TOI Bengaluru engagement report
@TOIBengaluru - 166K followers on X
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 23, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 73 interactions against 166K followers, an engagement rate of 0.044%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 44% of 21,185 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 8.7K times each, and 0.835% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.26% 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, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.3K interactions, about 45x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #bengaluru, #karnataka, #delhi.
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 23, 2026. Recurring tags: #bengaluru, #karnataka, #delhi.
Compared with accounts its own size
TOI Bengaluru's engagement rate beats 44% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 38% 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 0.044%, TOI Bengaluru sits above the 25th percentile of the 212,349 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.025% to 0.146%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.146% |
| 75th percentile | 0.696% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 83.1% |
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 09:00 UTC, and Thursday 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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 100% 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.
- 0% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 301 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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
- Oct 7, 202645x their median
#Blast on #Bengaluru footpath ! A transformer box on the footpath outside the Amazon office on Baglur Main Road exploded, injuring two persons walking on the pavement. One fell and suffered severe burns to his hands; the other had minor injuries. Another girl student escaped unhurt. (📹 was captured by Arun G, a parent on the way to drop his kids to school) How are these transformers allowed on busy footpaths? What if child or a pregnant woman or person with disability was walking? Who is responsible? @timesofindia
- Sep 29, 202636x their median
#Bengaluru: The autodriver, who attacked two female commuters after they cancelled the trip, has been arrested by HSR Layout police. @timesofindia https://t.co/82O4aFkBDx
- Oct 8, 202635x their median
#Bengaluru’s broken roads are turning into death traps! Caught on camera: Motorists struggling to pull their vehicles out of ‘surprise & shocker pits’ on the Gunjur-Doddakaneli Road (which connects to Carmelaram) in the tech corridor. Will these roads ever become motorable? @timesofindia (📹: Fwd)
- Aug 31, 202626x their median
Do you remember seeing a minister standing next to a garbage collection vehicle, actually supervising the process? On Monday morning (starting @ 5:30 am), #Bengaluru Development Minister Krishna Byre Gowda did just that — personally overseeing garbage collection in Mallasandra and Dasarahalli to understand ground realities and how the system can be made more efficient. Leadership, quite literally, at street level.
- Oct 8, 202623x their median
Massive SIR protest in #Bengaluru CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke, Sourav Das, actor Prakash Raj and YouTuber-activist Dhruv Rathee joined a rally at Freedom Park on Thursday, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. @timesofindia https://t.co/kbcq1r0P8d
- Sep 2, 202618x their median
No gunmen, no sycophants… On learning that their fellow commuter was Bengaluru Development minister Krishna Byre Gowda, Metro rail passengers lined up to take selfies & shake hands with him. The minister had inspected Majestic station before boarding the train. @timesofindia https://t.co/WSSx19Q3zE
- Sep 3, 202617x their median
In #Bengaluru: Slaughter & sale of meat will be prohibited across the city on Friday on account of Krishna Janmashtami, says the order from Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) 👇 https://t.co/H7EoSIRdOe
- Oct 12, 20269.3x their median
A few cops behaving like goons, bringing disrepute to the entire #Bengaluru police force. As photojournalists rushed to cover the police action against SIR protesters, cops allegedly snatched cameras and damaged phones. Men in mufti—one in a pink checked shirt, another in blue stripes—joined the assault. Who provoked whom (check the video)? Who will hold the cops accountable? @timesofindia
- Oct 6, 20266.9x their median
#Bengaluru: Manager booked for asking Kannada staffers to learn Hindi or quit A 31-year-old shift manager, Ashok, has been booked for allegedly threatening workers at a rented storehouse in Madanayakanahalli near Nelamangala, asking them to learn Hindi or leave their jobs. Ashok later apologised for what he had said. @timesofindia
- Oct 8, 20266.8x their median
#CJP protest in #Bengaluru YouTuber Dhruv Rathee addresses the crowd gathered at Freedom Park here to demand the resignation of CEC Gyanesh Kumar over messing up the SIR exercise by indulging in selective deletions. @timesofindia (📷 by TOI Chethan Shivakumar) https://t.co/TDl0u3s0hk
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 73 interactions against 166K followers, an engagement rate of 0.044%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 44% of 21,185 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 8.7K times each, and 0.835% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.26% 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, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.3K interactions, about 45x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #bengaluru, #karnataka, #delhi.
- What is TOI Bengaluru's engagement rate on X?
- TOI Bengaluru (@TOIBengaluru) has an engagement rate of 0.044%, based on the median interactions across 39 original posts from the last 30 days against 166,204 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.044%, TOI Bengaluru sits above the 25th percentile of the 212,349 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 @TOIBengaluru have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 44% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @TOIBengaluru post?
- Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.