TOI Bengaluru engagement report
@TOIBengaluru - 166K followers on X
Measured over 53 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 21, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 58 interactions against 166K followers, an engagement rate of 0.035%. Measured over 53 original posts, its engagement rate beats 39% of 15,519 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 5.5K times each, and 1.05% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.33% 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, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 53 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 11% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.9K interactions, about 32x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #bengaluru, #karnataka, #iambengaluru.
Measured over 53 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 21, 2026. Recurring tags: #bengaluru, #karnataka, #iambengaluru.
Compared with accounts its own size
TOI Bengaluru's engagement rate beats 39% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 45% 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 0.035%, TOI Bengaluru sits above the 25th percentile of the 156,396 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.022% to 0.127%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.003% |
| 25th percentile | 0.022% |
| 50th percentile | 0.127% |
| 75th percentile | 0.604% |
| 90th percentile | 2.32% |
| 99th percentile | 83.4% |
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 07:00 UTC, and Saturday 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 | 96% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 11% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 96% 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.
- 11% 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 331 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.
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
- Aug 31, 202632x their median
Do you remember seeing a minister standing next to a garbage collection vehicle, actually supervising the process? On Monday morning (starting @ 5:30 am), #Bengaluru Development Minister Krishna Byre Gowda did just that — personally overseeing garbage collection in Mallasandra and Dasarahalli to understand ground realities and how the system can be made more efficient. Leadership, quite literally, at street level.
- Sep 2, 202622x their median
No gunmen, no sycophants… On learning that their fellow commuter was Bengaluru Development minister Krishna Byre Gowda, Metro rail passengers lined up to take selfies & shake hands with him. The minister had inspected Majestic station before boarding the train. @timesofindia https://t.co/WSSx19Q3zE
- Sep 3, 202621x their median
In #Bengaluru: Slaughter & sale of meat will be prohibited across the city on Friday on account of Krishna Janmashtami, says the order from Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) 👇 https://t.co/H7EoSIRdOe
- Aug 28, 20268.3x their median
In #Bengaluru: NSG conducted a high-risk hostage rescue and counter-terrorism drill in Bengaluru, in coordination with Karnataka State Police, as part of a comprehensive capacity-building programme. The exercise included drills at Manekshaw Parade Grounds, MG Road BMRCL Metro station, Barton Centre and Public Utility Building. (📷 by TOI’s Syed Asif) @timesofindia
- Aug 29, 20267.0x their median
#Bengaluru cops SAVE man’s LIFE Assistant Sub-Inspector Sachidananda Murthy and constable Basavaraju, attached to Hoysala patrol vehicle 88, administered CPR to a man who suffered chest pain on Magadi Road. The cops then rushed him to a nearby private hospital and alerted his family. The man is now doing fine, police said. THANK YOU COPS FOR BEING THERE.👏👏 @timesofindia (📹: Fwd)
- Sep 19, 20265.7x their median
#Bengaluru property owners to pay software charges ?? “GBA is now adding a ‘software charge’ of ₹200 for residential properties and ₹1,000 for commercial buildings to the annually collected property tax. What exactly are citizens paying for? Why should people separately fund the government’s software system? Where is the legal basis, cost breakup and public accountability? Is this not looting in broad daylight?” — asked BJP state president B Y Vijayendra. @timesofindia
- Sep 16, 20265.4x their median
#Rajasthani men thrashed in #Bengaluru A crowd thrashed a group of Rajasthan men and damaged their car on Magadi Road on Wednesday night after suspecting them of trying to #kidnap a girl. The twist: the girl intervened and told the crowd they were her family, who had tracked her down & wanted her to return to Rajasthan. She said she had married a man from another caste against her family’s wishes & they had come from her. Six people, including a 9-year-old girl, were injured when the car-borne men were trying to flee. @timesofindia
- Sep 14, 20265.2x their median
Even US President Donald Trump is copying us — said #Karnataka CM DK #Shivakumar in #Bengaluru while narrating how the Congress Govt’s guarantee schemes have become a blockbuster. (President #Trump had recently pledged to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate) @timesofindia
- Sep 8, 20264.9x their median
Star Tortoises seized in #Bengaluru! #DRI officials intercepted a man in Bengaluru’s Gandhinagar on Monday and seized 180 live Indian Star Tortoises during ‘Operation Kurma’. The Schedule-I protected species were concealed in six cloth covers inside a green trolley bag. The accused allegedly collected it from Kalasipalya and was to deliver it in Majestic for Rs 10,000. @timesofindia
- Sep 8, 20264.5x their median
#Bengaluru #Bikers get a Breather! Bikes to be allowed on Airport Road flyover and E-City elevated corridor Home minister Priyank Kharge said ‘Bikers Ban’ on Kempegowda International Airport elevated road (from Sanjeevininagar Cross to Vidyashilp Junction) & Electronics City Elevated Corridor will be put on hold for now because of the confusion caused on the roads. It will be implemented in a phased manner, the minister said without giving any timeline. @timesofindia
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 58 interactions against 166K followers, an engagement rate of 0.035%. Measured over 53 original posts, its engagement rate beats 39% of 15,519 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 5.5K times each, and 1.05% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.33% 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, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 53 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 11% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.9K interactions, about 32x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #bengaluru, #karnataka, #iambengaluru.
- What is TOI Bengaluru's engagement rate on X?
- TOI Bengaluru (@TOIBengaluru) has an engagement rate of 0.035%, based on the median interactions across 53 original posts from the last 30 days against 166,183 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.035%, TOI Bengaluru sits above the 25th percentile of the 156,396 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 @TOIBengaluru have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 39% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 @TOIBengaluru post?
- Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.93 posts per day across the measured window.