WPIAL Insider engagement report
@WPIAL_Insider - 50K followers on X
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 19, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 25 interactions against 50K followers, an engagement rate of 0.05%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% of 19,933 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 3.7K times each, and 0.671% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.41% 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 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video and 8% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 458 interactions, about 18x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #wpial, #kdkafridaynightlights, #poweredbybowser.
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 19, 2026. Recurring tags: #wpial, #kdkafridaynightlights, #poweredbybowser.
Compared with accounts its own size
WPIAL Insider's engagement rate beats 26% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,933 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 4 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 22% 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 0.05%, WPIAL Insider sits above the 25th percentile of the 201,342 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.141%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.141% |
| 75th percentile | 0.671% |
| 90th percentile | 2.53% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 02:00 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 | 85% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 85% 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.
- 0% 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 153 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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 13, 202618x their median
A new era in WPIAL Football… WPIAL Insider Thursday Night PRIMETIME is here‼️ The Main Event in the WPIAL will be aired live weekly Thursday Nights on SportsNet Pittsburgh. 📺 https://t.co/JNIyEAkl8f
- Oct 16, 20262.3x their median
Yesterday’s WPIAL Insider Roadshow was one to remember! S/O to Jeannette for being great hosts, and major thank you to the WPIAL 🐐 Terrelle Pryor for being the celebrity guest picker! https://t.co/zymOuPXV0l
- Oct 17, 20262.1x their median
Final scores from all 5A and 4A games tonight. Getting the last couple stragglers for the other classifications https://t.co/R23QZfRjvl
- Oct 17, 20261.9x their median
#UpsetAlert 🚨🚨🚨 Peter’s Township takes down West Allegheny 14-7. The reigning champs never say die! https://t.co/6wtG4Hv0Mc
- Oct 17, 2026
A very cool and lively environment for WPIAL high school football at FNB Stadium for the 412 Kickoff Classic OLSH is hanging in there with Hopewell as the Vikings lead 13-0 https://t.co/n5VNyBZ3ox
- Oct 17, 2026
The Hempfield Spartans clinch a playoff spot for the first time since 2016‼️ S/O to them https://t.co/5XA6qlN0C5
- Oct 17, 2026
Final scores from across the WPIAL in the 1A, 2A, 3A, and 6A A great week of games from Week8 https://t.co/x052OAh8fK
- Oct 17, 2026
Not the type of island I’d want to be on! @WPIAL_Insider https://t.co/ViVyRneypc
- Oct 19, 2026
BEAVER COUNTY STAND UP‼️ This one might determine a playoff berth. It’s all on the line this Thursday. OLSH vs Beaver. 🍿🍿🍿 https://t.co/KgZpwNoaVC
- Oct 19, 2026
WEEK 9 GAME OF THE WEEK! It's a South Hills showdown as Upper St. Clair takes on Thomas Jefferson this Friday night in our KDKA High School Football Game of the Week, powered by @BowserAuto! 🏆‼️ 📅 Friday, October 23 ⏰ 7:00 PM #WPIAL #PoweredByBowser #KDKAFridayNightLights https://t.co/PVo5a0A8fQ
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 25 interactions against 50K followers, an engagement rate of 0.05%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% of 19,933 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 3.7K times each, and 0.671% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.41% 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 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video and 8% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 458 interactions, about 18x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #wpial, #kdkafridaynightlights, #poweredbybowser.
- What is WPIAL Insider's engagement rate on X?
- WPIAL Insider (@WPIAL_Insider) has an engagement rate of 0.05%, based on the median interactions across 13 original posts from the last 30 days against 50,273 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.05%, WPIAL Insider sits above the 25th percentile of the 201,342 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 @WPIAL_Insider have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 26% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,933 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 @WPIAL_Insider post?
- Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.57 posts per day across the measured window.