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Shanghai Daily engagement report

@shanghaidaily - 394K followers on X

Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.006%
of 394K followers
Per impression
0.697%
3.2K views on a typical post
Reach
0.82%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
22
interactions (median)
Saved
0.031%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.47/day
active 20% of days
Peak time
01:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 22 interactions against 394K followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% of 3,739 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 3.2K times each, and 0.697% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.82% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.4K interactions, about 62x its own typical post.

Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Shanghai Daily's engagement rate beats 15% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 33% 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 0.006%, Shanghai Daily sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.431%
p902.10%
p99160.7%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,261 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,137 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.431%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.7%

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 01:00 UTC, and Monday 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: 01:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 01:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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%51K
08:00 UTC-4%60K
09:00 UTC-3%69K
10:00 UTC-2%71K
11:00 UTC-3%78K
12:00 UTC-2%86K
13:00 UTC-2%93K
14:00 UTC-3%96K
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
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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Monday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%229K
Monday0%284K
Tuesday-2%273K
Wednesday-1%250K
Thursday-2%243K
Friday-3%251K
Saturday+3%226K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 30, 202662x their median

    BREAKING: A passenger ferry has capsized north of Cyprus shortly after setting off for Turkey. 280 people were onboard. A massive rescue operation is underway, with many people in the water. https://t.co/0mT7UTe9j3

    1.0K2365431371K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 202616x their median

    At the Gyirong mudslide search site, a rabbit plushie caked in mud, still holding a bright red heart, was found among the debris. A firefighter gently placed it on a high rock before turning back to continue the search. https://t.co/4o0ve9pNAA

    23847383140K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20263.2x their median

    A woman in Shenzhen's Shuibei found a 758.9g gold block (~US$133k)​ dropped by a man on a balance scooter hitting a speed bump on Aug 25. She handed it to mall security. Police returned it to the owner an hour later. https://t.co/qx3ueVGn0P

    700105.4K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20262.7x their median

    A Chinese blogger alleges cabbages from Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, were dipped in formaldehyde before loading onto trucks — claiming it keeps them fresh 2–3 days. Local officials said they have launched an investigation. https://t.co/8U0BdphwHV

    4394420K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20262.5x their median

    Viral footage showed two cars, including a red Ferrari, allegedly racing and weaving through traffic on Shanghai’s Jiamin Elevated Road at speeds believed to exceed 130 km/h. Police have taken criminal action against both drivers for suspected dangerous driving. https://t.co/SO3pMmMHrx

    4616211K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20262.5x their median

    A young man from Hunan set off from Shanghai on a three-wheeled vehicle and reached Lhasa after 146 days, selling fried rice noodles along the way. He made around 100,000 yuan (US$13,900) in sales and roughly 60,000 yuan in profit. https://t.co/J9DOK6VkdC

    504103.9K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20262.5x their median

    Texas Chicken opened its first China store in Shanghai on Aug 28. Customers queued in the rain, with wait times over 2 hours. https://t.co/oFFIZcckTA

    4039310K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 20262.3x their median

    A power bank bursted in flames in a man’s pocket in Shenzhen on July 27. https://t.co/KdZTgpGKc9

    444025.5K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 20262.0x their median

    Official sources confirmed today that the list of missing foreign nationals from the Gyirong avalanche has been updated to 261 individuals from 23 countries. Here is the breakdown by nationality: Nepal: 104 India: 49 Latvia: 33 United States: 18 United Kingdom: 15 Canada: 6 Australia: 6 South Africa: 4 Germany: 3 Russia: 3 Malaysia: 3 France: 2 Ireland: 2 Estonia: 2 Netherlands: 2 New Zealand: 2 Kazakhstan: 1 Finland: 1 Portugal: 1 Ukraine: 1 Spain: 1 Hungary: 1 Lithuania: 1 Chinese authorities have notified the respective embassies and consulates. No foreign tourists remain stranded in Gyirong County following extensive searches and verification.

    3092221K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 20261.7x their median

    In the rescue site at Xizang's Gyirong Port, every object buried in the mud and debris once belonged to someone's everyday life. https://t.co/5aMkgqv1H0

    316003.5K 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 22 interactions against 394K followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% of 3,739 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 3.2K times each, and 0.697% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.82% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.4K interactions, about 62x its own typical post.

What is Shanghai Daily's engagement rate on X?
Shanghai Daily (@shanghaidaily) has an engagement rate of 0.006%, based on the median interactions across 32 original posts from the last 30 days against 393,583 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.006%, Shanghai Daily sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 @shanghaidaily have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 15% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @shanghaidaily post?
Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.47 posts per day across the measured window.

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