The Daily Telegraph engagement report
@dailytelegraph - 228K followers on X
Measured over 80 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1 interaction against 228K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 80 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% 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 1.0K times each, and 0.098% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.449% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 80 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 33 interactions, about 33x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #exclusive, #nrl, #breakingnews.
Measured over 80 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #exclusive, #nrl, #breakingnews.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Daily Telegraph's engagement rate beats 2% 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 6% 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 under 0.001%, The Daily Telegraph sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,694 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 | 0.677% |
| 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 01:00 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 | 96% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 96% 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 282 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.
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
- Sep 30, 202633x their median
Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers is under fire for blaming the war in the Middle East for fuelling inflation while ignoring runaway government spending. What do you think? Take our poll on this and other important issues. #POLL ๐ค https://t.co/OW5SDvQffM We launched a faster, redesigned app - with all new puzzles: https://t.co/AmOvUploiP
- Sep 10, 202621x their median
2GB breakfast host Ben Fordham has signed a five-year multimillion-dollar contract extension, less than a year after publicly questioning his future at the station. #EXCLUSIVE ๐ https://t.co/gIhTHRWcya ๐ We launched a faster, redesigned app - with all new puzzles: https://t.co/AmOvUploiP
- Sep 30, 202620x their median
The Knights defied every critic to reach the NRL grand final - yet not one Newcastle player has made the Dally M Team of the Year. See the full team and vote ๐ https://t.co/sSUexqlsxO We launched a faster, redesigned app - with all new puzzles: https://t.co/IkewYqEUKj https://t.co/i4E5snhiZQ
- Sep 30, 202617x their median
#BreakingNews - Former RBA governor Dr Philip Lowe has issued a desperate plea to the Albanese government to cut spending as the countryโs rolling inflation nightmare pushes a November rate hike into the pipeline โก๏ธ https://t.co/JZZln1D7zf We launched a faster, redesigned app - with all new puzzles: https://t.co/AmOvUploiP
- Sep 30, 202615x their median
The winner of the 2026 NRL Dally M Medal is none other than Panthers halfback Nathan Cleary. #NRL ๐ https://t.co/NMEwy1cSsN We launched a faster, redesigned app - with all new puzzles: https://t.co/IkewYqEUKj https://t.co/qLlMRcgx6V
- Sep 11, 202610x their median
Ausgrid bosses toasted bumper profits with champagne as executive pay soared to almost $20 million โ while hiking customer electricity charges by almost 10 per cent. #EXCLUSIVE ๐ https://t.co/kUUoquG8fL ๐ We launched a faster, redesigned app - with all new puzzles: https://t.co/AmOvUploiP
- Sep 30, 20269.0x their median
The NRLโs secret grand final entertainment act will be an emotional pre-game tribute to Jai Arrow, while iconic Aussie rock band Silverchair delivers a grand final message to fans. #NRL ๐ https://t.co/EyT5WpKa3f We launched a faster, redesigned app - with all new puzzles: https://t.co/AmOvUploiP
- Sep 10, 20269.0x their median
New modelling has revealed how quickly entire Sydney suburbs could be wiped out by rising sea levels, with experts saying it is already too late to save them. See the maps. ๐ https://t.co/FN4rVR6GWN https://t.co/BjSAh5E5zq
- Sep 11, 20268.0x their median
The Albanese government came out swinging against One Nationโs plan to allow mortgage holders to access superannuation, yet it allows federal public servants to do the same, says veteran broadcaster Ray Hadley. โถ๏ธ https://t.co/0bU5LrkDZu We launched a faster, redesigned app - with all new puzzles: https://t.co/AmOvUploiP
- Sep 10, 20268.0x their median
Barnaby Joyce has distanced himself from the growing feud between Pauline Hanson and Andrew Hastie, with veteran Jacqui Lambie also weighing in with a searing takedown. READ THE LATEST: https://t.co/Q60FjtJUuH We launched a faster, redesigned app - with all new puzzles: https://t.co/AmOvUploiP
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 1 interaction against 228K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 80 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% 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 1.0K times each, and 0.098% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.449% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 80 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 33 interactions, about 33x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #exclusive, #nrl, #breakingnews.
- What is The Daily Telegraph's engagement rate on X?
- The Daily Telegraph (@dailytelegraph) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 80 original posts from the last 30 days against 227,699 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, The Daily Telegraph sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,694 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 @dailytelegraph have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 2% 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 @dailytelegraph post?
- Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.67 posts per day across the measured window.