Breaking News engagement report
@BreakingNews - 8.5M followers on X
Measured over 22 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 216 interactions against 8.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 22 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 149K times each, and 0.145% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.75% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.73 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 22 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.7K interactions, about 7.9x its own typical post.
Measured over 22 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Breaking News's engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 14% 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 0.003%, Breaking News sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 Monday 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 22, 20267.9x their median
BREAKING: Canada’s prime minister suspends trade talks with the U.S. and says he will match Trump’s 50% tariffs “dollar for dollar” as they go into effect. https://t.co/H4ygl6URzJ
- Aug 24, 20266.7x their median
BREAKING: Sean Grayson, ex-deputy convicted of killing Sonya Massey, dies six months into his sentence at age 32, attorney says. https://t.co/SDO4SgizS9
- Aug 29, 20265.9x their median
BREAKING: White House teleprompter operator ordered to pay $172K for placing prediction market bets on Trump’s speeches. https://t.co/t5QoAIN5Oj
- Jul 12, 20264.9x their median
BREAKING: Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who was elected to the Senate in 2003 and was a close political ally of President Donald Trump, has died, his office confirmed. He was 71. https://t.co/yA2Bi99z4N
- Aug 29, 20262.1x their median
BREAKING: Milo Yiannopoulos, the British far-right commentator, has been deported to the United Kingdom, DHS says. https://t.co/Y9Yz2yzSSW
- Aug 7, 20261.9x their median
PROJECTION: Trump-backed GOP Rep. Andy Ogles falls to a challenger backed by Tennessee’s governor, becoming the ninth House member to lose a primary this year. https://t.co/A8rrFw6JTT
- Jul 13, 20261.9x their median
BREAKING: Actor Sam Neill, who starred as Dr. Alan Grant in “Jurassic Park,” dies at 78. https://t.co/nLL1gEr73s
- Jul 5, 20261.7x their median
BREAKING: FIFA reinstates U.S. striker Folarin Balogun for the team’s World Cup match against Belgium, suspending his one-game ban for a red card. https://t.co/JLySRBvw1b
- Aug 1, 20261.6x their median
BREAKING: At least three dead and two injured in a shooting in Twin Falls, Idaho, authorities say. https://t.co/oiPjdY9HIo
- Aug 2, 2026
BREAKING: Trump pauses attacks on Iran, citing “perimeters of a deal” that would end Tehran’s “nuclear threat” and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. https://t.co/q0yWUjfqYk
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 216 interactions against 8.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 22 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 149K times each, and 0.145% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.75% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.73 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 22 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.7K interactions, about 7.9x its own typical post.
- What is Breaking News's engagement rate on X?
- Breaking News (@BreakingNews) has an engagement rate of 0.003%, based on the median interactions across 22 original posts from the last 30 days against 8,532,962 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.003%, Breaking News sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 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 @BreakingNews have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @BreakingNews post?
- Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.73 posts per day across the measured window.