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The Age engagement report

@theage - 878K followers on X

Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 29, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.001%
of 878K followers
Per impression
0.116%
4.3K views on a typical post
Reach
0.49%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
5
interactions (median)
Saved
0.023%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.33/day
active 17% of days
Peak time
03:00 UTC
Sunday

A typical post picks up 5 interactions against 878K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Posts are seen about 4.3K times each, and 0.116% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.49% 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, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 31% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 458 interactions, about 92x its own typical post.

Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 29, 2026.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.001%, The Age sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,482 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%
p750.696%
p902.61%
p9982.9%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 212,482 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,403 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 percentile0.696%
90th percentile2.61%
99th percentile82.9%

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 03:00 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.

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: 03:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 03:00 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: Sunday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Sunday
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 video31% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link100% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 31% 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 156 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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 26, 202692x their median

    Meghan, Duchess of Sussex will return to the MasterChef Australia kitchen next year, as co-host of the rebooted Junior MasterChef Australia. The Duchess will appear alongside MasterChef Australia judge Poh Ling Yeow in the series. Read more: https://t.co/kF7Pg0MxHN https://t.co/mkQrrtRZCn

    39264029.0K viewsView on X
  • Oct 26, 202661x their median

    An orange cockatoo fills Haines’ vacant seat as colleagues fight back tears paying tribute. Follow live: https://t.co/99iLJfdUGZ https://t.co/li4VHFoQZV

    252500112K viewsView on X
  • Oct 25, 202627x their median

    Jess Wilson vows to ban ā€˜Globalise the intifada’ phrase if elected https://t.co/KrzdgE7LdX

    881303644K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 202626x their median

    ā€˜Teaching boys to respect girls isn’t woke’: Clare snaps at Taylor over manosphere debate https://t.co/qZxfUtp8rJ

    891822312K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 202620x their median

    One Nation MP concedes migration target ā€˜not too different’ from Labor’s. https://t.co/62PpRdHyPG

    74240316K viewsView on X
  • Sep 21, 202618x their median

    Ben King makes it official: He wants to join Hawthorn. https://t.co/vTi0tShnD0

    8180268K viewsView on X
  • Sep 20, 202617x their median

    Activist group using AI to flood ABC with thousands of bias complaints. https://t.co/PV4OCx1qnn

    51260915K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 202615x their median

    Talent manager Ralph Carr has been sentenced to six years in jail with a non-parole period of four years for the rape and sexual assault of a woman more than 30 years his junior. Read more: https://t.co/gC8fEkCZJU https://t.co/LrhjHXoUPj

    6190615K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 202614x their median

    Women at centre of Swans saga set to sue stars and club https://t.co/jGQ7vafGGg

    378023280K viewsView on X
  • Sep 21, 202612x their median

    The separatist Exclusive Brethren, whose secretive multimillion-dollar campaign supporting the Coalition at the last federal election is under intense scrutiny, has swung behind One Nation. https://t.co/tLaOfROkX7

    331701036K 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 5 interactions against 878K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Posts are seen about 4.3K times each, and 0.116% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.49% 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, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 31% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 458 interactions, about 92x its own typical post.

What is The Age's engagement rate on X?
The Age (@theage) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 39 original posts from the last 30 days against 877,504 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, The Age sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,482 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 @theage have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @theage post?
Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.

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