Google Students engagement report
@googlestudents - 443K followers on X
Measured over 14 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 34 interactions against 443K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 14 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 3,774 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 5.5K times each, and 0.605% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.25% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.73 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 14 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 29% are part of a thread and 29% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 136 interactions, about 4.0x its own typical post.
Measured over 14 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Google Students's engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 38% 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 0.008%, Google Students sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,759 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 | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.4% |
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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 98K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
Best tweets
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- Aug 17, 20262.7x their median
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- Jul 24, 20262.6x their median
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- Jul 28, 20261.8x their median
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- Jul 22, 20261.8x their median
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- Aug 24, 20261.7x their median
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- Jul 21, 20261.6x their median
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- Aug 13, 2026
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- Aug 7, 2026
Last week, we celebrated International Intern Day across Google offices worldwide! From fun carnival games to community-building activities, the festivities recognized the incredible impact our interns make every single day. Three Google interns — Vicky (Sunnyvale), Gautam (New York), and Vivian (San Francisco) — took us along for all the action!
- Jul 29, 2026
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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 34 interactions against 443K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 14 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 3,774 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 5.5K times each, and 0.605% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.25% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.73 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 14 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 29% are part of a thread and 29% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 136 interactions, about 4.0x its own typical post.
- What is Google Students's engagement rate on X?
- Google Students (@googlestudents) has an engagement rate of 0.008%, based on the median interactions across 14 original posts from the last 30 days against 442,520 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.008%, Google Students sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,759 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 @googlestudents have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @googlestudents post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.73 posts per day across the measured window.