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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP engagement report

@hkfp - 415K followers on X

Measured over 119 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 26, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.004%
of 415K followers
Per impression
0.396%
3.8K views on a typical post
Reach
0.91%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
15
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
4.07/day
active 57% of days
Peak time
08:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 15 interactions against 415K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 119 original posts, its engagement rate beats 22% 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 3.8K times each, and 0.396% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.914% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 119 posts sampled, 84% carry an image or video and 89% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 177 interactions, about 12x its own typical post.

Measured over 119 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 26, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP's engagement rate beats 22% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 26% 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 0.004%, Hong Kong Free Press HKFP sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,805 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.146%
p750.697%
p902.61%
p9983.1%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 212,805 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,448 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 percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.146%
75th percentile0.697%
90th percentile2.61%
99th percentile83.1%

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 08:00 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: 08:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 08:00 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 video84% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link89% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 84% 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.
  • 89% 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 257 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

  • Aug 28, 202612x their median

    An activist who once organised annual vigils to commemorate the Tiananmen crackdown has said that a Hong Kong court’s decision to convict her under national security legislation amounts to saying that “pursuing democracy is a crime.” In full: https://t.co/PlB4gRHCUv File photo: Kris Cheng/HKFP.

    11156825.6K viewsView on X
  • Sep 2, 20269.6x their median

    Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong is set to plead guilty to his second national security charge at the High Court on Wednesday morning. The 29-year-old stands accused of conspiring to collude with foreign forces in 2020. Police officers deployed in large numbers to the court, where Wong's supporters arrived to witness the proceedings. The activist, who is already in jail for a national security offence linked to an unofficial democratic primary, faces up to life imprisonment for the foreign collusion charge. Photos: Kyle Lam/HKFP.

    91436416K viewsView on X
  • Sep 6, 20269.4x their median

    [Members only] We look at the culture of student initiation antics, the closure of another indy bookstore, and what life behind bars has been like for activist Joshua Wong. In full: https://t.co/fuwyXXJY8O Photo: CUHK & The Collective, screenshot. https://t.co/n9aj0LnYp5

    11524208.6K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 20268.5x their median

    1/ Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan were convicted of incitement to subversion under a Beijing-imposed national security law earlier this month. https://t.co/w6xso7tq0q

    77401007.1K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20268.4x their median

    Tiananmen vigil activists Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan and Albert Ho, and the now-defunct pro-democracy group they led, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, returned to court on Friday for mitigation proceedings. Chow's mitigation statement in full: https://t.co/GyrP7nx0Ny File photo: Candice Chau/HKFP.

    7644428.7K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 20266.3x their median

    The area below an overhead electronic screen at Hong Kong airport's revamped Terminal 2 was cordoned off on Saturday after the display was seen dangling in mid-air. The marine-themed display fell around seven metres from its 15-metre high position. Firefighters attended the scene. There were no injuries. "Airport Authority Hong Kong takes the incident very seriously and will conduct a detailed investigation into the cause of the incident, with view to further enhancing the stability of the system," the Airport Authority said. Video: mimi.leung.963, via Threads.

    62244413K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 20265.9x their median

    A Hong Kong court has upheld the convictions of Cardinal Joseph Zen and four other appellants over failing to properly register their now-defunct fund that supported protesters during the 2019 protests and unrest. In full: https://t.co/CsR6osP8wl Photo: Hans Tse/HKFP. https://t.co/ndi1Z4VGFO

    5229446.0K viewsView on X
  • Sep 7, 20265.3x their median

    Police have re-arrested three people on suspicion of sedition, after previously apprehending them outside Prince Edward station on the anniversary of a 2019 incident when police stormed MTR trains on the platform. In full: https://t.co/YNNwyMBYQM File photo: May James/HKFP. https://t.co/H2FP324Yn3

    4629315.5K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 20264.5x their median

    HKFP Lens: Standing in Central's Connaught Place since 1976, the General Post Office is now seen by many as an icon of modern Hong Kong heritage - but the previously underappreciated building will soon be torn down to make way for a new shopping mall. Full gallery: https://t.co/UTzgw16nrO Photos: Kyle Lam/HKFP.

    45138112K viewsView on X
  • Sep 25, 20264.2x their median

    Questioning why the government will not release a list of books banned in Hong Kong or specify where the red lines lie for seditious content is a form of “soft resistance,” the outgoing head of the police’s national security department has said. In full: https://t.co/nwFKiwsM9R Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.

    302301011K 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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 15 interactions against 415K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 119 original posts, its engagement rate beats 22% 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 3.8K times each, and 0.396% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.914% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 119 posts sampled, 84% carry an image or video and 89% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 177 interactions, about 12x its own typical post.

What is Hong Kong Free Press HKFP's engagement rate on X?
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP (@hkfp) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 119 original posts from the last 30 days against 414,850 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.004%, Hong Kong Free Press HKFP sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,805 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 @hkfp have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 22% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter 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 @hkfp post?
Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.07 posts per day across the measured window.

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