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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

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.01%
of 325K followers
Per impression
0.366%
8.7K views on a typical post
Reach
2.69%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
32
interactions (median)
Saved
0.034%
3 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.8/day
active 57% of days
Peak time
12:00 UTC
Thursday

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%.

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p250.016%
p50 (median)0.1%
p750.5%
p902.09%
p99119.7%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 66,536 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 56,995 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.016%
50th percentile0.1%
75th percentile0.5%
90th percentile2.09%
99th percentile119.7%

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.

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: 12:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 12:00 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video25% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link67% 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."

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  • 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.

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  • 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

    9521129.8K viewsView on X
  • 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.

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  • Sep 2, 20263.4x their median

    The preferred spelling for the capital of Nepal is Kathmandu.

    86134722K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    58162011K viewsView on X
  • 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.

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  • 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

    406018.8K viewsView on X
  • 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"?

    19319210K viewsView on X
  • 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

    2510409.4K 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 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.

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