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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.68% |
| 90th percentile | 2.56% |
| 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 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.
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 | 8% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 94% 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
- 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
- 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
- Aug 31, 202618x their median
Prominent Black Democrats rally behind Keisha Lance Bottoms https://t.co/96E6pFsfhE
- 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
- Sep 1, 202615x their median
Everton Blair, Georgia’s first openly gay congressman, sworn into office https://t.co/6lcXhZULqx
- 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
- Aug 20, 202614x their median
Charles Walker Sr., Georgia’s first Black Senate majority leader, dies at 78 https://t.co/MaLUc8zLdI
- Oct 8, 202614x their median
Atlanta family condemns new Rick Jackson ad using image of shot girl https://t.co/g0crIQQOS0
- 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
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 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.