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Atlanta Journal-Constitution engagement report

@ajc - 981K followers on X

Measured over 65 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 10, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 981K followers
Per impression
0.327%
4.3K views on a typical post
Reach
0.44%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
14
interactions (median)
Saved
0.023%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.6/day
active 30% of days
Peak time
23:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 14 interactions against 981K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 65 original posts, its engagement rate beats 14% 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 4.3K times each, and 0.327% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.437% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 65 posts sampled, 8% carry an image or video and 94% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 985 interactions, about 70x its own typical post.

Measured over 65 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 10, 2026. Recurring tag: #gapol.

Compared with accounts its own size

Atlanta Journal-Constitution's engagement rate beats 14% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 23% 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%, Atlanta Journal-Constitution sits below the 10th percentile of the 206,310 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.68%
p902.56%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 206,310 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,260 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 percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.68%
90th percentile2.56%
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 23:00 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: 23:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 23:00 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 video8% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link94% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 8% 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.
  • 94% 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 181 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 10, 202670x their median

    The Atlanta Dream are headed to the 2026 WNBA Finals after sweeping the New York Liberty 3-0! 🏀 Atlanta will make its first Finals appearance since 2013, with a chance to win the first championship in franchise history. https://t.co/lklVmGIb3t

    79217014910K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 202636x their median

    Excited that today I start as the Georgia Tech beat writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The past two years as @ajc Athens bureau chief were incredible. I’m thrilled to get back to sports and mainline coffee late into the night after games this fall. Let’s get to it https://t.co/496Iq0dF1S

    4154039844K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 202621x their median

    Atlanta native Errin Haines leads the National Association of Black Journalists into its first convention in the city in more than two decades as the industry confronts layoffs, AI and attacks on the press. https://t.co/3Jo8t8Kp57 #NABJ26 https://t.co/91NCWD9Dsf

    2027713223K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 202618x their median

    Prominent Black Democrats rally behind Keisha Lance Bottoms https://t.co/96E6pFsfhE

    1424658315K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 202617x their median

    ICE seeks to deport Iranian woman in Georgia to Central African Republic, a country unknown to her that U.S. authorities deem unsafe for travel. The woman said she fled her home country because she feared for her life after converting to Christianity — an illegal and severely punished act in Iran. Read more: https://t.co/tSoMiHmq09

    14568141476K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 202615x their median

    Everton Blair, Georgia’s first openly gay congressman, sworn into office https://t.co/6lcXhZULqx

    1574710111K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 202615x their median

    The decision extends a four-decade DNC drought for Atlanta and is a stinging disappointment for boosters who mounted a more aggressive campaign to land the convention after losing the 2024 event to Chicago, which was also eliminated on Thursday. #gapol https://t.co/YLXKgl6nqN

    143351413234K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 202614x their median

    Charles Walker Sr., Georgia’s first Black Senate majority leader, dies at 78 https://t.co/MaLUc8zLdI

    133524313K viewsView on X
  • Oct 8, 202614x their median

    Atlanta family condemns new Rick Jackson ad using image of shot girl https://t.co/g0crIQQOS0

    104533027.9K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 202613x their median

    The lawsuit alleged that comedians Eric André and Clayton English were racially profiled and illegally stopped by Clayton County police at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. More: https://t.co/ltLnTl4g9q https://t.co/YS0JfzCvtm

    1344110317K 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.

Recurring topics

#gapol

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 14 interactions against 981K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 65 original posts, its engagement rate beats 14% 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 4.3K times each, and 0.327% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.437% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 65 posts sampled, 8% carry an image or video and 94% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 985 interactions, about 70x its own typical post.

What is Atlanta Journal-Constitution's engagement rate on X?
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (@ajc) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 65 original posts from the last 30 days against 980,929 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, Atlanta Journal-Constitution sits below the 10th percentile of the 206,310 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 @ajc have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 14% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @ajc post?
Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.6 posts per day across the measured window.

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