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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.013% |
| 50th percentile | 0.083% |
| 75th percentile | 0.447% |
| 90th percentile | 2.08% |
| 99th percentile | 143.1% |
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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 255K |
| Monday | +1% | 328K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 353K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 317K |
| Thursday | -2% | 269K |
| Friday | -3% | 276K |
| Saturday | +3% | 249K |
Best tweets
- Aug 26, 2026103x their median
Wes Streeting: People can’t cope with a gay man running the army https://t.co/JtFqw9QKyq
- Aug 29, 202611x their median
🔺EXCLUSIVE: James Cleverly is stepping down from the shadow cabinet so he can run to be the next mayor of London https://t.co/jgmWTWWVQG
- Aug 26, 20269.7x their median
Why does the UK have the most expensive energy in Europe? https://t.co/4zkxhMCZh3
- Aug 28, 20266.7x their median
Miatta Fahnbulleh defends sending her children to private school https://t.co/mWzdOYAADB
- Aug 24, 20265.7x their median
I won’t be unrealistic about tax rises, says Andy Burnham https://t.co/rtSIUm7V4i
- Aug 26, 20263.7x their median
How could Andy Burnham offer help with UK energy bills? https://t.co/Jy7pPWvVwM
- Aug 25, 20263.0x their median
PM refuses to rule out tax rises. But what levers could he pull? https://t.co/MXbsVm1QOd
- Aug 29, 20262.7x their median
James Cleverly: Sadiq Khan has let down London, our capital needs a champion https://t.co/vAv9ROLPKh
- Aug 27, 20262.3x their median
Best way to get young into work is to cut employers’ burden https://t.co/RSEthtLF0Y
- Aug 28, 20262.0x their median
Andy Burnham warned over ‘stupid’ tax raid on capital gains https://t.co/iFmIhch2Sd
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.