The Wire engagement report
@thewire_in - 1.6M followers on X
Measured over 831 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 8, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 27 interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Posts are seen about 7.4K times each, and 0.363% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.453% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 49.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 831 posts sampled, 21% carry an image or video, 49% are part of a thread and 84% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 493x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #india, #votechori, #delhi.
Measured over 831 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 8, 2026. Recurring tags: #india, #votechori, #delhi.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.002%, The Wire sits below the 10th percentile of the 156,839 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.022%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.003% |
| 25th percentile | 0.022% |
| 50th percentile | 0.128% |
| 75th percentile | 0.604% |
| 90th percentile | 2.32% |
| 99th percentile | 83.4% |
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 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 | 21% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 84% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 21% 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.
- 84% 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 185 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
- Oct 5, 2026493x their median
#BREAKING "Modified Form 6 has not been approved by us, let us be very clear" - CJI Surya Kant. #ElectionCommisisonofIndia
- Oct 4, 2026470x their median
Neha Bora taken by the police from India gate in an unnumbered police car! Is this kidnapping by the police of a peaceful protestor? https://t.co/85k59TGhLG
- Sep 25, 2026419x their median
The Wire Special Correspondent @IRFANfromSlums, who was detained while reporting at Jantar Mantar, was released at night after several hours in detention https://t.co/SLSUS54UMX
- Sep 25, 2026305x their median
The Wire’s special correspondent Irfan (@IRFANfromSlums) was detained at Jantar Mantar, and his microphone was thrown away https://t.co/x5zFUEbC3i
- Sep 26, 2026218x their median
‘Stain on BJP Govt’: Muslim Man Killed, Head Crushed With Stone Outside Rajasthan Police Station @manwithaquill reports https://t.co/anPH4awyBG
- Sep 25, 2026207x their median
AISA President Neha Bora (@neha_aisa) Questions Police Over Lack of Name Tags https://t.co/ibDC3AS6Tu
- Sep 20, 2026173x their median
Uttar Pradesh: FIR Filed Against 22-Year-Old for Recording Poor Conditions at Government School “They don’t want us to show their failures and shortcomings,” said Gaurav Bharti, who is a student at Kannauj Degree College, reports @omar7rashid. https://t.co/fH1zDt9teP
- Sep 26, 2026165x their median
Former Kerala Chief Secretary Says Gyanesh Kumar Tried to Persuade Him to Contest From BJP https://t.co/JkgZ555CTN
- Sep 8, 2026125x their median
#TheInterview by @kthaparoffice: SIR is a scam and Election Commission should be criminally prosecuted: @DrSYQuraishi and @_YogendraYadav Watch Now: https://t.co/BoXyLI2rHJ https://t.co/PBlwcCiV7D
- Aug 18, 2026121x their median
After a Delay of Two Years, PM CARES Discloses it Had Rs 8,452 Crore by March 31, 2025 There is nothing known about how and from where the monies have been collected, how they have been spent, and also by what criteria, reports @arvindgunasekar. https://t.co/SbrzNaJN8b
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 27 interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Posts are seen about 7.4K times each, and 0.363% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.453% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 49.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 831 posts sampled, 21% carry an image or video, 49% are part of a thread and 84% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 493x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #india, #votechori, #delhi.
- What is The Wire's engagement rate on X?
- The Wire (@thewire_in) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 831 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,639,386 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, The Wire sits below the 10th percentile of the 156,839 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 @thewire_in have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @thewire_in post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 49.7 posts per day across the measured window.