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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.142% |
| 75th percentile | 0.672% |
| 90th percentile | 2.54% |
| 99th percentile | 82.5% |
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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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 | 0% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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 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.