EnglishThe Independent is on Twitter (X) as @Independent, with 3,410,374 followers and 1,579,582 posts. It lost 44 followers in the last 7 days and 663 in the last 30 days. A typical post draws 6 interactions, an engagement rate of 0% per follower.
Insights
Over the last 30 days @Independent lost 663 followers (-0.02%). In the last 7 days the change was -44 followers. Its strongest tracked day added +699 followers on Oct 23, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 3.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 1002 original posts, its engagement rate beats 3% of 21,624 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 5.0K times each, and 0.121% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.145% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline.
Measured over 1002 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #thetalkshow, #amazonprimeday, #dualipa.
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Best tracked day: +699 followers on 2026-10-23.
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