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Catholic News Agency engagement report

@cnalive - 458K followers on X

Measured over 117 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 22, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.008%
of 458K followers
Per impression
0.829%
4.3K views on a typical post
Reach
0.95%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
36
interactions (median)
Saved
0.046%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
4/day
active 53% of days
Peak time
10:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 36 interactions against 458K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 117 original posts, its engagement rate beats 31% of 20,444 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 4.3K times each, and 0.829% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.949% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 117 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 351 interactions, about 9.8x its own typical post.

Measured over 117 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 22, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Catholic News Agency's engagement rate beats 31% 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 42% 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 0.008%, Catholic News Agency sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,261 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 205,261 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 10:00 UTC, and Friday 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: 10:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 10:00 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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Friday
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 video0% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link100% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 0% 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 225 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

  • Aug 27, 20269.8x their median

    Norway’s Catholic bishops have asked Pope Leo XIV to declare a year of jubilee from 2030 to 2031, marking 1,000 years since the martyrdom of St. Olav at Stiklestad. The petition came as the pope received Lutheran bishops from Norway at the Vatican. https://t.co/BmyrMeIdFr

    305423113K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 20268.4x their median

    A coalition of religious sisters has joined Chicago's Cardinal Blase Cupich in suing the state of Illinois to prevent enforcement of its recently passed assisted suicide law. https://t.co/BcaouI6E5L

    25149309.2K viewsView on X
  • Sep 2, 20267.8x their median

    Joe Schmid ran a highly popular agnostic YouTube channel for years, but “a gift of God’s grace” has led him back to the faith. https://t.co/mH3n2u10s2

    247256111K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 20267.1x their median

    On Saturday, thousands of activists marched from the Emmanuel Centre, Westminster to Parliament Square as part of an annual demonstration organized by pro-life group March For Life UK. https://t.co/4YhQKowK7r

    21535339.4K viewsView on X
  • Sep 18, 20265.7x their median

    A video of a Catholic priest breaking down in tears and struggling to raise the chalice above his head while saying the consecration prayers during Mass spread across social media this week, prompting the priest to issue a statement through his diocese. https://t.co/IPC9wWqa6w

    180231216K viewsView on X
  • Sep 20, 20265.5x their median

    Pope Leo XIV on Sunday appealed for greater international assistance to Somalia, where violence and extreme weather are worsening an already severe humanitarian crisis, particularly for women and children. https://t.co/NZ5Al1Vdkl

    138233809.5K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20264.8x their median

    The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem has warned that the Christian presence in the Holy Land is going through one of the most critical moments in its 2,000-year history. https://t.co/Xj25db6FRD

    118431037.1K viewsView on X
  • Sep 20, 20264.2x their median

    When the Catholic Church is mentioned, many think exclusively of the Latin-rite Church, to which the vast majority of the world’s Catholics belong. However, the Catholic Church also includes 23 Eastern-rite Churches. https://t.co/XXhTjeSZez

    12022829.5K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 20264.1x their median

    The Lourdes Shrine in France has confirmed that 150,000 of the faithful will be in attendance for Pope Leo XIV’s visit. The pontiff is scheduled to arrive on the afternoon of Saturday, Sept. 26, and celebrate Mass the following day. https://t.co/XE0tL09fgo

    12620109.2K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 20264.0x their median

    Sept. 5 marks the feast of Mother Teresa and the 10th anniversary of her canonization. https://t.co/w4L5nVJBKm

    13312006.9K 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 36 interactions against 458K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 117 original posts, its engagement rate beats 31% of 20,444 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 4.3K times each, and 0.829% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.949% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 117 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 351 interactions, about 9.8x its own typical post.

What is Catholic News Agency's engagement rate on X?
Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) has an engagement rate of 0.008%, based on the median interactions across 117 original posts from the last 30 days against 457,616 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.008%, Catholic News Agency sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,261 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 @cnalive have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 31% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @cnalive post?
Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 4 posts per day across the measured window.

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