The Caravan engagement report
@thecaravanindia - 405K followers on X
Measured over 58 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 17 interactions against 405K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 58 original posts, its engagement rate beats 20% of 3,899 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 3.7K times each, and 0.46% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.913% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 58 posts sampled, 60% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.6K interactions, about 152x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #thecaravankannada, #archives, #hindutva.
Measured over 58 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #thecaravankannada, #archives, #hindutva.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Caravan's engagement rate beats 20% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 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 0.004%, The Caravan sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,701 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 | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 156.3% |
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 10:00 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% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 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% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Aug 27, 2026152x their median
Archives | The CISF has reportedly been providing Z-plus security—the heaviest the government can offer—to Mohan Bhagwat and the RSS headquarters in Nagpur since 2015. Since June 2021, Lalan Kishore Singh, a 64-year-old who has been a part of trade unions for most of his life, began a quest to find out how much money the government has been spending to provide security to the Sangh. “When RSS is not a registered organisation, then by what rules has the government been spending on it?” Singh told me. “And if the RSS is paying for the protection, how much has been spent?” Mapping the hidden structure of an unaccountable organisation. Read @singhamritaa's report: https://t.co/Krat9S2tvV #MohanBhagwat
- Aug 29, 2026120x their median
Archives | For most journalists who worked at Network18, it was a simple value proposition. Many told Sagar (@Sagar_reporter), a staff writer at The Caravan, that Reliance took care of its employees quite well in terms of salaries, medical insurance and provident funds, as long as they did what they were told. If not, the company would come after you. Two former employees said they struggled with finding jobs after leaving Network18 because the management warned potential employers against hiring them. A former associate editor said they were asked to remove “Former Network18” from their social media account because they had tweeted something that the management believed was “anti-Hindu.” Almost half a dozen staffers said their social media accounts were closely monitored by the management. “Because the ruling government is very particular about it,” the former primetime anchor told Sagar. “They live by twitter, die by twitter. Who tweets what? Which journalist tweeted what? Which journalist tweets what way? Identical tweets will be sent to PMO reporters.” Those who reported directly on and to the Prime Minister. Individuals also lost their jobs at the network for posts even vaguely critical of Modi or the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh that trained him. Unreliable News: How Reliance hollowed out Asia’s largest media conglomerate. Read the full report: https://t.co/55ZvaJFApp #Reliance #Network18 #Ambani #NarendraModi
- Aug 29, 202644x their median
Breach of Faith: The persecution of Christians in Uttar Pradesh Watch now: https://t.co/YslWj0Olu2 Since the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in Uttar Pradesh, hundreds of Christians have been arrested in the state, under an anti-conversion law that, critics argue, is extremely broad and places the burden of proof on the accused. These arrests provide legal cover for a Hindutva campaign to disrupt prayer services, attack pastors and vandalise churches. Reporting by Shahid Tantray (@shahidtantray)
- Aug 27, 202639x their median
Archives | From its inception, in 1925 at Nagpur, the RSS has taken inspiration from European fascism. BS Moonje, a mentor to the Sangh’s founder, KB Hedgewar, met the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and urged Hindu leaders to emulate the country’s fascist youth movements. Golwalkar praised Nazi Germany’s “race pride.” In We, or Our Nationhood Defined, he wrote, “Germany has also shown how well-nigh impossible it is for races and cultures, having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole—a good lesson for us in Hindusthan to learn and profit by.” From our July 2025 cover story, read about the hidden structure of an unaccountable organisation. A report by Amrita Singh (@singhamritaa): https://t.co/Krat9S1VGn
- Aug 26, 202617x their median
Archives | At its core, the Hindu supremacist movement, like alt-right movements around the world, is hyper-masculine. Persecution, like all social injustices, falls disproportionately on women; Muslim and Dalit women are doubly victimised. There is now mounting evidence of a robust symbiosis between patriarchy and autocracy. The auctioning of Muslim women—journalists, activists and students who have been vocal critics of the ruling regime—was a case study in how the two evils mutually reinforce each other. Read Vidya Krishnan's (@VidyaKrishnan) essay from May 2022, Hyper-femininity as resistance to Hindu supremacy: https://t.co/RcfIMKx7Uh
- Aug 26, 202616x their median
📷The demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992 by Hindu karsevaks was one of the most egregious acts of communal vandalism in independent India’s history. Read Dhirendra K Jha and Amrita Singh's (@singhamritaa) report on the Ram Mandir donations theft and Modi’s men who should answer for it: https://t.co/Qo97nJnzIF #rammandirtrust
- Aug 27, 202613x their median
"#Hindutva is often equated with BJP, the Hindu nationalist party, but this ethno-religious movement has also developed deep roots in civil society since the creation of RSS in 1925. This dataset, by revealing connections between the RSS, the mother organisation, and a myriad of more or less acknowledged subsidiaries which go much beyond what is known as the "Sangh Parivar" (the RSS family), makes it very clear: Hindu nationalist activists have reached out to almost every social and professional milieu. This network is not confined to India but is expanding globally thanks to the support of the diaspora, something this database captures also in great detail." - Christophe Jaffrelot, Research Director at SciencesPo-CERI/CNRS and co-director of the SciencesPo South Asia Programme Explore the network map here: https://t.co/OxrS9gl0Sz
- Aug 27, 202613x their median
A tribute to Kannada literature and progressive thinking. Introducing the first southern language edition of India’s most trusted longform journal. Book your copy of #TheCaravanKannada Collector’s Edition today: https://t.co/VDIngR2qKR https://t.co/sGDf6V4kDI
- Aug 26, 202612x their median
Shudra OBCs battled to defend the Mandal Commission recommendations in the early 1990s. Now, “upper” shudras who initially fought against reservations for the OBCs are demanding that they be added to the OBC lists as well. From 2018, Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd on why the Shudras are lost in today’s India: https://t.co/3S2ul4brT0
- Aug 26, 202612x their median
Archives| Bimal Patel, the man who designed the new parliament building, is materialising Narendra Modi’s “New India,” one project at a time. But what do his most significant national projects stand for, besides being a platform for the man who commissioned them? Read our June 2024 cover story, by Parni Ray, on the hostile architecture of Bimal Patel, to find out: https://t.co/LDssKEWBJF
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 17 interactions against 405K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 58 original posts, its engagement rate beats 20% of 3,899 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 3.7K times each, and 0.46% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.913% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 58 posts sampled, 60% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.6K interactions, about 152x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #thecaravankannada, #archives, #hindutva.
- What is The Caravan's engagement rate on X?
- The Caravan (@thecaravanindia) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 58 original posts from the last 30 days against 405,009 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.004%, The Caravan sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,701 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 @thecaravanindia have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 20% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter 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 @thecaravanindia post?
- Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.93 posts per day across the measured window.