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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

Per follower
0.002%
of 1.6M followers
Per impression
0.363%
7.4K views on a typical post
Reach
0.45%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
27
interactions (median)
Saved
0.013%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
49.7/day
active 100% of days
Peak time
12:00 UTC
Tuesday

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%.

p100.003%
p250.022%
p50 (median)0.128%
p750.604%
p902.32%
p9983.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 156,839 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 26,058 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 percentile0.003%
25th percentile0.022%
50th percentile0.128%
75th percentile0.604%
90th percentile2.32%
99th percentile83.4%

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.

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: 12:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 12:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video21% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link84% 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

    9.7K2.4K5316731.2M viewsView on X
  • 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

    9.7K2.6K30965102K viewsView on X
  • 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

    8.9K2.2K11619123K viewsView on X
  • 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

    6.3K1.8K983584K viewsView on X
  • 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

    3.6K2.1K10281186K viewsView on X
  • Sep 25, 2026207x their median

    AISA President Neha Bora (@neha_aisa) Questions Police Over Lack of Name Tags https://t.co/ibDC3AS6Tu

    4.2K1.2K1401338K viewsView on X
  • 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

    3.4K1.2K4639270K viewsView on X
  • Sep 26, 2026165x their median

    Former Kerala Chief Secretary Says Gyanesh Kumar Tried to Persuade Him to Contest From BJP https://t.co/JkgZ555CTN

    3.2K1.1K875354K viewsView on X
  • 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

    2.2K97311253209K viewsView on X
  • 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

    2.4K7638144155K 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.

Recurring topics

#india#votechori#delhi#replug#theinterview

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.

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