Times Free Press engagement report
@TimesFreePress - 88K followers on X
Measured over 70 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 2 interactions against 88K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 70 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 15,519 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 928 times each, and 0.216% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.05% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 70 posts sampled, 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 21 interactions, about 11x its own typical post.
Measured over 70 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Times Free Press's engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 11% 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%, Times Free Press sits below the 10th percentile of the 156,596 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.022%.
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 01:00 UTC, and Friday 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 | 1% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 97% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 1% 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.
- 97% 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 204 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
- Aug 29, 202611x their median
In the aftermath of Cleveland's 28-21 home win over McMinn County on Friday night, senior quarterback Kason McGowan was asked what his team learned from last year's 1-9 season. His answer? Resilience. https://t.co/STIYa71p2l
- Sep 23, 20269.5x their median
Saturday's Texas-Tennessee football game in Knoxville is scheduled to include a visit from President Donald Trump. https://t.co/qT2vcmmVPv
- Sep 23, 20267.0x their median
Popular left-wing streamer and commentator Hasan Piker cited the Tennessee Valley Authority and EPB's broadband internet in Chattanooga as successful government development projects the U.S. should replicate in other places. https://t.co/bcf5ZY8uwz
- Aug 28, 20265.5x their median
A push to rename Nashville's airport for Dolly Parton appears to be taking flight just days after her death. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and the CEO of the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority both came out in favor of the name change Friday. https://t.co/yjFtICEh1d
- Aug 29, 20264.0x their median
A Cleveland, Tennessee-based restaurant franchisee paid about $62,000 in federal child labor penalties that the company president called "way over the top." https://t.co/neCGDuc5z1
- Sep 25, 20263.5x their median
When he moved from Chicago to Memphis before his junior year of high school, UTC junior offensive lineman Tracy Jackson had never played football. https://t.co/mpmDZYLsIf
- Aug 27, 20263.0x their median
Tennessee will receive over $750 million as part of a nationwide $17.1 billion settlement by Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. https://Tennessee to receive $750M of $17B Facebook, Instagram settlement
- Aug 27, 20263.0x their median
It was just a year ago that University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football coach Rusty Wright was grasping for answers about his team, with one of the biggest questions being, essentially: "Who are (most of) these guys?" https://t.co/JPAuRqyuvE
- Sep 25, 20262.5x their median
In a community where showing earns more respect than telling, Eli Hope is gaining plenty of appreciation for the way he continues to show up every Friday night. https://t.co/stpUKwbz4B
- Sep 24, 20262.5x their median
COLUMN: There is no doubt the Southeastern Conference adding a ninth league game has increased an already stout inventory and extended the Saturday enjoyment of a couch potato. https://t.co/jEL5eYn1wM
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 2 interactions against 88K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 70 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 15,519 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 928 times each, and 0.216% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.05% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 70 posts sampled, 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 21 interactions, about 11x its own typical post.
- What is Times Free Press's engagement rate on X?
- Times Free Press (@TimesFreePress) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 70 original posts from the last 30 days against 88,392 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, Times Free Press sits below the 10th percentile of the 156,596 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 @TimesFreePress have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 @TimesFreePress post?
- Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.33 posts per day across the measured window.