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DIE ZEIT engagement report

@zeitonline - 2.4M followers on X

Measured over 879 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 2.4M followers
Per impression
0.352%
3.4K views on a typical post
Reach
0.14%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
12
interactions (median)
Saved
0.029%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
29.3/day
active 100% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 12 interactions against 2.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 879 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 20,182 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 3.4K times each, and 0.352% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.141% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 29.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 879 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.5K interactions, about 208x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #aids, #auto, #bnd.

Measured over 879 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026. Recurring tags: #aids, #auto, #bnd.

Compared with accounts its own size

DIE ZEIT's engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,182 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 24% 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%, DIE ZEIT sits below the 10th percentile of the 202,076 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.142%
p750.672%
p902.54%
p9982.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 202,076 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,928 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.142%
75th percentile0.672%
90th percentile2.54%
99th percentile82.5%

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 15:00 UTC, and Friday 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: 15:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 15:00 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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Friday
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 video0% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link100% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 0% 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.
  • 100% 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 183 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 6, 2026208x their median

    Die Bundestagsfraktion der SPD hat gegen die Wahl von Tobias Rausch demonstriert. Abgeordnete hielten das Grundgesetz in der Hand, Pistorius stimmte die Nationalhymne an. https://t.co/CNtx5Z6neb

    1.0K1811.2K8984K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 2026139x their median

    Beim AfD-Abgeordneten Sebastian Koch sind bei Durchsuchungen Waffen gefunden worden. Die Staatsanwaltschaft Halle ermittelt wegen Verstoßes gegen das Waffengesetz. https://t.co/cuO8A009kq

    1.1K3352334194K viewsView on X
  • Sep 24, 2026111x their median

    In einem offenen Brief kritisieren jüdische Berliner den Umgang mit der Linkspartei. Sie werfen Medien und Teilen der jüdischen Community »Instrumentalisierung« vor. https://t.co/Snzi2Q5tEQ

    9282461332646K viewsView on X
  • Sep 30, 2026101x their median

    Hape Kerkeling wirft der AfD Verfassungsfeindlichkeit vor. Er verlangte von den Parteien bei einer Rede im Thüringer Landtag, »endlich« ein Verbotsverfahren anzustoßen. https://t.co/4iEVIUWTZO

    510995683530K viewsView on X
  • Sep 28, 202673x their median

    Es werde viel über die Berliner Linke gestritten, sagt Grünen-Chef Banaszak. Die Wahlerfolge der AfD dagegen würden nahezu »schulterzuckend« zur Kenntnis genommen. https://t.co/U09lqLQZZN

    574941892125K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202661x their median

    Baden-Württembergs Ministerpräsident Özdemir und Verteidigungsminister Pistorius fordern ein AfD-Verbotsverfahren. Im Fokus sollen die völkischen Teile der Partei stehen. https://t.co/ARadhQlJKb

    4801121271643K viewsView on X
  • Oct 17, 202660x their median

    Kritik an der israelischen Regierung sei kein Antisemitismus, sagt die Linken-Vorsitzende Ines Schwerdtner. Die Vorwürfe gegen die Partei seien »ekelhaft«. https://t.co/FuVZCbAXFo

    50353152818K viewsView on X
  • Sep 29, 202659x their median

    Führende SPD-Politiker warnen, dass die AfD eine Gefahr für die Demokratie sei. Eine Bund-Länder-Gruppe solle noch in diesem Jahr ein Verbotsverfahren vorbereiten. https://t.co/0cBhHH238y

    341712871213K viewsView on X
  • Sep 17, 202650x their median

    Jürgen Klopps erster großer Auftritt hat nicht nur eine fußballerische Dimension. Er zeigt, wie man Patriotismus neu denkt – und die müde Mitte endlich elektrifiziert. https://t.co/2bdkjN1gYj

    43751981632K viewsView on X
  • Oct 8, 202648x their median

    Der CDU-Sozialflügel-Chef fordert Parteiausschlussverfahren, sollten CDU-Politiker für den AfD-Landtagspräsidenten gestimmt haben. Die Abgrenzung zur AfD sei verbindlich. https://t.co/SrIN3Jh7WR

    330531771712K 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

#aids#auto#bnd#gemüsedöner#hitze

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 12 interactions against 2.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 879 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 20,182 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 3.4K times each, and 0.352% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.141% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 29.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 879 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.5K interactions, about 208x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #aids, #auto, #bnd.

What is DIE ZEIT's engagement rate on X?
DIE ZEIT (@zeitonline) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 879 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,408,326 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, DIE ZEIT sits below the 10th percentile of the 202,076 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 @zeitonline have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,182 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 @zeitonline post?
Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 29.3 posts per day across the measured window.

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