WTOP engagement report
@WTOP - 273K followers on X
Measured over 57 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 273K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 57 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% of 21,185 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 2.3K times each, and 0.176% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.832% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 57 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 44 interactions, about 11x its own typical post.
Measured over 57 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 27, 2026. Recurring tag: #collegefootballcorner.
Compared with accounts its own size
WTOP's engagement rate beats 8% 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 10% 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 0.002%, WTOP sits below the 10th percentile of the 213,098 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.147% |
| 75th percentile | 0.698% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 82.9% |
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 14:00 UTC, and Sunday 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 182 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
- Sep 20, 202611x their median
NEWS ALERT: President Donald Trump says his proposed arch would also serve as a "top grade Military Complex." https://t.co/3NUSrIs8FZ
- Sep 5, 202611x their median
A 16-year-old girl died and 21-year-old man was wounded in a shooting during an event that police said drew thousands of people to Old Town Manassas, Virginia, on Friday. https://t.co/PQOJxy3lEt
- Sep 5, 20268.5x their median
PHOTOS: East Potomac Park, including the East Potomac Golf Links, was created by a congressional act in 1897, which established the park for the “recreation and the pleasure of the people.” The historic park, especially the golf course, has caught the eye of President Donald Trump, who wants to turn it into a world-class golf venue. https://t.co/wT8pZiGHsg
- Oct 24, 20268.0x their median
D.C. United is making a pitch to District officials to get in on the enthusiasm over soccer with a public-private partnership for improvements, such as a new roof at Audi Field. https://t.co/nOFAWTvuBg
- Sep 6, 20267.3x their median
ICE has lodged a detainer against a man charged in a wrong-way crash on I-270 that killed a mother and daughter in Montgomery County, Maryland. https://t.co/hEmwHcI6lt
- Sep 5, 20265.0x their median
A disruptive passenger was restrained and duct-taped to a seat as his flight was diverted to make an emergency landing at BWI Marshal Airport Thursday night, photos and video from other passengers showed. https://t.co/zAjgxVDTV6
- Sep 20, 20264.8x their median
The latest attack brings the number of people who have been killed in boat strikes by the U.S. military to at least 231 in 69 strikes since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls “narcoterrorists” almost a year ago. https://t.co/fyF8cYo1t7
- Sep 19, 20264.8x their median
“I think the Trump administration should be recognized as having saved the Kennedy Center because nobody else could do it.” https://t.co/rp0JnWi7hE
- Oct 25, 20264.5x their median
Tens of thousands of runners hit the streets Sunday for the 51st Marine Corps Marathon, traveling from Arlington, through parts of D.C. and back into Virginia. https://t.co/4xWyYoWNoc
- Oct 25, 20264.5x their median
Former President Barack Obama on Saturday seized on what he described as cruelty and indecency. https://t.co/zr4bptAzrC
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 4 interactions against 273K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 57 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% of 21,185 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 2.3K times each, and 0.176% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.832% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 57 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 44 interactions, about 11x its own typical post.
- What is WTOP's engagement rate on X?
- WTOP (@WTOP) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 57 original posts from the last 30 days against 272,653 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, WTOP sits below the 10th percentile of the 213,098 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 @WTOP have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 8% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 @WTOP post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.