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WTNH News 8 engagement report

@WTNH - 283K followers on X

Measured over 58 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 23, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 283K followers
Per impression
0.25%
999 views on a typical post
Reach
0.35%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
2
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.97/day
active 10% of days
Peak time
00:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 2 interactions against 283K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 58 original posts, its engagement rate beats 5% of 20,444 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 999 times each, and 0.25% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.353% 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 Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 58 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 94 interactions, about 47x its own typical post.

Measured over 58 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 23, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

WTNH News 8's engagement rate beats 5% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 15% 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%, WTNH News 8 sits below the 10th percentile of the 205,048 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,048 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 00:00 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.

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 111%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%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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link100% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 100% 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 203 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

  • Oct 21, 202647x their median

    The state has released data revealing that more than 100,000 votes have been cast in the first two days of Connecticut's early voting, with Democrats making up a large majority. Click the link here for the full data: https://t.co/WctWnpIifK https://t.co/mykFcTHShz

    2375863.7K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 202634x their median

    Master Patrol Officer Lou Matteo concluded a 50-year career in law enforcement and service to the City of West Haven, according to a social media post Friday. https://t.co/b6utJZey4Z https://t.co/WaemZtU1gu

    595304.3K viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 202627x their median

    A former accountant at a Hebron youth mental health nonprofit has been arrested for allegedly embezzling over $50,000, and spending a large portion on retail shopping, according to a new state police warrant. https://t.co/5QxxsIGKAK https://t.co/Xs2yqZkLUr

    2717646.5K viewsView on X
  • Sep 19, 202621x their median

    A Wendy’s franchisee that operates 314 of the fast food company’s restaurants in 15 states, including Connecticut, announced Friday that it will be filing for bankruptcy. https://t.co/Luir8lQdNB https://t.co/IQGXCrm9IC

    22610314K viewsView on X
  • Sep 18, 202619x their median

    The Naugatuck deputy police chief was arrested Friday by Thomaston police, the Naugatuck Police Department confirmed. https://t.co/bnfSVRgaLx https://t.co/ONBL7HEEYn

    12716216K viewsView on X
  • Sep 19, 202614x their median

    CCSU's president is under investigation after a complaint accused her of violating the system’s code of conduct, and bullying and intimidating employees. https://t.co/ac09xXlBEG https://t.co/ocfyApclDX

    1261002.9K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 202613x their median

    More than 200 people have potentially been exposed to rabies via the mobile petting zoo’s baby goats, state health officials say. https://t.co/MzSQ0ZiIN1 https://t.co/iEo0GMhYGD

    167026.3K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 202613x their median

    UConn football coach Jason Candle took it to the last minute. Whether he was still deciding or knew and kept his cards close to his vest is a different story, but less than 24 hours to kickoff it was announced that Toledo transfer Kalieb Osborne will be UConn’s Week 1 starting quarterback against Lafayette on Saturday. https://t.co/szIETQZrJP

    232004.6K viewsView on X
  • Sep 20, 202612x their median

    Dante Reno threw five touchdown passes, with the final one to Graham Smith with 3:42 remaining for the go-ahead score as Yale scored 17 unanswered points in the final 9:36 to beat Holy Cross, 38-28, on Saturday in the season opener. https://t.co/Z4Y0nZSk3K https://t.co/beLsyXLySV

    231002.3K viewsView on X
  • Sep 21, 202611x their median

    Speaking to News 8's @MikeCerulliCT via FaceTime, Kosta Diamantis continued to profess his innocence while declining to discuss the details of his daring flight from federal authorities. https://t.co/64E5HVxPYL https://t.co/FSodbu8aBc

    85622.4K 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 2 interactions against 283K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 58 original posts, its engagement rate beats 5% of 20,444 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 999 times each, and 0.25% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.353% 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 Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 58 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 94 interactions, about 47x its own typical post.

What is WTNH News 8's engagement rate on X?
WTNH News 8 (@WTNH) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 58 original posts from the last 30 days against 283,135 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, WTNH News 8 sits below the 10th percentile of the 205,048 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 @WTNH have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 5% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @WTNH post?
Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.97 posts per day across the measured window.

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