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Calcutta Times engagement report

@Calcutta_Times - 281K followers on X

Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 7, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 281K followers
Per impression
0.418%
478 views on a typical post
Reach
0.17%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
2
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.33/day
active 60% of days
Peak time
03:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 2 interactions against 281K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 4% of 6,874 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 478 times each, and 0.418% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.17% 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, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 12 interactions, about 6.0x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #calcuttatimes, #calcutatimes, #kolkata.

Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 7, 2026. Recurring tags: #calcuttatimes, #calcutatimes, #kolkata.

Compared with accounts its own size

Calcutta Times's engagement rate beats 4% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 26% 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 0.001%, Calcutta Times sits below the 10th percentile of the 66,128 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.016%.

p100.002%
p250.016%
p50 (median)0.1%
p750.499%
p902.09%
p99119.9%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 66,128 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 57,111 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 percentile0.499%
90th percentile2.09%
99th percentile119.9%

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 03:00 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: 03:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 03:00 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 link13% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 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.
  • 13% 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 251 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

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 3, 20266.0x their median

    Mahanayak 100 ✨ Pick up today’s edition of The Calcutta Times and celebrate the legend, Uttam Kumar — the man who became an icon and continues to inspire generations. 🖤 #UttamKumar #Mahanayak100 #100YearsOfUttamKumar #BengaliCinema #CalcuttaTimes https://t.co/f0VuW2ZLsI

    9300521 viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 20265.5x their median

    Today’s P1: #Dev and #Subhashree speak about their fresh equation during a live session with fans; Speaking at an event in Nepal, #manishakoirala urges people to stand in solidarity with flood-affected Nepal, and more . . . #CalcuttaTimes #bengalifilm desu7 kolkata] https://t.co/8MVgNHASdk

    10010719 viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 20264.0x their median

    Today’s P1: #MirabaiChanu credits coach Vijay Sharma for being her guide and father figure. This #Teachers'Day, we spoke to city celebs about the light-hearted memories they still carry from their school years, and more. #MirabaiChanu #CalcuttaTimes https://t.co/g1odVtvvUz

    7100777 viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 20264.0x their median

    Today’s P1: From Pakeezah finding its way back to the big screen to Mahanayak Uttam Kumar at 100, and more #CalcutaTimes #mahanayakuttamkumarat100 #centenary #KolkataNews https://t.co/POl70AHudI

    7100524 viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 20262.5x their median

    Today's P1: On the set with Srijit Mukherji, an adda about gaan-bajna, khawa-dawa and more https://t.co/a5g2jUWLB4

    5000721 viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 20262.0x their median

    Today's P1: From Shubha Mudgal being in the city for Debojyoti Mishra’s musical tribute to filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh to why Kolkata is living the flavours of the South and more Tap the link in our bio to read #CalcuttaTimes #Kolkata #KolkataNews #ShubhaMudgal https://t.co/lImjUcxBsU

    40004.2K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20262.0x their median

    Four years away from acting didn’t take Kunal Kapoor away from cinema. 🎬 The actor says the gap gave him time to focus on storytelling and write three scripts of his own. Tap the link in our stories to read [Kunal Kapoor, Kunal Kapoor interview, Vishwambhara, Lambodhara] https://t.co/AYnD4pCefT

    4000444 viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 20261.5x their median

    Today’s P1: From Sourav Ganguly finally saying yes to his biopic to Jaaved Jaaferi on Micheal Jackson and more Read: https://t.co/Tfmw68Wnvs #SouravGanguly, #biopic #JaavedJaaferi, #MichaelJackson #CalcuttaTimes https://t.co/mBubcWPJvm

    3000783 viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20261.5x their median

    From after-work football and box cricket to running and casual golf, the city is combining movement with fun and socialising. On National Sports Day, we explore how this is reshaping leisure, connection and everyday fitness. https://t.co/NI6Cj0IBr8

    3000302 viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20261.5x their median

    Today's P1: #TillotamaShome reflects on her roles and why cinema should trust audiences to find their own answers; #ErlingHaaland new buzz cut is sending fans into a frenzy; #TukaramMundhe, the man, the myth, the meme Read: https://t.co/Tfmw68VPFU . . . #CalcuttaTimes https://t.co/THQa9PuoG0

    3000356 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

#calcuttatimes#calcutatimes#kolkata#biopic#jaavedjaaferi

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 2 interactions against 281K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 4% of 6,874 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 478 times each, and 0.418% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.17% 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, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 12 interactions, about 6.0x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #calcuttatimes, #calcutatimes, #kolkata.

What is Calcutta Times's engagement rate on X?
Calcutta Times (@Calcutta_Times) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 280,967 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, Calcutta Times sits below the 10th percentile of the 66,128 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 @Calcutta_Times have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 4% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% 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 @Calcutta_Times post?
Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.

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