Los Angeles Times engagement report
@latimes - 3.8M followers on X
Measured over 304 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 18 interactions against 3.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 304 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% 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 14K times each, and 0.125% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.375% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 12.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 304 posts sampled, 6% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 59x its own typical post.
Measured over 304 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tag: #housing.
Compared with accounts its own size
Los Angeles Times's engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 11% 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%, Los Angeles Times sits below 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 13:00 UTC, and Sunday 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 28, 202659x their median
“I don’t think demanding that women and girls be safe and have ownership over their own bodies is a radical idea,” Rodrigo told The Times. Read more: https://t.co/MVJswqB0mc https://t.co/BJnOBvQVza
- Aug 21, 202627x their median
To mark Mel Brooks’ 100th birthday, the American Cinematheque asked the comedy icon to program a series of his favorite films, The Times can exclusively reveal. Here are the 20 movies he picked and where they're screening: https://t.co/HhcWviFT0d https://t.co/xmCoWZPfPL
- Aug 20, 202621x their median
Matthew Rhys says it's harder to do a California accent than a Boston or New York one. "Then there are just simply words in the American dialect that can take me down," Rhys told The Times on the latest episode of The Envelope podcast. Watch now. https://t.co/ri552z14wW https://t.co/4FcFCuwbJo
- Aug 25, 202618x their median
Dolly Parton, the singer, songwriter, actor, businesswoman and national treasure who willed herself into being the very symbol of country music stardom, has died at 80. Parton reinvented the American success story through a combination of grit and wit, faith and sex appeal, virtuosity and plainspokenness. Read more: https://t.co/wwz29HXKFP
- Aug 23, 202614x their median
Newsom signs bill shielding immigrant aid workers' home addresses https://t.co/m4TsIE8KMp
- Aug 16, 202610x their median
Tommy John, who ruptured a ligament in his left elbow in 1974, agreed to a then-radical surgery that revived his career and changed baseball. John, who pitched for the Dodgers, Angels, Yankees and White Sox, died at the age of 83 on Saturday. https://t.co/O5sqyC4JaO https://t.co/adzmiaqmmS
- Aug 30, 20269.2x their median
L.A. Phil will offer $10 Hollywood Bowl tickets for Medi-Cal, EBT cardholders https://t.co/Kih5apVhYu
- Aug 25, 20269.1x their median
Dolly Parton was the last star in music everyone in America could agree on. She is one of the finest singer-songwriters this country ever produced, and it’s inconceivable to sum up her catalog in just an LP’s worth of tunes. Here are 10 songs to start with. https://t.co/kmeJVcVEDK
- Aug 20, 20267.7x their median
L.A. once “stood in for everywhere. Now L.A. doesn’t even stand in for itself,” said Jonathan Nolan, a writer, director and producer, whose credits include the HBO series “Westworld” and “Fallout” on Amazon. https://t.co/3v9M6gmU3v
- Aug 29, 20267.1x their median
LAPD releases video of officers beating handcuffed jail inmate who later died https://t.co/H0qMhcoaOg
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 18 interactions against 3.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 304 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% 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 14K times each, and 0.125% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.375% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 12.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 304 posts sampled, 6% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 59x its own typical post.
- What is Los Angeles Times's engagement rate on X?
- Los Angeles Times (@latimes) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 304 original posts from the last 30 days against 3,831,411 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Los Angeles Times sits below 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 @latimes have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 13% 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 @latimes post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 12.4 posts per day across the measured window.