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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

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.043%
of 704K followers
Per impression
0.89%
34K views on a typical post
Reach
4.80%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
300
interactions (median)
Saved
0.03%
10 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.33/day
active 23% of days
Peak time
12:00 UTC
Monday

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%.

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p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.431%
p902.10%
p99160.7%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,261 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,137 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 percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.431%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.7%

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.

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: 12:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 12:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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
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 5%Busiest day: Monday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%229K
Monday0%284K
Tuesday-2%273K
Wednesday-1%250K
Thursday-2%243K
Friday-3%251K
Saturday+3%226K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

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  • 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

    1.0K122342791K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    82565251196K viewsView on X
  • 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

    781109191440K viewsView on X
  • 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

    81158211456K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    7296355464K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    7982981077K viewsView on X
  • 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

    750382019184K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    6063618153K viewsView on X
  • 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

    5214110938K 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.

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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.

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