Houston Chronicle engagement report
@HoustonChron - 689K followers on X
Measured over 80 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 689K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 80 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% of 3,936 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 2.0K times each, and 0.197% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.296% 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 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 80 posts sampled, 35% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 375 interactions, about 94x its own typical post.
Measured over 80 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Houston Chronicle's engagement rate beats 8% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,936 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 16% 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%, Houston Chronicle sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,996 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 154.7% |
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 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 54K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 56K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 45K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 82K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 99K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 102K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 103K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 89K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 84K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 78K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 54K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 239K |
| Monday | 0% | 303K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 305K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 259K |
| Thursday | -2% | 251K |
| Friday | -3% | 260K |
| Saturday | +3% | 234K |
Best tweets
- Aug 24, 202694x their median
Turkey Leg Hut returns to Washington Avenue with Harold’s Chicken for Sunday popups starting Sept. 6 through football season. https://t.co/TIm3m209SR https://t.co/NIaVeRUpay
- Aug 24, 202683x their median
Shell is selling its U.S. headquarters, asking about $325 million for the west Houston campus it has called home for more than four decades. https://t.co/wn0WvwEbNY https://t.co/hJCcBIwx9r
- Sep 1, 202651x their median
Alief ISD has opened an all-girls college-preparatory school, expanding the southwest Houston district's school-choice offerings as it confronts falling enrollment. 🔗https://t.co/kagJWLsNfa https://t.co/x7sRMvB2DG
- Aug 24, 202649x their median
The attorney general's office has still not told two rural counties if they can halt local data center construction, six months after they asked. https://t.co/GASUcNdjix https://t.co/rVOZhzaVbT
- Aug 24, 202629x their median
Residents at a Fifth Ward apartment complex have been without power and air conditioning for days as crews work to repair electrical problems at the property, said U.S. Rep. Christian Menefee in a news release Monday afternoon. https://t.co/a9mzOrRgMR https://t.co/AoFOnycH2K
- Aug 24, 202625x their median
"Me, mamá and papá," that's been Marco's world since his brother Sergio was killed. Now, his father may be the latest casualty in the country's mass deportation campaign, writes the editorial... https://t.co/hvKZFLpPpb https://t.co/KJurnqDAfA
- Sep 1, 202617x their median
Texas is spending too much energy policing books and not enough helping kids read https://t.co/7JV9EP6vDa
- Sep 1, 20269.3x their median
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said he expected corporations would soon offer contributions to Trump accounts as a standard benefit for employees. https://t.co/5zUyZhL3Gs
- Aug 24, 20267.5x their median
She is among hundreds of landowners fighting high voltage power lines on their property in the Texas Hill Country. https://t.co/5sZrIfMf9T
- Aug 24, 20266.0x their median
Nearly 25,000 Texas school voucher recipients declined the awards. Why didn't families use them? https://t.co/J1RAKLNpgm
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 4 interactions against 689K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 80 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% of 3,936 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 2.0K times each, and 0.197% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.296% 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 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 80 posts sampled, 35% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 375 interactions, about 94x its own typical post.
- What is Houston Chronicle's engagement rate on X?
- Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 80 original posts from the last 30 days against 688,663 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Houston Chronicle sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,996 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 @HoustonChron have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 8% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,936 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 @HoustonChron post?
- Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.67 posts per day across the measured window.