Globalnews.ca engagement report
@globalnews - 973K followers on X
Measured over 97 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 19 interactions against 973K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 97 original posts, its engagement rate beats 17% of 3,774 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 10K times each, and 0.181% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.08% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 97 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.3K interactions, about 71x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #breaking, #cdnpoli.
Measured over 97 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026. Recurring tags: #breaking, #cdnpoli.
Compared with accounts its own size
Globalnews.ca's engagement rate beats 17% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 0.002%, Globalnews.ca sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 18, 202671x their median
Canada deports senior member of Iranian regime. https://t.co/ic91tSmfXv
- Aug 25, 202654x their median
Former premier Jason Kenney is questioning why Alberta is taking oil and gas off the table in the high-stakes tariffs war with the United States, saying Canada has the power to really put the squeeze on America through energy exports. #cdnpoli https://t.co/WkvEr43C3V
- Aug 24, 202628x their median
“I would just encourage policymakers around the world to take the lesson of what we see today,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said. https://t.co/7v7DYYQUrJ
- Aug 25, 202615x their median
"We’ll be smart and we’ll be strategic," Industry Minister Melanie Joly said. https://t.co/jM0wbVVIus
- Aug 18, 202613x their median
Unless a trade deal is reached, a fresh round of sweeping 50 per cent tariffs could hit Canada by midnight. https://t.co/fxHb58sOB4
- Aug 26, 202612x their median
Iranian official living in Toronto was critical to terror finance, says CBSA report. https://t.co/zEfu12iUZz
- Aug 17, 202612x their median
A fresh round of sweeping 50 per cent tariffs from the U.S. are expected to hit Canada on Wednesday and Canadians are divided on how to respond. https://t.co/fkyEXAsVSt
- Aug 25, 202611x their median
Alberta's premier has been a holdout among provincial and territorial leaders when it comes to putting their support behind Prime Minister Mark Carney's plan for counter-tariffs. https://t.co/FAZaXW3zGG
- Aug 25, 20269.2x their median
"Dolly called me and said she wants to rest in a beautiful bed of plush cotton because after a life wearing heavy rhinestones, she finally deserves to be comfortable," her nephew, Bryan Seaver, said in a video. https://t.co/J1LFij4o2B
- Aug 25, 20267.4x their median
Trump considering renaming Lake Ontario as relations with province sour https://t.co/MwQ1ix13r1
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 19 interactions against 973K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 97 original posts, its engagement rate beats 17% of 3,774 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 10K times each, and 0.181% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.08% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 97 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.3K interactions, about 71x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #breaking, #cdnpoli.
- What is Globalnews.ca's engagement rate on X?
- Globalnews.ca (@globalnews) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 97 original posts from the last 30 days against 973,498 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, Globalnews.ca sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 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 @globalnews have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 17% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @globalnews post?
- Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.23 posts per day across the measured window.