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Engagement rate

What is engagement rate?

Engagement rate measures how much of the audience that saw a post reacted to it — likes, comments, shares, saves — as a share of reach or followers. It says more about content than follower count does, and it is the number a platform’s algorithm watches when deciding whether to show the next post to anyone.

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