Hu Xijin 胡锡进 engagement report
@HuXijin_GT - 579K followers on X
Measured over 28 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 98 interactions against 579K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 28 original posts, its engagement rate beats 41% of 3,917 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 22K times each, and 0.454% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.73% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 28 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 11% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 28K interactions, about 287x its own typical post.
Measured over 28 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Hu Xijin 胡锡进's engagement rate beats 41% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 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 32% 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 0.017%, Hu Xijin 胡锡进 sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,856 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.081%.
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 | 155.6% |
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 16:00 UTC, and Thursday 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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 54K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 56K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 45K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 82K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 99K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 102K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 103K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 89K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 84K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 78K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 54K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 239K |
| Monday | 0% | 303K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 305K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 259K |
| Thursday | -2% | 251K |
| Friday | -3% | 260K |
| Saturday | +3% | 234K |
Best tweets
- Jul 6, 2026287x their median
BREAKING: President Trump reveals the details of his conversation with FIFA President Gianni Infantino over the controversial red card call on star American player Folarin Balogun. "All I did was ask for a review because I didn't think it was a foul. And, you know, again, I'm good at this stuff. I didn't think it was a foul. I thought it was two great athletes that crashed into each other and got entangled." "I think they made a really brilliant decision. I think the referee's call was horrible and nobody talks about that. They talk about the red card like it's fine, nobody talks the referee's decision to red card."
- Jul 12, 20263.9x their median
China has shown considerable restraint in the South China Sea. Just imagine what would happen if China treated the Philippines the way the US has treated Iran or Venezuela. So far, China has responded to provocations by Philippine vessels with water cannons. https://t.co/fUa5Bpu0MD
- Jul 20, 20263.5x their median
China, which possesses aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, and destroyers, sent a small coast guard boat to deal with Philippine soldiers. In our hands we are holding sticks — exactly the same as the sticks they are holding. https://t.co/x65ZXb6RwD
- Aug 10, 20262.5x their median
According to the Nikkei, Chinese companies and universities have surpassed the U.S. in R&D spending, ranking first in the world. https://t.co/pEDZDJE7Yx
- Jul 29, 20262.4x their median
The longer the Iran war drags on, the more people will form the impression that U.S. power has its limits and cannot subdue a medium-sized country that has long been under sanctions.
- Aug 22, 20262.1x their median
At the second World Robot Games held in Beijing, a robot achieved an official time of 9.39 seconds in the 100-meter dash, outrunning Usain Bolt. https://t.co/V5eIeZPV6Y
- Aug 18, 20262.1x their median
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, when asked about the Taiwan issue, said bluntly: I see Taiwan as part of China……I always take it as a military example. If one province decide to break away, do we use force? I think I will protect the sanctity and unity of the nation. https://t.co/dHBcjQlXCV
- Aug 13, 20261.8x their median
I'm currently vacationing in Beidaihe, a coastal city in northern China. There are many Russian tourists in the city, some of them are young Russian men. The scene isn't much different from what I saw in this city a few years ago. Russians still have the money to travel and vacation in China, the men can legally leave the country, and the country's economic hardship and shortage of frontline soldiers don't seem as severe as Western media portrays.
- Jul 10, 20261.7x their median
A large number of drones became the brightest stars in the sky over the flood disaster in China's Guangxi. https://t.co/cJbvwieNly
- Aug 21, 20261.7x their median
China is unlikely to succumb to US pressure and participate in the US-led "economic D-day" of Iran—the "most devastating economic operation in history." I believe the rest of the world, including Western countries, will not fully participate either. The Trump administration failed to forge a united front against Iran among its allies at the outset of the war, and now the war is even more unpopular than it was six months ago. Washington is even less capable of forming a highly united anti-Iranian bloc. Bessent's claim that "(all US allies) either stand with the US or stand against the US" is a threat that will not work.
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 98 interactions against 579K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 28 original posts, its engagement rate beats 41% of 3,917 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 22K times each, and 0.454% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.73% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 28 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 11% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 28K interactions, about 287x its own typical post.
- What is Hu Xijin 胡锡进's engagement rate on X?
- Hu Xijin 胡锡进 (@HuXijin_GT) has an engagement rate of 0.017%, based on the median interactions across 28 original posts from the last 30 days against 579,210 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.017%, Hu Xijin 胡锡进 sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,856 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 @HuXijin_GT have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 41% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 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 @HuXijin_GT post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1 posts per day across the measured window.