Committee to Protect Journalists engagement report
@pressfreedom - 250K followers on X
Measured over 45 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 30 interactions against 250K followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Measured over 45 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% 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 2.9K times each, and 1.03% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.17% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 45 posts sampled, 76% carry an image or video, 9% are part of a thread and 93% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 215 interactions, about 7.2x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #hiring, #eritrea16, #freereza.
Measured over 45 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 26, 2026. Recurring tags: #hiring, #eritrea16, #freereza.
Compared with accounts its own size
Committee to Protect Journalists's engagement rate beats 26% 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 43% 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 0.012%, Committee to Protect Journalists sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,798 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 | 0.678% |
| 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 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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 | 76% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 93% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 76% 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.
- 93% 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 379 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 21, 20267.2x their median
Banning @CNN, @MSNOWNews and @politico from the White House sets a dangerous precedent, one in which the president decides what the American people know and from whom they can know it. CPJ and leading news organizations stand together in defense of a free press, and in condemning any attempts to restrict their ability to report on the government. Will you join us? Read the statement and add your support ⬇️ https://t.co/lOfvL8fKTS
- Sep 18, 20266.3x their median
“It was the first and last time that I’ve been able to be near my father,” Beilula Sium tells CPJ, describing how — as a baby — she met her journalist father, Seyoum Tsehaye. “We were able to enter for a brief moment, enough time that he could see me through the bars of the prison.” CPJ interviewed three relatives of the #Eritrea16, who are among the longest-detained journalists in the world. September 18 marks the 25th anniversary of the day that authorities banned the privately owned press, triggering a wave of arrests. These journalists have been arbitrarily imprisoned, without trial or access to their families, for a quarter of a century. CPJ calls on Eritrean authorities to account for their health, whereabouts, and legal status. Their families have a right to know. ⚖️ Free the #Eritrea16 🇪🇷 Read more: https://t.co/poAf4UMlcv
- Sep 3, 20263.9x their median
Almost nine years after investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated in a car bomb, Malta has still not convicted the person or people who orchestrated her horrific murder, setting a terrible precedent that will resonate across Europe. CPJ's Tom Gibson was in Valetta for the upsetting verdict. Read more: https://t.co/nAy6uchetB
- Aug 27, 20262.9x their median
A new special report, published collaboratively by CPJ and the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at the @Kennedy_School unpacks how mass surveillance from online advertising puts journalists at risk. Read more⤵️ https://t.co/YUhBZ9A7Tg https://t.co/zcOCVcetgi
- Sep 2, 20262.8x their median
⚖️Free the #Eritrea16 🇪🇷 Detained newspaper editor Amanuel Asrat was also a leading poet and songwriter and the most popular art critic of his time. He set up writers’ clubs across Eritrea and is credited for a national poetry resurgence in the early 2000s. September marks the 25th anniversary of the arrest of the Eritrea 16, among the longest-detained journalists in the world. They have been arbitrarily imprisoned, without trial or access to their families, for a quarter of a century. Several are feared dead. CPJ calls on Eritrean authorities to account for these journalists’ health, whereabouts, and legal status. Their families have a right to know. Read more: https://t.co/poAf4UMlcv
- Sep 18, 20262.7x their median
This month marks the 25th anniversary of the arrest of the Eritrea 16, among the longest-detained journalists in the world. CPJ calls on Eritrean authorities to account for these journalists’ health, whereabouts, and legal status. ⚖️ Free the #Eritrea16 🇪🇷 https://t.co/8mwYKpMi6n
- Sep 5, 20261.8x their median
In Tunisia, journalists don’t have to be behind bars to be silenced. At least four journalists and commentators sentenced to prison remain free under the threat of arrest, while two others are in exile, unable to return home without risking imprisonment. Read more: https://t.co/uGwUvbRMae
- Sep 4, 20261.8x their median
CPJ, together with @RSF_inter and 19 other organizations, experts, and news leaders, call on Group of 20 leaders to ensure that “journalists and news organizations will be able to freely cover deliberations by representatives of the world’s largest economies, whose decisions have broad ramifications around the world.” The public has a right to know. Read more: https://t.co/gHutswnZNC #G20Summit
- Sep 22, 20261.7x their median
📰 September 23 marks 25 years since Swedish-Eritrean journalist #DawitIsaak was forcibly disappeared and arbitrarily detained by Eritrean authorities. Arrested alongside several fellow journalists in September 2001, Mr. Isaak and his colleagues are now the world’s longest-detained journalists. The RWCHR along with a broad international coalition of human rights groups is urging 🇸🇪 Swedish and 🇪🇺 EU officials to take meaningful action on his case while there is still time. Read the full press release here 👇 https://t.co/M45OjxWulc
- Sep 2, 20261.7x their median
#Malta: Businessman Yorgen Fenech, who was accused of commissioning the murder of investigative journalist #DaphneCaruanaGalizia in 2017, was acquitted by a Maltese court on Wednesday. CPJ stands by Daphne's devastated family whose quest for justice in this shocking case has been relentless.
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 30 interactions against 250K followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Measured over 45 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% 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 2.9K times each, and 1.03% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.17% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 45 posts sampled, 76% carry an image or video, 9% are part of a thread and 93% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 215 interactions, about 7.2x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #hiring, #eritrea16, #freereza.
- What is Committee to Protect Journalists's engagement rate on X?
- Committee to Protect Journalists (@pressfreedom) has an engagement rate of 0.012%, based on the median interactions across 45 original posts from the last 30 days against 249,813 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.012%, Committee to Protect Journalists sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,798 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 @pressfreedom have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 26% 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 @pressfreedom post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.47 posts per day across the measured window.