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ABC 7 Chicago engagement report

@ABC7Chicago - 861K followers on X

Measured over 138 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0%
of 861K followers
Per impression
0.047%
4.3K views on a typical post
Reach
0.49%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
2
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
4.6/day
active 17% of days
Peak time
20:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 2 interactions against 861K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 138 original posts, its engagement rate beats 3% of 20,444 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 4.3K times each, and 0.047% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.495% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 138 posts sampled, 12% carry an image or video and 99% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 101 interactions, about 51x its own typical post.

Measured over 138 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

ABC 7 Chicago's engagement rate beats 3% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 3% 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 under 0.001%, ABC 7 Chicago sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,956 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,956 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 20:00 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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 20:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 20:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video12% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link99% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 12% 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.
  • 99% 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 169 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 24, 202651x their median

    The White Sox and the Cubs both won their games Thursday, securing a 2026 MLB playoff berth for each of the Chicago teams. https://t.co/bjmYGgyZAR https://t.co/I8MDhrL547

    8413316.3K viewsView on X
  • Sep 24, 202619x their median

    The White Sox became the first team to follow consecutive 100-loss seasons by reaching the playoffs, clinching at least an AL wild-card berth with win No. 82 this year. https://t.co/luSgDawYRy

    343104.9K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202615x their median

    Chicago State University kicked off a new chapter in its history Saturday, taking the field for its first-ever college football game as it opened its inaugural season at SeatGeek Stadium against Roosevelt University. https://t.co/Li7wmYC3Th https://t.co/N2RLFDkXyf https://t.co/X2QnGEcPWw

    235014.3K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202611x their median

    We have a new Miss USA, and she is making history. Justus Kelley, 31, is the first mom and married woman to win the pageant. https://t.co/QeZi0BAnjO

    152318.3K viewsView on X
  • Sep 24, 202610x their median

    Nearly half a million people across the world could lose their lives by February due to El Niño-driven extreme heat, according to a sobering new report. https://t.co/wHSdadJysx

    838115K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20269.5x their median

    - Andrew Benintendi had all three of his team's hits with his sixth-inning home run being the difference as the Chicago White Sox beat the Minnesota Twins 3-2 Saturday afternoon. https://t.co/OQPt5O83Rf

    190004.6K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20269.0x their median

    In an effort to accelerate power restoration work, ComEd dispatched more than 60 employees to northwest Indiana on Saturday to assist NIPSCO crews. Residents across northwest Indiana hope additional utility crews from ComEd will help speed up power restoration efforts as thousands continue to cope with extended outages caused by severe storms on Aug. 11. https://t.co/bEkkah447H https://t.co/1eCblLxL4B

    161103.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20267.5x their median

    U.S. officials say British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported back to the United Kingdom. https://t.co/dZrd5heAa9

    80616.0K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20267.0x their median

    - Pete Crow-Armstrong homered three times and drove in six runs, helping the Cubs beat Sal Stewart and the Cincinnati Reds 17-5 on Saturday. https://t.co/atRgOFunSx

    130105.2K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20266.5x their median

    Chicago State University kicked off a new chapter in its history Saturday, taking the field for its first-ever college football game as it opened its inaugural season at SeatGeek Stadium against Roosevelt University. https://t.co/tdyZ64F4Yn

    121007.3K viewsView on X

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 2 interactions against 861K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 138 original posts, its engagement rate beats 3% of 20,444 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 4.3K times each, and 0.047% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.495% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 138 posts sampled, 12% carry an image or video and 99% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 101 interactions, about 51x its own typical post.

What is ABC 7 Chicago's engagement rate on X?
ABC 7 Chicago (@ABC7Chicago) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 138 original posts from the last 30 days against 860,927 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At under 0.001%, ABC 7 Chicago sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,956 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 @ABC7Chicago have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 3% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @ABC7Chicago post?
Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.6 posts per day across the measured window.

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