APStylebook engagement report
@APStylebook - 325K followers on X
Measured over 24 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 4, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 32 interactions against 325K followers, an engagement rate of 0.01%. Measured over 24 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 6,874 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 8.7K times each, and 0.366% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.69% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.8 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 24 posts sampled, 25% carry an image or video and 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 422 interactions, about 13x its own typical post.
Measured over 24 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 4, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
APStylebook's engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 25% 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 0.01%, APStylebook sits above the 10th percentile of the 66,536 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.016%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.016% |
| 50th percentile | 0.1% |
| 75th percentile | 0.5% |
| 90th percentile | 2.09% |
| 99th percentile | 119.7% |
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 12:00 UTC, and Thursday 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 | 25% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 67% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 25% 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.
- 67% 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 348 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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
- Jul 24, 202613x their median
While everyone's up in arms about the em dash, let's not forget about the power of a well-placed semicolon. Our detailed guidance begins, "In general, use the semicolon to indicate a greater separation of thought and information than a comma can convey but less than the separation that a period implies."
- Jul 31, 20263.8x their median
When a child leaves a birthday party, do they get a goodie bag or a goody bag? Merriam-Webster says: a goody bag is a bag containing a small gift.
- Aug 28, 20263.7x their median
Use an apostrophe in bachelor’s degree, a master’s, etc., but there is no possessive in Bachelor of Arts or Master of Science. https://t.co/tDNZuvBNvP
- Jul 28, 20263.7x their median
No hyphen in most cases when writing "grade" or "grader." For example, a fourth grade student, first grader, she is in the fifth grade. Clarity is the goal, though, so do hyphenate if needed to avoid confusion, such as when combined with another ordinal number: He was the sixth fourth-grade student to win the prize; she is the 10th third-grader to join.
- Sep 2, 20263.4x their median
The preferred spelling for the capital of Nepal is Kathmandu.
- Aug 10, 20262.4x their median
AP style follows Merriam-Webster's guidance: no hyphen in preschool, even as a modifier such as preschool program or preschool standards.
- Aug 20, 20261.7x their median
Paul Jones asked on our Facebook page: “Why do some news outlets put single quotes around phrases in headlines? I thought single quotes only apply to a quote within a quote. Headlines have their own AP style, including this: Use single quote marks, never double quote marks. Check out our headlines entry for more guidance.
- Jul 31, 2026
Back-to-school time is coming. Even if you haven't seen the inside of a classroom in a very long time, get yourself the textbook you know you need. You don't need to put a brown paper grocery bag cover on it, but if you do, we'd love to see a photo. https://t.co/HzBO3qUqNu
- Aug 7, 2026
A Stylebook Online subscriber submitted an Ask the Editor question about the term "rising sophomore" back in 2019. We responded that the "rising" modifier isn't necessary to signify that a student has finished ninth grade and is headed on to 10th grade. But we don't have a Stylebook entry and several years have passed since that question. What do you think? If a student will start senior year this fall, would you say "rising senior" or just "senior"?
- Aug 14, 2026
The Stylebook suggests using descriptors to identify a fire, rather than a fire name. For example: a fast-moving fire burning in British Columbia. While local media may use the names of fires given by local agencies, the AP generally does not use those names because they are not widely known to a global audience. On some occasions, when a fire is particularly significant, the AP may use the name of the fire lower in the story. https://t.co/tG3TSROu0b
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 32 interactions against 325K followers, an engagement rate of 0.01%. Measured over 24 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 6,874 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 8.7K times each, and 0.366% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.69% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.8 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 24 posts sampled, 25% carry an image or video and 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 422 interactions, about 13x its own typical post.
- What is APStylebook's engagement rate on X?
- APStylebook (@APStylebook) has an engagement rate of 0.01%, based on the median interactions across 24 original posts from the last 30 days against 324,791 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.01%, APStylebook sits above the 10th percentile of the 66,536 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 @APStylebook have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 @APStylebook post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.8 posts per day across the measured window.