The Star engagement report
@staronline - 1.7M followers on X
Measured over 154 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 23, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 0 interactions against 1.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 154 original posts, its engagement rate beats 0% of 983 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 899 times each, and 0.056% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.053% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 154 posts sampled, 14% carry an image or video and 95% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 12 interactions.
Measured over 154 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 23, 2026. Recurring tag: #myanmar.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Star's engagement rate beats 0% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (983 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 3% 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%, The Star sits below the 10th percentile of the 9,668 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.006%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.006% |
| 50th percentile | 0.046% |
| 75th percentile | 0.318% |
| 90th percentile | 2.67% |
| 99th percentile | 366.2% |
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 11:00 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 | 0% | 14K |
| 01:00 UTC | +3% | 15K |
| 02:00 UTC | -1% | 14K |
| 03:00 UTC | -2% | 15K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 12K |
| 06:00 UTC | -7% | 13K |
| 07:00 UTC | -6% | 14K |
| 08:00 UTC | -7% | 16K |
| 09:00 UTC | -2% | 19K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 20K |
| 11:00 UTC | -2% | 22K |
| 12:00 UTC | -1% | 24K |
| 13:00 UTC | +1% | 27K |
| 14:00 UTC | -2% | 28K |
| 15:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 16:00 UTC | -1% | 29K |
| 17:00 UTC | -1% | 28K |
| 18:00 UTC | +1% | 25K |
| 19:00 UTC | 0% | 23K |
| 20:00 UTC | 0% | 21K |
| 21:00 UTC | +1% | 19K |
| 22:00 UTC | +1% | 16K |
| 23:00 UTC | +1% | 15K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +9% | 56K |
| Monday | +8% | 72K |
| Tuesday | +1% | 93K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 77K |
| Thursday | -3% | 70K |
| Friday | -6% | 71K |
| Saturday | +2% | 62K |
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 | 14% of posts | +79% | +73% to +84% | 5.7K |
| Outbound link | 95% of posts | -49% | -50% to -47% | 6.0K |
| Typical length | - | -5% | -7% to -4% | 7.8K |
- 14% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 79% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 95% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 49% 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 183 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters run 5% below 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
- Aug 23, 2026
Umno and Barisan Nasional will not enter an electoral arrangement with Perikatan Nasional blindly for the upcoming Melaka state election, says Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. Read more at https://t.co/te7SJP58sr https://t.co/Cv24q9ovo2
- Aug 18, 20266.0x their median
Initial investigations showed that both suspects did not have past criminal records and tested negative for drugs. https://t.co/UpFVEQ9YqJ
- Aug 23, 2026
The six Nordic FIFA members -- Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the Faroe Islands -- met in Helsinki and issued a rare joint statement backing calls for Infantino's resignation from three major regional confederations. https://t.co/4Qa80Et0jP
- Aug 18, 20265.0x their median
Wooi Yik, meanwhile, feels his time with a new partner over the past month has helped him add something different to his game. https://t.co/SgFiClZRm5
- Aug 18, 20265.0x their median
Jewellery exports rose 9.3 per cent to RM10.1 billion in 2025, with personal ornaments accounting for 85.5 per cent of total exports, reflecting strong international confidence in Malaysian craftsmanship and quality. https://t.co/aT3mLP9UJd
- Aug 23, 2026
The incident came to light when family members were unable to contact them. https://t.co/6vz2IfNY7B
- Aug 19, 20264.0x their median
A net inflow of 39,800 Hong Kong residents was recorded during the period from mid-2025 to mid-2026. https://t.co/lm2WMSPIeR
- Aug 18, 20264.0x their median
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- Aug 23, 2026
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- Aug 23, 2026
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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 0 interactions against 1.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 154 original posts, its engagement rate beats 0% of 983 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 899 times each, and 0.056% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.053% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 154 posts sampled, 14% carry an image or video and 95% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 12 interactions.
- What is The Star's engagement rate on X?
- The Star (@staronline) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 154 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,706,234 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0%, The Star sits below the 10th percentile of the 9,668 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 @staronline have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 0% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (983 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 @staronline post?
- Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 5.33 posts per day across the measured window.