9News Australia engagement report
@9NewsAUS - 1.1M followers on X
Measured over 2 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 9, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 2 original posts 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 47 interactions against 1.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Posts are seen about 14K times each, and 0.331% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.29% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.07 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 2 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 50% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.3K interactions, about 28x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #9news, #breaking, #exclusive. Only 2 original posts 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 2 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 9, 2026. Recurring tags: #9news, #breaking, #exclusive.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.004%, 9News Australia sits above the 10th percentile of the 160,730 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 | 0.128% |
| 75th percentile | 0.606% |
| 90th percentile | 2.33% |
| 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 05:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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 | 50% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 50% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 50% 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.
- 50% 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 189 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
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
- Nov 13, 202528x their median
#BREAKING: The Liberal Party has officially abandoned its target of net zero emissions by 2050 after the policy caused a staggering rift among MPs. #9News READ MORE: https://t.co/iwL23x3VPu https://t.co/cn6ljp23tq
- Nov 17, 202517x their median
#BREAKING: Champion Australian cyclist and Paralympic gold medallist Paige Greco has died at the age of 28. The young athlete sadly died in her Adelaide home after suffering a sudden medical episode, with her mother saying "her kindness, her determination and her warmth touched our family every single day." #9News READ MORE: https://t.co/qY501B518l
- Apr 1, 202612x their median
"The months ahead may not be easy, I want to be upfront about that." Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has used a rare national address to urge Australians not to panic about fuel shortages and "do their bit" to help each other out. #9News https://t.co/jQENLIG3qp
- Dec 31, 202510x their median
Our beautiful country has welcomed the New Year with another spectacular display of fireworks across our shores. ✨💌 Millions across Australia and the globe watched the magical sparkles light up the sky as we entered 2026 with renewed hope and joy. #9News https://t.co/6d6oiBT9sr
- May 13, 20265.7x their median
#EXCLUSIVE: Penrith coach Ivan Cleary is set to make a major call on his future with the club. #9News https://t.co/jIwXCdiDEC
- May 27, 20264.9x their median
A team of 40 specialists are racing against the clock and rising waters to rescue seven villagers from a flooded cave in Laos' Xaisaomboun Province. Authorities are unsure if those inside are still alive. #9News https://t.co/mYBDApwOeY
- Jul 20, 20264.9x their median
#BREAKING: Former Roosters star Joey Manu has been photographed with PNG Chief's Michael Chammas. The rugby union convert is believed to be the club's next high-profile target as he tours the incoming franchise's facilities in Port Moresby. @Danny_Weidler #9News https://t.co/4yp2tyXdhr
- Apr 15, 20264.7x their median
Popular online streamer and prominent "looksmaxxer", Clavicular, has been hospitalised following a suspected drug overdose in Miami. #9News READ MORE: https://t.co/r8fwZJxXnZ https://t.co/CktAR3e8iu
- Feb 11, 20263.4x their median
#BREAKING: The Liberal leadership spill is officially on, with Angus Taylor declaring he will challenge Sussan Ley for the top job. #9News LATEST: https://t.co/Vjw5sltpwo https://t.co/3l1hirVzOv
- May 21, 20263.4x their median
The man is accused of intentionally driving his Tesla Cybertruck into a lake to test the vehicle's 'wade mode' feature. #9News https://t.co/go8wF2lqvd
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 47 interactions against 1.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Posts are seen about 14K times each, and 0.331% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.29% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.07 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 2 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 50% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.3K interactions, about 28x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #9news, #breaking, #exclusive. Only 2 original posts 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 9News Australia's engagement rate on X?
- 9News Australia (@9NewsAUS) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 2 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,099,572 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.004%, 9News Australia sits above the 10th percentile of the 160,730 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 @9NewsAUS have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @9NewsAUS post?
- Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.07 posts per day across the measured window.