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Times Politics engagement report

@timespolitics - 442K followers on X

Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 442K followers
Per impression
0.061%
4.9K views on a typical post
Reach
1.11%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
3
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.3/day
active 20% of days
Peak time
19:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 3 interactions against 442K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% of 4,310 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 4.9K times each, and 0.061% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.11% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 308 interactions, about 103x its own typical post.

Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Times Politics's engagement rate beats 6% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,310 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 4% 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%, Times Politics sits below the 10th percentile of the 41,810 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.013%.

p100.002%
p250.013%
p50 (median)0.083%
p750.447%
p902.08%
p99143.1%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 41,810 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 89,419 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.013%
50th percentile0.083%
75th percentile0.447%
90th percentile2.08%
99th percentile143.1%

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 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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: 19:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 19:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%58K
01:00 UTC-2%59K
02:00 UTC-3%58K
03:00 UTC-4%62K
04:00 UTC-6%50K
05:00 UTC-5%48K
06:00 UTC-5%56K
07:00 UTC-4%60K
08:00 UTC-4%70K
09:00 UTC-4%81K
10:00 UTC-3%83K
11:00 UTC-3%91K
12:00 UTC-2%100K
13:00 UTC-2%109K
14:00 UTC-3%112K
15:00 UTC-2%116K
16:00 UTC-4%113K
17:00 UTC-3%105K
18:00 UTC-2%98K
19:00 UTC-2%92K
20:00 UTC-1%86K
21:00 UTC-1%76K
22:00 UTC-2%66K
23:00 UTC-1%59K
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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%255K
Monday+1%328K
Tuesday-2%353K
Wednesday-4%317K
Thursday-2%269K
Friday-3%276K
Saturday+3%249K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

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  • Aug 24, 20265.7x their median

    I won’t be unrealistic about tax rises, says Andy Burnham https://t.co/rtSIUm7V4i

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  • Aug 26, 20263.7x their median

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    124410.0K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20263.0x their median

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    53105.5K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20262.7x their median

    James Cleverly: Sadiq Khan has let down London, our capital needs a champion https://t.co/vAv9ROLPKh

    31403.2K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20262.3x their median

    Best way to get young into work is to cut employers’ burden https://t.co/RSEthtLF0Y

    61004.3K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20262.0x their median

    Andy Burnham warned over ‘stupid’ tax raid on capital gains https://t.co/iFmIhch2Sd

    30305.1K 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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 3 interactions against 442K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% of 4,310 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 4.9K times each, and 0.061% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.11% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 308 interactions, about 103x its own typical post.

What is Times Politics's engagement rate on X?
Times Politics (@timespolitics) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 39 original posts from the last 30 days against 442,111 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, Times Politics sits below the 10th percentile of the 41,810 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 @timespolitics have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 6% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,310 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 @timespolitics post?
Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.3 posts per day across the measured window.

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