The Wire engagement report
@thewire_in - 1.6M followers on X
Measured over 102 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 21, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 19 interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 102 original posts, its engagement rate beats 14% of 1,003 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 5.6K times each, and 0.341% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.347% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 102 posts sampled, 17% carry an image or video, 6% are part of a thread and 95% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.3K interactions, about 173x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #theinterview, #thewirewrap, #exclusive.
Measured over 102 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 21, 2026. Recurring tags: #theinterview, #thewirewrap, #exclusive.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Wire's engagement rate beats 14% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 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 26% 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 0.001%, The Wire sits above the 10th percentile of the 9,981 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.007%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.007% |
| 50th percentile | 0.047% |
| 75th percentile | 0.325% |
| 90th percentile | 2.60% |
| 99th percentile | 357.9% |
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 06:00 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% | 15K |
| 01:00 UTC | +4% | 15K |
| 02:00 UTC | -1% | 14K |
| 03:00 UTC | -2% | 15K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 05:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 06:00 UTC | -7% | 13K |
| 07:00 UTC | -6% | 14K |
| 08:00 UTC | -7% | 17K |
| 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% | 29K |
| 15:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 16:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 17:00 UTC | -1% | 28K |
| 18:00 UTC | +1% | 25K |
| 19:00 UTC | 0% | 24K |
| 20:00 UTC | 0% | 22K |
| 21:00 UTC | +1% | 19K |
| 22:00 UTC | +1% | 17K |
| 23:00 UTC | +1% | 15K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +8% | 59K |
| Monday | +8% | 72K |
| Tuesday | +1% | 94K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 78K |
| Thursday | -3% | 71K |
| Friday | -5% | 73K |
| Saturday | +2% | 64K |
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 | 17% of posts | +79% | +73% to +85% | 5.8K |
| Outbound link | 95% of posts | -49% | -50% to -47% | 6.1K |
| Typical length | - | -5% | -7% to -4% | 7.9K |
- 17% 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 192 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 18, 2026173x 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
- Aug 20, 2026113x their median
Bank of Baroda Writes Off Rs 35,715 Crore of Loans Above Rs 100 Crore, Refuses to Disclose Big Defaulters’ Names Under RTI Yogesh Sapkale ✍️ https://t.co/pRduaJdiTy
- Aug 18, 202647x their median
Dimagi Naxal | By Gubara Na Bharega Dobara Productions | @thewire_in https://t.co/AIrelb6nN0
- Aug 18, 202637x their median
‘Not a Single Person Died’, ‘Delhi Police Should be Praised’: Rijiju Defends Action on Protesters The Wire previously documented pellet gun use in Delhi, RTI responses showed ten people injured due to it. https://t.co/ii88tlrpz7
- Aug 18, 202630x their median
Bengal CJP Activist Whose Father Was Killed Says He Wants a School as Compensation https://t.co/wGdvBAOaOv
- Aug 18, 202628x their median
#TheInterview | "The young generation is more patriotic than many of those who run this country" @kthaparoffice is joined by @KapilSibal to discuss ‘dimaagi naxals,’ democracy, authoritarianism and the Constitution. Watch: https://t.co/bzyYCG2LCI https://t.co/qgOJ7YJJSt
- Aug 18, 202624x their median
4,192 Cases Pending Against MPs and MLAs Across Country, Some For More Than a Decade, Amicus Curiae Tells SC The report further adds that chief ministers of 14 of 28 states have criminal cases against them which are pending trials. https://t.co/H6zwc5Ao4o
- Aug 20, 202618x their median
PM Cares? | By: Serious Maamla Productions | @thewirehindi https://t.co/rEHm1FLkys
- Aug 18, 202615x their median
Citing Delhi’s Pollution, Top Badminton Player Says He Would Rather Pay $5,000 Fine Than Play in India: Reports https://t.co/fBhWBST6Kj
- Aug 21, 202613x their median
Ahead of Mohan Bhagwat's Foreign Trip, USCIRF Says Washington Should Impose Sanctions on Sangh Members The comments by the independent US agency's members come ahead of Bhagwat's trip to the US. https://t.co/OnXpLcdz9N
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 19 interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 102 original posts, its engagement rate beats 14% of 1,003 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 5.6K times each, and 0.341% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.347% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 102 posts sampled, 17% carry an image or video, 6% are part of a thread and 95% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.3K interactions, about 173x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #theinterview, #thewirewrap, #exclusive.
- What is The Wire's engagement rate on X?
- The Wire (@thewire_in) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 102 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,605,400 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, The Wire sits above the 10th percentile of the 9,981 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?
- Its engagement rate beats 14% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 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 @thewire_in post?
- Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.23 posts per day across the measured window.