TheNewsMinute engagement report
@thenewsminute - 234K followers on X
Measured over 100 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 29, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 234K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 100 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% of 20,444 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 1.3K times each, and 0.305% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.56% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 100 posts sampled, 52% carry an image or video and 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 101 interactions, about 25x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #letmeexplain, #karnataka, #opinion.
Measured over 100 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 29, 2026. Recurring tags: #letmeexplain, #karnataka, #opinion.
Compared with accounts its own size
TheNewsMinute's engagement rate beats 8% 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 18% 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%, TheNewsMinute sits below the 10th percentile of the 205,261 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 12:00 UTC, and Thursday 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 | 52% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 97% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 52% 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.
- 97% 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 212 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
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 29, 202625x their median
Parents of Akash Delison, a victim of custodial torture, were placed under house detention for two days amid concerns that they could disrupt CM Vijay's convoy, ahead of his visit to Madurai. https://t.co/3cFCpP94QK
- Sep 10, 20269.5x their median
A year ago, the government said quarterly GDP was ₹86 lakh crore. A year later, that figure was quietly revised down to ₹80 lakh crore, making this year's growth look bigger on paper. @PoojaPrasanna4 explains the trick in #LetMeExplain. Watch: https://t.co/euwhVjAiXy https://t.co/YHernKKPpl
- Sep 10, 20266.5x their median
Tamil Nadu CM Vijay and actor Ajith Kumar, together in the UK this weekend? Here's what's reportedly being planned at Silverstone. Read the full story on our weekly political newsletter, Powertrip. https://t.co/L23kLFpTlq https://t.co/rIA4pvLqF7
- Sep 10, 20266.3x their median
A year ago, the government said quarterly GDP was ₹86 lakh crore. A year later, that figure was quietly revised down to ₹80 lakh crore, making this year's growth look bigger on paper. @PoojaPrasanna4 explains the trick in #LetMeExplain. https://t.co/nd4uAcS89q https://t.co/xNCdAW8VRI
- Sep 22, 20265.0x their median
“If tomorrow the tahsildar of Charminar asks you to supply men and machinery to demolish the High Court, who is at fault?” That was the question hanging in the courtroom when the Telangana High Court grilled the Commissioner of HYDRAA. Tomorrow, we publish our deep-dive investigation into the agency reshaping Hyderabad. (1/5)
- Sep 10, 20264.8x their median
‘History cannot be changed’: Stalin responds to CM Vijay’s gesture in Assembly https://t.co/u3ShKtIKCl
- Sep 3, 20264.5x their median
A 40-year-old manhunt, a sensational “exclusive,” and the wrong man at the center of it —our full investigation on TNM. COMING SOON ‼️ https://t.co/CwHsoINbTM
- Sep 28, 20264.0x their median
How did sexual assault allegations involving minors go uninvestigated despite senior police being alerted first in 2024? Catch the full discussion with @dhanyarajendran @PoojaPrasanna4, and @Ahmedshabbir20 YouTube: https://t.co/JG6oWojHyK Apple: https://t.co/lIfJtIr6ww https://t.co/0lgjuvypuO
- Sep 10, 20263.3x their median
While the mafia comprising contractors, civic officials and politicians share the spoils, caste exploitation, labour violations and health hazards continue to mark the lives of Pourakarmikas, write Ashna Singh and Clifton D'Rozario. https://t.co/JoVQIJtsbL
- Sep 9, 20263.3x their median
Geeta was supposed to leave home on July 12 and marry Prem within days. Instead, she died. Her family said snake bite; a month later, her parents faced allegations of murder. In Sanjegaon, the questions — and the silence — remain. @tupriya2911 reports https://t.co/Yfm2ehguhF
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 4 interactions against 234K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 100 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% of 20,444 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 1.3K times each, and 0.305% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.56% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 100 posts sampled, 52% carry an image or video and 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 101 interactions, about 25x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #letmeexplain, #karnataka, #opinion.
- What is TheNewsMinute's engagement rate on X?
- TheNewsMinute (@thenewsminute) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 100 original posts from the last 30 days against 234,012 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, TheNewsMinute sits below the 10th percentile of the 205,261 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 @thenewsminute have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 8% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @thenewsminute post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.37 posts per day across the measured window.