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Media Watch engagement report

@ABCmediawatch - 209K followers on X

Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 6, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.04%
of 209K followers
Per impression
1.01%
8.2K views on a typical post
Reach
3.93%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
83
interactions (median)
Saved
0.109%
9 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.27/day
active 30% of days
Peak time
11:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 83 interactions against 209K followers, an engagement rate of 0.04%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 42% of 21,185 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 8.2K times each, and 1.01% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.94% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 640 interactions, about 7.7x its own typical post.

Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 6, 2026. Recurring tag: #mediawatch.

Compared with accounts its own size

Media Watch's engagement rate beats 42% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 42% 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 0.04%, Media Watch sits above the 25th percentile of the 212,805 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.025% to 0.146%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.146%
p750.697%
p902.61%
p9983.1%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 212,805 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,448 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 percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.146%
75th percentile0.697%
90th percentile2.61%
99th percentile83.1%

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 11:00 UTC, and Monday 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: 11:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 11:00 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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Monday
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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link0% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 100% 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.
  • 0% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 160 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

  • Aug 10, 20267.7x their median

    Peta Credlin, once chief of staff to a prime minister, unearthing the scandal deep inside the Australian Bureau of Statistics. #MediaWatch https://t.co/ksBR8qi2PL

    48487501959K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 20266.6x their median

    So how did these real estate millionaires become a skint case study in the Sunday fish wrapper? #MediaWatch https://t.co/TF0A4lUZCp

    387132161355K viewsView on X
  • Sep 28, 20266.2x their median

    This exquisite look inside the brazen, day-to-day manipulation of the media is deeply uncomfortable for some of those reporters, and for the industry more broadly. #MediaWatch https://t.co/l4RCoo691N

    3671359412K viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 20264.3x their median

    News24 host James Macpherson issued a correction after mistaking an online comedy sketch for a Seven News report. #MediaWatch https://t.co/NS92Ta0NaA

    2914913215K viewsView on X
  • Aug 10, 20264.0x their median

    Camera crews and reporters from every major network, but where was the national broadcaster? #MediaWatch https://t.co/XggKpgVzd9

    2564730222K viewsView on X
  • Jun 8, 20263.7x their median

    The zenith of One Nation’s online strategy: a pseudo-South Park cartoon, now in its fourth season, pumping up Pauline and taking the piss out of everyone else. #MediaWatch https://t.co/IAtECbFLCa

    1462997621K viewsView on X
  • Aug 3, 20263.1x their median

    Seven’s Sunrise reporting two weeks ago that Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Lion of Kyiv, the stone in Putin’s shoe, had hung up his black uniform — it was a story missed by the Beeb, The New York Times, even his local Kyiv Post. #MediaWatch https://t.co/yZ262r9Eal

    2044110216K viewsView on X
  • Sep 28, 20263.0x their median

    Of course, as well as Perth’s home-town paper, the West is also stablemate to AFL rights holder Channel Seven, which has been busy minting ad dollars. #MediaWatch https://t.co/hrRW3cXq88

    97207158269K viewsView on X
  • Jun 16, 20263.1x their median

    The role of Elon Musk in the Belfast riots show, again, how his platform, X, is used to stoke outrage. #MediaWatch https://t.co/RxXskgqJI0

    1526012321K viewsView on X
  • Aug 10, 20262.7x their median

    Public confidence in the courts is a fragile thing. Justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done, especially for the wealthy and well-connected. #MediaWatch https://t.co/oP4M5Q2kD4

    16751418.0K 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.

Recurring topics

#mediawatch

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 83 interactions against 209K followers, an engagement rate of 0.04%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 42% of 21,185 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 8.2K times each, and 1.01% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.94% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 640 interactions, about 7.7x its own typical post.

What is Media Watch's engagement rate on X?
Media Watch (@ABCmediawatch) has an engagement rate of 0.04%, based on the median interactions across 19 original posts from the last 30 days against 209,390 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.04%, Media Watch sits above the 25th percentile of the 212,805 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 @ABCmediawatch have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 42% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @ABCmediawatch post?
Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.27 posts per day across the measured window.

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