KTLA 5 Morning News engagement report
@KTLAMorningNews - 268K followers on X
Measured over 36 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 12 interactions against 268K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 36 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% 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 2.9K times each, and 0.416% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.07% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 36 posts sampled, 64% carry an image or video and 47% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.8K interactions, about 730x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #breaking, #sblxi, #breakingnews.
Measured over 36 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026. Recurring tags: #breaking, #sblxi, #breakingnews.
Compared with accounts its own size
KTLA 5 Morning News's engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 23% 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 0.004%, KTLA 5 Morning News sits above the 10th percentile of the 213,004 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 | 0.147% |
| 75th percentile | 0.698% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 82.8% |
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 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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 | 64% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 47% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 64% 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.
- 47% 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 139 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
- Oct 22, 2026730x their median
When you're reporting on the rain, and you see your cousin like @mtelles. https://t.co/zJ9w9TFMz8
- Oct 20, 202679x their median
Outrage from @LADWP customers who say their bills have tripled in recent months. @AnnieRoseNews talked to one woman whose bill is $24K. We at @KTLA invite the LADWP Board to come to talk to us about this. https://t.co/UdsnKI42hY https://t.co/hbND3ZDprg
- Oct 27, 202664x their median
#BREAKING @LAflyingcameras is in #Sky5 over Huntington Beach, where high tides have caused flooding in the area. https://t.co/mghPIzNYUc
- Sep 16, 202645x their median
Our hearts are with our colleagues at @NBCLA. This morning @FrankBuckleyTV and @JessicaHolmesTV talked to former Sky5 pilot Tim Lynn about life in a news helicopter: https://t.co/OxBGnpsvlY https://t.co/k4OWD2yrpI
- Oct 26, 202620x their median
Have an #OUTSTANDING start to your week #KTLAFamily!🎶 @KTLA @KTLAMorningNews @MeganHenderson @henrydicarlo @ktlagingerchan @richontech https://t.co/wV9RyOKPbU
- Sep 17, 202610x their median
MOVE-IN DAY 🧳 It may hurt her heart a bit but @JSarkissian is at @UCLA where students are moving in and getting settled to start their new chapter! https://t.co/ZgXZo3jWPp
- Oct 21, 20268.8x their median
CLIPPERS HOME OPENER @ericspillman is at the @IntuitDome where the @LAClippers will open their season against the @SacramentoKings. He is also donning a jersey after he heard that @ChrisKTLA and @MeganHenderson were making bets. https://t.co/x7mhngAmKU
- Sep 17, 20268.3x their median
No wonder everyone at In-N-Out are always happy! We've learned their managers make $200k! https://t.co/qp4Y9BKevc https://t.co/vYsFhLSPXO
- Aug 27, 20266.5x their median
This morning, @AnnieRoseNews, @FrankBuckleyTV and @JessicaHolmesTV discuss the abandoned house in Studio City causing issues in the neighborhood https://t.co/T3UaAp8jmZ https://t.co/WuYi1Tt59Z
- Aug 27, 20265.8x their median
This morning, @MayorOfLA called in after seeing our coverage of the abandoned house in Studio City. Read more about the story here: https://t.co/T3UaAp8jmZ https://t.co/11QdCKG7ru
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 268K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 36 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% 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 2.9K times each, and 0.416% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.07% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 36 posts sampled, 64% carry an image or video and 47% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.8K interactions, about 730x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #breaking, #sblxi, #breakingnews.
- What is KTLA 5 Morning News's engagement rate on X?
- KTLA 5 Morning News (@KTLAMorningNews) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 36 original posts from the last 30 days against 268,296 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.004%, KTLA 5 Morning News sits above the 10th percentile of the 213,004 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 @KTLAMorningNews have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 16% 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 @KTLAMorningNews post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.03 posts per day across the measured window.