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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.146% |
| 75th percentile | 0.697% |
| 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 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.
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 | 84% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 89% 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
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.