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Londonist engagement report

@Londonist - 1.3M followers on X

Measured over 212 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 10, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 1.3M followers
Per impression
0.149%
10K views on a typical post
Reach
0.74%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
15
interactions (median)
Saved
0.02%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
7.1/day
active 87% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 15 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 212 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 6,873 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 10K times each, and 0.149% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.744% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 7.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 212 posts sampled, 9% carry an image or video and 93% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 499 interactions, about 33x its own typical post.

Measured over 212 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 10, 2026. Recurring tag: #freddiemercury.

Compared with accounts its own size

Londonist's engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,873 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 13% 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%, Londonist sits below the 10th percentile of the 66,536 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%
p750.5%
p902.09%
p99119.7%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 66,536 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 56,995 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 percentile0.5%
90th percentile2.09%
99th percentile119.7%

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 16:00 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: 16:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 16:00 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 video9% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link93% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 9% 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.
  • 93% 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 118 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 3, 202633x their median

    A giant anamorphic mural of Freddie Mercury has been painted onto the steps at Wembley Park to celebrate what would have been his 80th birthday. The tribute was created by artist Frank Styles. https://t.co/clcErmeCSN

    4028151119K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202613x their median

    Thameslink is replacing its 'ironing board' seats — will you be glad to see the (hard) back of them? https://t.co/qSL1ikm0S7

    142934656K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 202611x their median

    This Tolkien-like map is actually a tapestry from Tudor times. It's a joy to explore https://t.co/LinnJVcfP1

    135231222K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 20267.9x their median

    80 years since he was born, take a tour of London locations with a link to #FreddieMercury https://t.co/FGkStwei9t

    95240013K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20267.0x their median

    Adam Kossowski's 1965 mural on the Old Kent Road is a firm favourite of ours, although the building's in dire need of some TLC https://t.co/hMxvvQ6hfs

    74282117K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20266.9x their median

    Recognise this famous central London location from 1737? It's changed a fair bit... (answer in comments) https://t.co/It4TMoz4OZ

    86710023K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20266.8x their median

    If you could REBUILD one of London's lost buildings, which would it be and why? (We may use your answers in video!)

    32661325K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20266.6x their median

    The (re)opening date for one of London's oldest restaurants has been announced https://t.co/Hx6w4nO3ET

    83104226K viewsView on X
  • Aug 16, 20265.6x their median

    How many of these free museums have you visited? Bet we've got something on the list you've never heard of... such is London's wealth of small museums https://t.co/1SK4PLnR26

    69132018K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 20265.5x their median

    Ring this doorbell and enter a stunning library in Piccadilly - which you're free to peruse https://t.co/8qVWaBp9J0

    67133017K 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

#freddiemercury

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 15 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 212 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 6,873 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 10K times each, and 0.149% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.744% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 7.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 212 posts sampled, 9% carry an image or video and 93% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 499 interactions, about 33x its own typical post.

What is Londonist's engagement rate on X?
Londonist (@Londonist) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 212 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,348,526 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, Londonist sits below the 10th percentile of the 66,536 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 @Londonist have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,873 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 @Londonist post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 7.1 posts per day across the measured window.

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