already settling in. That Big Red energy is everywhere. #CornellWelcome https://t.co/QMOPpFnwIu
- Aug 28, 2026
It was a great start to the Cornell academic year! https://t.co/j4udwiQDF6
- Aug 7, 2026
Big Red summer views. https://t.co/TrKMWAyDOe
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 65 interactions against 404K followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 35% of 4,293 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 7.8K times each, and 0.836% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.92% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video and 63% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.4K interactions, about 21x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #cornellwelcome, #yellcornell.
- What is Cornell University's engagement rate on X?
- Cornell University (@Cornell) has an engagement rate of 0.016%, based on the median interactions across 32 original posts from the last 30 days against 403,869 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.016%, Cornell University sits above the 25th percentile of the 41,569 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 @Cornell have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 35% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,293 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 @Cornell post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.77 posts per day across the measured window.