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Toronto Sun engagement report

@TheTorontoSun - 427K followers on X

Measured over 60 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.002%
of 427K followers
Per impression
0.277%
2.9K views on a typical post
Reach
0.68%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
8
interactions (median)
Saved
0.035%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2/day
active 10% of days
Peak time
00:00 UTC
Saturday

A typical post picks up 8 interactions against 427K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 60 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,862 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 2.9K times each, and 0.277% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.677% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 60 posts sampled, 90% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 466 interactions, about 58x its own typical post.

Measured over 60 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Toronto Sun's engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,862 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 21% 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 0.002%, Toronto Sun sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,350 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.437%
p902.10%
p99159.9%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,350 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,576 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 percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.437%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile159.9%

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 00:00 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.

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: 00:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 00:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%52K
01:00 UTC-2%53K
02:00 UTC-3%51K
03:00 UTC-4%55K
04:00 UTC-6%44K
05:00 UTC-4%43K
06:00 UTC-4%49K
07:00 UTC-5%53K
08:00 UTC-4%62K
09:00 UTC-3%71K
10:00 UTC-2%74K
11:00 UTC-3%80K
12:00 UTC-2%88K
13:00 UTC-2%97K
14:00 UTC-4%100K
15:00 UTC-2%103K
16:00 UTC-3%100K
17:00 UTC-3%93K
18:00 UTC-2%87K
19:00 UTC-2%82K
20:00 UTC-1%76K
21:00 UTC-1%67K
22:00 UTC-1%58K
23:00 UTC-1%52K
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: Saturday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Saturday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%235K
Monday0%296K
Tuesday-3%292K
Wednesday-1%254K
Thursday-2%248K
Friday-3%256K
Saturday+3%230K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 29, 202658x their median

    LILLEY: CBC's 9/11 retreat doesn't fix its terrorism problem https://t.co/cAY46UK8fS https://t.co/fgh3GsuhVO

    362672988.0K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202654x their median

    LILLEY: Trade war theatre helps Carney, Ford and Trump but hurts everyone else https://t.co/BDQdoSYxg4 https://t.co/PfyVrrBbhh

    300636367.7K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202626x their median

    GUNTER: CBC flip-flop on calling 9/11 'terrorism' exercise in disinformation https://t.co/uMFIWihGFa https://t.co/YNrQaKoiip

    139412314.7K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202620x their median

    Trump secures vast, potentially costly, U.S. stake in Venezuelan oil industry https://t.co/BUXHvPKIIN https://t.co/tj9sdwoTmx

    751071514K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 202615x their median

    Doug Ford unveils new Lake Ontario sign near Stoney Creek https://t.co/CG2NTu6Nbf https://t.co/FyoYMDoP7U

    3467645.2K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202612x their median

    EDITORIAL: Call it what you want. It's still Lake Ontario https://t.co/K1Jw5DIvTD https://t.co/vH0Vgdj2O4

    2256524.7K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 202610x their median

    SMOL: Armed Forces declare secular war on God referenced in charter, national anthem https://t.co/aUyhAHdyGI https://t.co/C6FjPob1QK

    45172105.7K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202610x their median

    Tim Dolighan cartoon, Aug. 29, 2026 https://t.co/rRiosxhnYn https://t.co/iLR1rico3F

    2764626.3K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202610x their median

    Alberta premier rejects oil and gas export tax in U.S. tariff tussle https://t.co/X1GHPjiXMC https://t.co/16SIKd3nLm

    4363025.4K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 20269.9x their median

    From @joe_warmington: Video of Canada Geese dolled up with Trump’s hair armed for tariff war https://t.co/yT9ZcoMHdp

    38102475.2K 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 8 interactions against 427K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 60 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,862 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 2.9K times each, and 0.277% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.677% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 60 posts sampled, 90% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 466 interactions, about 58x its own typical post.

What is Toronto Sun's engagement rate on X?
Toronto Sun (@TheTorontoSun) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 60 original posts from the last 30 days against 427,337 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.002%, Toronto Sun sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,350 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 @TheTorontoSun have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,862 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter 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 @TheTorontoSun post?
Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.

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