The Weeknd News engagement report
@NewsWeeknd - 235K followers on X
Measured over 37 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 10, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 467 interactions against 235K followers, an engagement rate of 0.199%. Measured over 37 original posts, its engagement rate beats 63% of 6,874 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 12K times each, and 3.95% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.03% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 37 posts sampled, 89% carry an image or video, 19% are part of a thread and 5% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 14K interactions, about 30x its own typical post.
Measured over 37 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 10, 2026. Recurring tag: #ザ・ウィークエンド.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Weeknd News's engagement rate beats 63% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 82% 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 0.199%, The Weeknd News sits above the 50th percentile of the 66,536 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.1% to 0.5%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.016% |
| 50th percentile | 0.1% |
| 75th percentile | 0.5% |
| 90th percentile | 2.09% |
| 99th percentile | 119.7% |
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 Thursday 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 | 89% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 5% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 89% 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.
- 5% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 181 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
- Jan 8, 202230x their median
Out of Time.... perfection.
- Aug 31, 202610x their median
Kylian Mbappé vibing to The Weeknd at the After Hours Til Dawn Tour. https://t.co/4pUQ3SrUdz
- Aug 27, 20268.2x their median
The Weeknd’s “Kiss Land” has re-entered the US Apple Music R&B chart’s top 50 at #48, nearly 13 years after its release. It is currently charting higher than other projects like “Dawn FM” and “My Dear Melancholy,”. https://t.co/tW6iDCMjt4
- Sep 5, 20266.8x their median
The Weeknd performed “Adaptation” in Lisbon tonight. 💚 https://t.co/xHtzQfbvnP
- Sep 6, 20264.8x their median
The Weeknd’s “Reminder” has surpassed 1.5 billion streams on Spotify. https://t.co/ICM735zZXi
- Sep 2, 20263.3x their median
The Weeknd’s ‘Kiss Land’ has entered the Spain Apple Music Album Chart for the first time ever. https://t.co/RObfIhktkJ
- Sep 6, 20263.3x their median
Goodbye, Europe! The record-breaking European leg of The Weeknd’s After Hours Til Dawn Tour has officially come to an end. https://t.co/4eWCHOpcJZ
- Sep 6, 20263.2x their median
The Weeknd performed “Pretty” in Lisbon. https://t.co/SX9s3Zh72o
- Aug 29, 20262.8x their median
Wanderlust in Madrid 💚 https://t.co/Ic1ylnAC0Y
- Aug 26, 20262.5x their median
“After Hours” CD with “In Heaven” https://t.co/HAc3npY6mS https://t.co/m65No1n2Ck
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 467 interactions against 235K followers, an engagement rate of 0.199%. Measured over 37 original posts, its engagement rate beats 63% of 6,874 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 12K times each, and 3.95% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.03% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 37 posts sampled, 89% carry an image or video, 19% are part of a thread and 5% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 14K interactions, about 30x its own typical post.
- What is The Weeknd News's engagement rate on X?
- The Weeknd News (@NewsWeeknd) has an engagement rate of 0.199%, based on the median interactions across 37 original posts from the last 30 days against 234,666 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.199%, The Weeknd News sits above the 50th 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 @NewsWeeknd have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 63% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 @NewsWeeknd post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.9 posts per day across the measured window.