KESQ News Channel 3 engagement report
@KESQ - 66K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 22, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 3 interactions against 66K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 10% of 19,933 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 1.4K times each, and 0.217% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.11% 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, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 8% carry an image or video and 90% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 82 interactions, about 27x its own typical post.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 22, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
KESQ News Channel 3's engagement rate beats 10% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,933 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 11% 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 0.005%, KESQ News Channel 3 sits above the 10th percentile of the 201,555 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.142% |
| 75th percentile | 0.671% |
| 90th percentile | 2.53% |
| 99th percentile | 82.5% |
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 01:00 UTC, and Saturday 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 | 8% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 90% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 8% 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.
- 90% 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 217 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 19, 202627x their median
BREAKING: A 22-year-old man who gunned down a shopper at the Desert Hills Premium Outlets in Cabazon with the help of twin brothers, all of whom wanted the victim's Rolex, has been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole https://t.co/BEXGHSmv5f
- Sep 18, 20266.0x their median
Amid the worst measles outbreak in the US in decades, a surge that’s been driven largely by unvaccinated people, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received a standing ovation at the conference of the anti-vaccine advocacy group Children’s Health Defense https://t.co/T4r4g7b7HW
- Sep 19, 20265.3x their median
The Palm Springs International Airport generated $2.55 billion in total economic activity in 2025, according to a new economic impact study released by the airport. News Channel 3's Kiera McKinney has more on the impact https://t.co/Ep1gWIBF5V
- Sep 22, 20264.7x their median
More than 1,200 customers were left without power in Palm Desert Monday night https://t.co/aifpq3B8JA
- Sep 18, 20264.0x their median
A woman from a low-income family in China crossed over into Hong Kong to get to a concert. It was a trip that Beijing’s vast surveillance apparatus didn’t miss. Now her family face the prospect of losing their government benefits for splurging https://t.co/SlPksSBY2L
- Sep 19, 20262.3x their median
Many scams succeed by creating urgency and getting kids to react before they stop to question what's happening. Parents can help by teaching children to pause and ask three simple questions before clicking a link, sending money or sharing personal information
- Sep 19, 20262.3x their median
Desert Christian Academy kept its regular-season winning streak alive, bringing it up to 24, after a dominant win at home. @BlakeArthur24 and @kendallkesq have highlights, scores, and more from Week 5 of high school football https://t.co/FFT0GxpPhk
- Sep 19, 20262.3x their median
A Sikh truck driver was stabbed more than a dozen times in an unprovoked attack at a Wyoming rest stop, according to local officials, raising an alarm among Asian American advocates who are warning about inflammatory rhetoric against South Asian truckers https://t.co/S2yfSebrk6
- Sep 19, 20262.3x their median
September is Hunger Action Month, and staggering numbers show that 1 in 6 people experience food insecurity in the Coachella Valley. As Hernan Quintas reports, the FIND Regional Food Bank is finding new ways to try to help fill the gap https://t.co/rmY1dg4Ps7
- Sep 22, 20262.0x their median
WATCH: Desert Christian Academy junior wideout Jayvon Garcia earns play of the week honors for Week 5 of the high school football season. https://t.co/mdiuseqOQC
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 3 interactions against 66K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 10% of 19,933 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 1.4K times each, and 0.217% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.11% 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, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 8% carry an image or video and 90% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 82 interactions, about 27x its own typical post.
- What is KESQ News Channel 3's engagement rate on X?
- KESQ News Channel 3 (@KESQ) has an engagement rate of 0.005%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 65,508 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.005%, KESQ News Channel 3 sits above the 10th percentile of the 201,555 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 @KESQ have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 10% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,933 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 @KESQ post?
- Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.