CTV News Toronto engagement report
@CTVToronto - 704K followers on X
Measured over 80 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 12 interactions against 704K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 80 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% of 21,185 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 4.6K times each, and 0.26% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.655% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 80 posts sampled, 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 947 interactions, about 79x its own typical post.
Measured over 80 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026. Recurring tag: #breaking.
Compared with accounts its own size
CTV News Toronto's engagement rate beats 15% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 18% 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 0.002%, CTV News Toronto sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,349 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.146% |
| 75th percentile | 0.696% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 83.1% |
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 00:00 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 | 3% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 98% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 3% 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.
- 98% 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 106 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 1, 202679x their median
For the first time in six years, the Port of Churchill shipped Canadian grain to Europe https://t.co/MVEejD0qI1
- Sep 1, 202645x their median
‘A great time to be a Liberal’: PM Carney sweeps all three byelections, holds onto majority https://t.co/6NXcld7qW6
- Aug 24, 202624x their median
#BREAKING: Canada to announce retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. on Tuesday, sources tell CTV News. Live updates here. https://t.co/yj24rZg98K
- Sep 10, 202621x their median
Trade deal with U.S. would have ‘destroyed our economy from top to bottom,’ Doug Ford says https://t.co/FuBOCpwro7
- Aug 24, 202615x their median
Toronto mayor says Ford must be focused on Trump and not ripping up bike lanes https://t.co/RkisGcsvuq
- Aug 31, 202615x their median
Suspect made anti-Sikh utterances, racial slurs before before stabbing victim near waterfront: Toronto police https://t.co/eH0huhPj9L
- Sep 11, 202614x their median
Ontario woman upset to find blackberries from the U.S. labelled as ‘Product of Canada’ https://t.co/qFBS4tGjAY
- Aug 31, 202613x their median
Blue Rodeo's Greg Keelor says 'Lake Ontario' lyric now an anti-Trump rallying cry https://t.co/RnEcDsWiop
- Sep 11, 202612x their median
Olivia Chow wants to make the TTC free after 10 paid rides a week https://t.co/Njz7o9XJcn
- Sep 11, 202611x their median
Doug Ford says Canada walked away from ‘absolutely terrible’ trade deal as he announces expanded tariff support https://t.co/KedKOx15oX
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
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 12 interactions against 704K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 80 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% of 21,185 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 4.6K times each, and 0.26% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.655% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 80 posts sampled, 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 947 interactions, about 79x its own typical post.
- What is CTV News Toronto's engagement rate on X?
- CTV News Toronto (@CTVToronto) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 80 original posts from the last 30 days against 704,169 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, CTV News Toronto sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,349 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 @CTVToronto have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 15% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter 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 @CTVToronto post?
- Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.67 posts per day across the measured window.