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MTA engagement report

@MTA - 1.2M followers on X

Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.006%
of 1.2M followers
Per impression
0.523%
14K views on a typical post
Reach
1.12%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
71
interactions (median)
Saved
0.037%
5 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2/day
active 67% of days
Peak time
19:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 71 interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 14K times each, and 0.523% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.12% 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, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 95% carry an image or video, 32% are part of a thread and 53% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 244x its own typical post.

Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026. Recurring tag: #newprofilepic.

Compared with accounts its own size

MTA's engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 32% 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 0.006%, MTA sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,152 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,152 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 Friday 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: 19:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 19:00 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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Friday
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 video95% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link53% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 95% 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.
  • 53% 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 228 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

  • Aug 4, 2026244x their median

    the express train passing you while you're on the local https://t.co/bjNLRF4f9Q

    15K1.6K176327510K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 202699x their median

    Headed to the Javits Center for Anime NYC? Take public transit to get there! If you’re cosplaying on your commute, tag us and we’ll reshare our favorites 🫶 https://t.co/OzKhcQveLB

    6.1K710722091.5M viewsView on X
  • Sep 17, 202649x their median

    when my subway crush gets off a stop earlier than me after I imagined our whole life together https://t.co/XKTVS872wr

    3.1K3064676142K viewsView on X
  • Oct 21, 202643x their median

    The MTA is proposing a new 125 Street Subway, which would extend west from the future 125 St/Lexington Av Q station. The project would connect existing subway lines—including the Second Avenue Subway—and bus routes along the corridor. Learn more about this project at a public scoping meeting; we're hosting two virtual sessions on October 22, and one in-person session on October 27. Register for a session and get all the details: https://t.co/bjRcaEpZ0D

    2.6K183111153416K viewsView on X
  • Oct 8, 202642x their median

    Here are just some of the items you can get at our Memorabilia & Collectibles Pop-Up Shop 👀 The sale runs today and tomorrow (October 8-9) from 9am - 2pm at 23 Avenue X, right next to the Bay 50 St station on the D line 🚇 https://t.co/9LWaikHHOH

    2.7K1354999293K viewsView on X
  • Oct 20, 202641x their median

    It’s Champions Night! 🏆🏀 #NewProfilePic https://t.co/fmjMJwed7F

    2.5K38312928K viewsView on X
  • Sep 24, 202640x their median

    Our Memorabilia & Collectibles Pop-Up Shop is back! This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to purchase pieces of New York City history 🚇 DETAILS: 🗓️ October 8 and 9 from 9 am - 2 pm 📍 23 Avenue X, Brooklyn, NY 11223 Learn more: https://t.co/lLRU5y2gdc https://t.co/eA5ovWWtwW

    2.5K1913770301K viewsView on X
  • Aug 5, 202636x their median

    We’re auctioning a limited number of MetroCard Vending Machines and MetroCard Express Machines! The auction is now open and offers must be received by Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 8 pm EST. Learn more and bid on our website: https://t.co/kT7DtXrnDJ https://t.co/RMR8AALRCS

    2.1K1701031671.4M viewsView on X
  • Sep 10, 202629x their median

    Who needs a folding phone when we’ve got bending buses https://t.co/EQHZy3NTDA

    1.8K178473563K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 202622x their median

    Fly high, Dolly Parton 🦋 The legendary musician was a part of MetroCard history! In 2022, we released 50,000 limited-edition MetroCards honoring the release of her album, Diamonds & Rhinestones: The Greatest Hits Collection, in partnership with Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, and Dolly Records.

    1.4K1559231K 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

#newprofilepic

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 71 interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 14K times each, and 0.523% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.12% 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, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 95% carry an image or video, 32% are part of a thread and 53% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 244x its own typical post.

What is MTA's engagement rate on X?
MTA (@MTA) has an engagement rate of 0.006%, based on the median interactions across 19 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,213,325 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.006%, MTA sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,152 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 @MTA have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @MTA post?
Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.

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