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Nandan Nilekani engagement report

@NandanNilekani - 2.6M followers on X

Measured over 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.007%
of 2.6M followers
Per impression
1.04%
19K views on a typical post
Reach
0.73%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
196
interactions (median)
Saved
0.158%
30 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.03/day
active 3% of days
Peak time
08:00 UTC
Sunday

Early reading. We have captured 1 original post for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.

A typical post picks up 196 interactions against 2.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 1 original post, its engagement rate beats 58% of 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 19K times each, and 1.04% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.727% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.03 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 3% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 24K interactions, about 120x its own typical post. Only 1 original post have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

Measured over 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Nandan Nilekani's engagement rate beats 58% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count. A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.007%, Nandan Nilekani sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.434%
p902.10%
p99160.7%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,521 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,166 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.434%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.7%

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 08:00 UTC, and Sunday 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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 08:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 08:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
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%52K
08:00 UTC-4%60K
09:00 UTC-3%69K
10:00 UTC-2%72K
11:00 UTC-3%78K
12:00 UTC-2%86K
13:00 UTC-2%94K
14:00 UTC-4%97K
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
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Sunday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Sunday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%230K
Monday0%286K
Tuesday-2%276K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%244K
Friday-3%252K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Feb 24, 2025120x their median

    As mentioned in yesterday’s #MannKiBaat, I would like to nominate the following people to help strengthen the fight against obesity and spread awareness on reducing edible oil consumption in food. I also request them to nominate 10 people each so that our movement gets bigger! @anandmahindra @nirahua1 @realmanubhaker @mirabai_chanu @Mohanlal @NandanNilekani @OmarAbdullah @ActorMadhavan @shreyaghoshal @SmtSudhaMurty Collectively, let us make India fitter and healthier. #FightObesity

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  • Apr 1, 202530x their median

    The time is right for another massive unlock: Tokenisation of land assets. To understand how this can turbocharge the economy, see👇 Full video here: https://t.co/NboKoiSIXh https://t.co/JlGeBEneYn

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  • Mar 28, 202526x their median

    Energy is the next UPI! Millions of small producers will participate in the Digital Energy Grid (DEG). Full video: https://t.co/NboKoiSIXh https://t.co/o2MbSquesQ

    3.9K79837563232K viewsView on X
  • Apr 29, 202616x their median

    India doesn't need to lead the world in building the most advanced AI models. But it must lead in ensuring benefits of AI are widely shared. @rvenk and I have an op-ed in The @EconomicTimes https://t.co/yuzgkRXXWf

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  • May 24, 20259.8x their median

    In 25 years, India will have 300mn elders. It’s time for a mental reset – from making second careers possible, to recognising hours of caregiving they provide, to finding ways to keep them socially active. Sharing Rohini's op-ed in @timesofindia on how silver can be the new black! @RNP_Foundation has also commissioned a report on longevity which will come out next week. https://t.co/jQuRFx094Z

    1.5K2707338155K viewsView on X
  • Apr 7, 20257.0x their median

    Half of India'a workforce will be AI-native. What does this mean for India and the future of work in our nation?👇 Full video: https://t.co/NboKoiSb7J https://t.co/01jXy4IFDn

    695127549840K viewsView on X
  • Mar 24, 20257.0x their median

    1 million Indian start-ups by 2035! It's happening due to binary fission and an explosion of new businesses in Bharat. More here👇 https://t.co/kAKp86UuR1

    437928202139K viewsView on X
  • Mar 21, 20256.9x their median

    8️⃣8️⃣8️⃣ Presenting, #TheGreatUnlock: My thoughts on how 8 reforms across tech, capital, entrepreneurship and population-scale formalisation can help India grow at 8% and become an $8T economy by 2035! https://t.co/W6OmdbmIHj @arkam_vc @bsrinivasa

    46726359917394K viewsView on X
  • Jul 24, 20254.6x their median

    Prioritizing inclusivity in healthcare should not come at the expense of patient harm. Yet, that’s exactly what is happening. I run a maternity-care hospital and public health non-profit in India. I founded them so that more Indian women would have access to Western-style ethical and evidence-based medicine. So I have been dismayed to watch the West abandon those principles. Link below.

    7191262131145K viewsView on X
  • Mar 6, 20254.3x their median

    In 2015-16, I had anticipated the digital transformation that was then underway when I presented ‘The WhatsApp moment for banking’ in India. I am now taking a stab at predicting the next decade of transformation, on the 12th of March at 5:30pm at @arkam_vc's event at JW Marriott in Bengaluru. I will present on what are the Big Unlocks needed to drive India from 6% to 8 % growth and become an $8T economy by 2035! https://t.co/unkq7hmpYt @bsrinivasa

    6849652985K viewsView on X

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 196 interactions against 2.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 1 original post, its engagement rate beats 58% of 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 19K times each, and 1.04% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.727% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.03 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 3% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 24K interactions, about 120x its own typical post. Only 1 original post have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

What is Nandan Nilekani's engagement rate on X?
Nandan Nilekani (@NandanNilekani) has an engagement rate of 0.007%, based on the median interactions across 1 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,605,067 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.007%, Nandan Nilekani sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 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 @NandanNilekani have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 58% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count, 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 @NandanNilekani post?
Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.03 posts per day across the measured window.

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