News12NJ engagement report
@News12NJ - 525K followers on X
Measured over 33 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 20 interactions against 525K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 33 original posts, its engagement rate beats 19% of 3,810 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 8.3K times each, and 0.241% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.58% 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 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 33 posts sampled, 67% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 137 interactions, about 6.8x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #newjersey, #news12, #crime.
Measured over 33 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026. Recurring tags: #newjersey, #news12, #crime.
Compared with accounts its own size
News12NJ's engagement rate beats 19% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,810 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 19% 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%, News12NJ sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,852 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 | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 159.8% |
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 11:00 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 98K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
Best tweets
- Aug 27, 20266.8x their median
ICE ARRESTS: Residents and business owners in #NewBrunswick tell News 12 that recent ICE arrests are keeping people off the streets and hurting local businesses. - https://t.co/mfp1Gv8FIV https://t.co/3MUmbtg8lX
- Aug 25, 20266.2x their median
NEW FLIGHTS ✈️ New flights to France, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Luxembourg and Italy are coming to Newark. - https://t.co/18sCEQsoPG #NewarkAirport #Travel https://t.co/YvodUcRT0x
- Aug 26, 20263.1x their median
SUSPECT WANTED: New Jersey State Police is asking the public to help identify a man they say stole a sailboat from a marina in #JerseyCity. - https://t.co/rWT96ZKKWp https://t.co/nkZyNs7Smp
- Aug 26, 20263.1x their median
COST OF LIVING: What does "comfortable" cost in New Jersey? - https://t.co/PQqBBGisYE #News12NJ #Economics https://t.co/MTb5gxONw4
- Aug 24, 20261.9x their median
NJ TAX RELIEF: ANCHOR, Senior Freeze or Stay NJ? Here’s what New Jersey residents need to know about eligibility, benefit amounts, how to apply and when to expect payments ahead of the Nov. 2 deadline. #News12 #NewJersey #Anchor https://t.co/aGOXDIwJkI
- Aug 25, 20261.9x their median
DEATH THREATS: As the highly watched race for Jackson Township mayor heats up, a series of vulgar and threatening voice mails sent to the current mayor now has the attention of police. - https://t.co/x1zAIgdQZN #News12NJ #Crime https://t.co/HoSVGcpFjh
- Aug 25, 20261.8x their median
ALERT: Health officials are warning residents to remain vigilant after a raccoon tested positive for rabies in #SouthPlainfield. https://t.co/doBudoUnZN
- Aug 25, 20261.6x their median
DID YOU SEE IT? 🚀 Clear skies over the Garden State gave space enthusiasts a chance to watch a #SpaceX rocket launch early this morning. - https://t.co/AmBqQ4I6pb https://t.co/xrycJ7tQEp
- Aug 27, 20261.6x their median
WORTH IT: NJ Transit took a $4M hit on World Cup service. Its CEO says it's a win. #News12 #NewJersey https://t.co/7LwQL9pA4v https://t.co/P7jzy46ZJE
- Aug 25, 20261.5x their median
UPDATE: The body of a woman who went missing in the Delaware River after pushing a young girl to safety in Burlington County has been found. - https://t.co/e6s8DLnSlD https://t.co/Em2EnO7pWq
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 20 interactions against 525K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 33 original posts, its engagement rate beats 19% of 3,810 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 8.3K times each, and 0.241% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.58% 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 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 33 posts sampled, 67% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 137 interactions, about 6.8x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #newjersey, #news12, #crime.
- What is News12NJ's engagement rate on X?
- News12NJ (@News12NJ) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 33 original posts from the last 30 days against 524,606 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.004%, News12NJ sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,852 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 @News12NJ have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 19% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,810 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 @News12NJ post?
- Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.