Only In Boston engagement report
@OnlyInBOS - 704K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 25, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 300 interactions against 704K followers, an engagement rate of 0.043%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 55% of 3,739 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 34K times each, and 0.89% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.80% 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 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 68% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.5K interactions, about 8.3x its own typical post.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 25, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Only In Boston's engagement rate beats 55% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 50% 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 0.043%, Only In Boston sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.431% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 12:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 51K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 71K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 229K |
| Monday | 0% | 284K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 273K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 250K |
| Thursday | -2% | 243K |
| Friday | -3% | 251K |
| Saturday | +3% | 226K |
Best tweets
- Aug 21, 20268.3x their median
An MBTA Orange Line shuttle bus that was supposed to take passengers to North Station accidentally drove them to STONEHAM instead Thursday morning. The driver is no longer working the shuttle service. It happened on Day 1 of the 11-day Orange Line shutdown.
- Aug 21, 20264.0x their median
Officials are warning people AND pets to stay out of the Charles River downstream of the Mass. Ave. Bridge after a potentially toxic cyanobacteria algae bloom was detected. Do NOT swim, touch the water, or let dogs drink or swim in it. https://t.co/qL2Qu7hjdC
- Aug 20, 20263.1x their median
Boston is now one of the toughest places in America for buying to beat renting. Zillow estimates a typical household needs 12.3 years just to save a 20% down payment, then another 15.1 years to break even vs. renting. Total timeline: 27.4 YEARS.
- Aug 23, 20263.1x their median
The Great Elephant Migration stretches nearly a mile along Comm Ave Mall now through September 13, featuring 100 life-size sculptures based on real wild elephants and handcrafted by artisans in South India. 🐘 https://t.co/51BWXhPj0v
- Aug 24, 20263.0x their median
How Boston is welcoming back 150,000 college students moving back into the city this week. 🤍 https://t.co/dD4rdAL8hE
- Aug 24, 20262.8x their median
Massachusetts passed the first law in the New World requiring children to learn how to read and write...in 1642. The state later became the first in the nation to pass a comprehensive education law.
- Aug 24, 20262.8x their median
Reddit was created by two college roommates from an apartment at 265 Elm Street in Somerville’s Davis Square in 2005. Today, it’s one of the 20 most-visited websites in the world.
- Aug 20, 20262.8x their median
The AMC Boston Common on Tremont Street was evacuated tonight after moviegoers reported a strong burning smell inside the theater. Boston firefighters responded and were seen inside investigating the source. 📹: @StanjewAndrones https://t.co/7bv3yqUolZ
- Aug 21, 20262.2x their median
More than 1,300 Encore Boston Harbor workers have voted 97% to authorize a strike. Workers are demanding higher wages as their current contract expires August 31. If a deal isn't reached, they're prepared to walk off the job at the Everett casino.
- Aug 23, 20261.9x their median
Boston’s iconic CITGO sign is getting closer to its comeback. The final phase of reconstruction is underway in Kenmore Square, with installation of the new sign beginning in August. The landmark is expected to light up the Boston skyline again this fall, no later than November. https://t.co/3OEh1BRHdL
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.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 300 interactions against 704K followers, an engagement rate of 0.043%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 55% of 3,739 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 34K times each, and 0.89% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.80% 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 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 68% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.5K interactions, about 8.3x its own typical post.
- What is Only In Boston's engagement rate on X?
- Only In Boston (@OnlyInBOS) has an engagement rate of 0.043%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 703,756 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.043%, Only In Boston sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,261 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 @OnlyInBOS have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 55% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @OnlyInBOS post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.