Alternative News engagement report
@AlternatNews - 158K followers on X
Measured over 53 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 179 interactions against 158K followers, an engagement rate of 0.115%. Measured over 53 original posts, its engagement rate beats 56% of 20,444 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 4.4K times each, and 4.07% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.78% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 53 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 6% are part of a thread and 6% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 23K interactions, about 131x its own typical post.
Measured over 53 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Alternative News's engagement rate beats 56% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 81% 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 0.115%, Alternative News sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 07:00 UTC, and Sunday 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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 6% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 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.
- 6% 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 485 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
- Sep 22, 2026131x their median
Zelensky’s dogs did not expect this. A gun. When capturing another unlucky man to die for Ursula Leyen, his friends started to help, without success. Then a man with a handgun turned up. Ukrainians know their part of the devilish bargain. Weakening Russia with 1. money from EU and 2. humans from Ukraine.
- Apr 28, 202492x their median
Putin: “Sometimes it seems to me that if tomorrow USA tells the EU ‘we’ve decided to hang all of you’, the EU just ask whether they can use EU ropes. Even then they lose, because USA is unlikely to miss such a large order for their textile industry”.🤣🤣 https://t.co/Ptrg1uYGxo
- Sep 21, 202641x their median
Ukraine tried to stop the election in Moscow with 500 drones. It failed. The response by Russia came the next night. A strike on Zaporozhye has left a large shopping center engulfed in flames. FAFO. Never start a new kind of war, if the enemy is better at it. https://t.co/Bo830pAom3
- Sep 22, 202640x their median
“My brother has cancer. A month after surgery, they mobilized him—even though he is supposed to be undergoing chemotherapy.” “My colleague, a scientist who is legally entitled to an exemption from mobilization, was grabbed off the street by draft officers and is now being held by force at a draft center.” “My sister’s husband, a father of four, was forcibly mobilized. They have already taken him to a training camp.” These are the messages that keep landing in my inbox. Ordinary Ukrainians write to me about relatives caught in the machinery of state coercion, all of it wrapped in lofty slogans about patriotic duty to Mother Ukraine and accompanied by the ritual cries of “We stand with Ukraine” from our Western “friends.” These people are desperate. They do not know whom to appeal to. They do not know what to do. The Ukrainian state is not merely deaf and mute to their pain. It seems to mock it. And every time I read another one of these messages, then open social media and see yet another Western “Slava Ukraini” enthusiast—someone who discovered Ukraine sometime in 2022, slapped a flag on his avatar, and never looked much further—I feel a surge of rage. Because they do not read these messages. They do not see the real Ukrainians behind the slogans. And they have no idea what these avatars, hashtags, and righteous declarations help sanctify. It is a form of modern servitude carried out in the name of militarized nationalism: a system that devours its own people, strips them of agency over their own lives and bodies, and compels them to kill and to die against their will. If you really stand with Ukraine, you must Stand Against Forced Mobilization in Ukraine.
- Sep 19, 202611x their median
Ukraine is losing 27000 soldiers a month - Poland This is one of them. He cannot win. Choices: Kicked in the face or exploding inside a Russian FAB blast. https://t.co/LhnZXsnqVY
- Sep 19, 202610x their median
Iran has no planes, so is using drones to down US planes and helicopters. Iran has officially announced a fleet of drones equipped with guided air-to-air missiles. F-35 and F-16 fighter jets will face a swarm of drones instead of a single missile. The drones release the seeking missiles when close to a plane. Russia already has these in operation. Russian and Iranian drone collaboration works.
- Sep 20, 20266.7x their median
Slovakian PM Fico confirms the figures quoted by Polish PM Tusk. Ukraine is losing 27,000 men every month. 900 a day, 324,000 per year. They cannot sustain that, even if Europe pays Zelensky more. https://t.co/JNmDVz1Jec
- Sep 20, 20266.1x their median
Women club together and attack Zelensky’s dogs. They withdraw. Ukrainians know the war is lost and to them it feels like dying in 1945. Futile. Hitler did not surrender and neither does Zelensky. The end will come. https://t.co/2exXhMG8Lm
- Sep 20, 20264.6x their median
EU will not recognize the Russian Elections - The Guardian The European Commission declares that voting in occupied Ukrainian regions is "another blatant violation of international law". EU "does not and will never recognise" those elections or their results. Actually, the EU prefers if no elections are being held in Ukraine. That is democracy in action, they say. 🤡🤡🤡
- Sep 19, 20264.0x their median
Russia is destroying the rail infrastructure. Not the rails (they are easily repaired) but the irreplaceable wide gauge locomotives. Ukraine had it. Attacking civilian targets was their mistake. https://t.co/tS7brooXiO
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 179 interactions against 158K followers, an engagement rate of 0.115%. Measured over 53 original posts, its engagement rate beats 56% of 20,444 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 4.4K times each, and 4.07% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.78% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 53 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 6% are part of a thread and 6% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 23K interactions, about 131x its own typical post.
- What is Alternative News's engagement rate on X?
- Alternative News (@AlternatNews) has an engagement rate of 0.115%, based on the median interactions across 53 original posts from the last 30 days against 158,402 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.115%, Alternative News sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,261 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 @AlternatNews have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 56% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @AlternatNews post?
- Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.1 posts per day across the measured window.