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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 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 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.
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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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.