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
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%.
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 | 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 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.
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 | 31% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% 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
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- Oct 26, 202661x their median
An orange cockatoo fills Hainesā vacant seat as colleagues fight back tears paying tribute. Follow live: https://t.co/99iLJfdUGZ https://t.co/li4VHFoQZV
- Oct 25, 202627x their median
Jess Wilson vows to ban āGlobalise the intifadaā phrase if elected https://t.co/KrzdgE7LdX
- Sep 3, 202626x their median
āTeaching boys to respect girls isnāt wokeā: Clare snaps at Taylor over manosphere debate https://t.co/qZxfUtp8rJ
- Aug 23, 202620x their median
One Nation MP concedes migration target ānot too differentā from Laborās. https://t.co/62PpRdHyPG
- Sep 21, 202618x their median
Ben King makes it official: He wants to join Hawthorn. https://t.co/vTi0tShnD0
- Sep 20, 202617x their median
Activist group using AI to flood ABC with thousands of bias complaints. https://t.co/PV4OCx1qnn
- 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
- Aug 21, 202614x their median
Women at centre of Swans saga set to sue stars and club https://t.co/jGQ7vafGGg
- 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
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.