WNDU engagement report
@16NewsNow - 88K followers on X
Measured over 56 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 2 interactions against 88K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 56 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 16,684 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 1.0K times each, and 0.193% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.17% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 56 posts sampled, 91% carry an image or video and 45% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 21 interactions, about 11x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #encore, #entertainment, #health.
Measured over 56 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 26, 2026. Recurring tags: #encore, #entertainment, #health.
Compared with accounts its own size
WNDU's engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (16,684 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 10% 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 0.002%, WNDU sits below the 10th percentile of the 166,989 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.022%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.003% |
| 25th percentile | 0.022% |
| 50th percentile | 0.13% |
| 75th percentile | 0.613% |
| 90th percentile | 2.36% |
| 99th percentile | 82.6% |
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 22:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 91% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 45% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 91% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 45% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 163 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below the same accounts' other posts.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Sep 20, 202611x their median
FINAL: No. 3 Notre Dame 27, Michigan State 10 ☘️ Irish improve to 3-0 on the season and have now won 13 straight 🏈 Notre Dame fans, how are you feeling after the rivalry win? https://t.co/sFjBNAx2rv
- Aug 26, 202610x their median
Celebrating baby and mama! 👩🍼 The WNDU team spent weeks preparing this surprise baby shower for Lauren Moss. We are all so excited for her and wish her family the absolute best as they prepare for the sweetest snuggles. 💜 https://t.co/yaJkhNZuSs
- Sep 20, 20269.5x their median
BREAKING UPDATE: Two people, including a police officer, were injured in a shooting near Eddy Street Commons. MORE INFO >> https://t.co/AjbotDHq6f https://t.co/4GOUWTzPeb
- Sep 20, 20269.5x their median
Here's what we know so far about a reported shooting tonight near Notre Dame's campus: https://t.co/DRvoEDQlsN
- Aug 26, 20267.0x their median
Iconic actor Tim Curry, known for "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," "IT," and so many other classic films has died at 80. 🖤 STORY >> https://t.co/2TBoynTROC https://t.co/p5Jo81HwH1
- Aug 25, 20266.0x their median
Reactions are pouring in after Dolly Parton, a truly iconic public figure, died. 💔 https://t.co/br0DCZAS8n
- Sep 20, 20265.5x their median
South Bend police are investigating a late-night shooting on Bissell Street that left three people injured—the second shooting incident in the city within hours. STORY >> https://t.co/KhRx8VvSzj https://t.co/qiPabCUM5A
- Sep 22, 20265.0x their median
It’s officially fall, y’all! 🍂 Are you ready for cooler weather, or wishing summer ☀️ would stick around a little longer? 👇 https://t.co/u8juTavrWz
- Aug 27, 20265.0x their median
St. Joseph’s Church in Mishawaka in undergoing a fully funded renovation to preserve the 130-year-old landmark, with exterior work nearing completion. STORY >> https://t.co/dZGifyM7Wl https://t.co/b9YMbLxdGg
- Aug 26, 20265.0x their median
Remembering Dolly Parton https://t.co/fa8Ux7AiYF
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 2 interactions against 88K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 56 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 16,684 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 1.0K times each, and 0.193% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.17% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 56 posts sampled, 91% carry an image or video and 45% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 21 interactions, about 11x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #encore, #entertainment, #health.
- What is WNDU's engagement rate on X?
- WNDU (@16NewsNow) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 56 original posts from the last 30 days against 88,243 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, WNDU sits below the 10th percentile of the 166,989 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 @16NewsNow have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (16,684 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% 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 @16NewsNow post?
- Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.97 posts per day across the measured window.