SFist engagement report
@SFist - 310K followers on X
Measured over 47 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 17, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 3 interactions against 310K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 47 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% of 21,185 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 2.1K times each, and 0.145% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.665% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% 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 47 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 400 interactions, about 133x its own typical post.
Measured over 47 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 17, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
SFist's engagement rate beats 6% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 8% 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 0.001%, SFist sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,925 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.146% |
| 75th percentile | 0.698% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 83.0% |
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 | 0% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 0% 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.
- 100% 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 251 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
- Sep 1, 2026133x their median
A father in Noe Valley says a Waymo robotaxi stopped within 13 feet of his two-year-old daughter when she fell in the crosswalk, nearly running her over, but Waymo claims the car wouldn’t have hit her. https://t.co/GcYB0wLGWa
- Sep 1, 2026114x their median
A lounge inside SFO’s International Terminal is being used to detain immigrants, and 25 people were held there more than three days through July with limited access to medical care, legal representation, or beds. https://t.co/hBXdRr8Jip
- Sep 2, 202687x their median
A 32-year-old Milpitas woman is accused of running down and killing her friend with her car on Friday in a bizarre incident that happened just before a third woman, also a friend, was found fatally stabbed. https://t.co/6UXYp0zALP
- Oct 11, 202658x their median
SF Mayor Daniel Lurie received harsh comments from Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman and Supervisor Jackie Fielder after he skipped a four-hour City Hall hearing on public drug use on Thursday, but then appeared in a segment on CNN discussing improving street safety in the city. https://t.co/mlhTw8oxbj
- Sep 17, 202650x their median
Governor Newsom has allowed for the fast-tracking of a new pier and ferry terminal in Berkeley, which would support electric-powered vessels serving San Francisco and potentially Larkspur, as residents voice concerns about the project. https://t.co/v64Btnru1P
- Oct 15, 202625x their median
Three years after closing all of its San Francisco stores, Nordstrom Rack will be returning to Union Square in the fall of 2027, joining a growing roster of retailers opening new locations or expanding their presence in downtown SF. https://t.co/CmLKvW0bVq
- Sep 2, 202618x their median
In a matter of weeks, you will be able to charge your phone while riding a Muni bus, as the SFMTA is getting ready to roll out a new fleet of electric buses that will offer free USB charging ports. https://t.co/gtimTrnRX3
- Oct 16, 202616x their median
A Singapore Airlines flight landed back at SFO nine hours after takeoff, cutting short what was supposed to be a 16-hour flight after a passenger became “unruly,” with witnesses claiming he screamed, kicked seats, and tried to open an emergency exit. https://t.co/b1oXj1Nvip
- Sep 14, 202616x their median
A 16-year-old Lower Nob Hill resident has been identified as the victim in SF’s first fatal overdose involving cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid estimated to be 10 times more potent than fentanyl. https://t.co/NBZop9u7VW
- Sep 2, 202615x their median
Residents near the Rockridge Trader Joe’s in Oakland have grown attached to a wild peacock named Kevin, who has roamed the neighborhood for years, inspiring peacock crossing signs and an “I Brake for Kevin” bumper magnet. https://t.co/UwNJLhyWXa
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 3 interactions against 310K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 47 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% of 21,185 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 2.1K times each, and 0.145% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.665% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% 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 47 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 400 interactions, about 133x its own typical post.
- What is SFist's engagement rate on X?
- SFist (@SFist) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 47 original posts from the last 30 days against 310,434 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, SFist sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,925 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 @SFist have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 6% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% 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 @SFist post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.57 posts per day across the measured window.