News18 engagement report
@CNNnews18 - 4.6M followers on X
Measured over 520 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1 interaction against 4.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 520 original posts, its engagement rate beats 0% of 3,774 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 1.8K times each, and 0.055% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.039% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 17.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 520 posts sampled, 57% carry an image or video and 45% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 287 interactions, about 287x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #breakingnews, #india, #bjp.
Measured over 520 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #breakingnews, #india, #bjp.
Compared with accounts its own size
News18's engagement rate beats 0% 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 3% 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%, News18 sits below 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 16:00 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 24, 2026287x their median
Twenty-two cricket legends, including Gavaskar and Kapil Dev, appeal for better medical care for jailed Imran Khan amid health concerns #ImranKhan #Pakistan #ImranKhanHealth #KapilDev #SunilGavaskar #Cricket | @ShivaniGupta_5 https://t.co/aXeKI1Gz7S
- Aug 31, 202671x their median
Aneet Padda Stars In Hunkkaar – The Roar With Fatima Sana Shaikh; Priyanka Chopra Backs Courtroom Drama https://t.co/vWndlNdvdj #AneetPadda
- Aug 24, 202654x their median
Debunking Myths: Nitin Shridhar on the True Essence of Manusmriti 'Manusmriti has been unfortunately too much politicized. So when text is politicized then there cannot be honest discussion' Nithin Sridhar (@nkgrock)– Director, INDICA Moksha and Author of Chatuh Shloki Manusmriti @AnchorAnandN | #TheRightStand #RahulGandhi #WomenEmpowerment #Manusmriti
- Aug 25, 202625x their median
#BJP | A major BJP power shift could be taking shape ahead of 2029. Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath are reportedly being considered for key roles in the BJP’s powerful parliamentary board as the party looks at a strategic leadership overhaul. #YogiAdityanath #DevendraFadnavis #RSS #TheHardFacts | @RShivshankar
- Aug 29, 202618x their median
Comedian Samay Raina thanked fans for the overwhelming response to Episode 5 of India’s Got Latent. In an apparent reference to the controversy surrounding the show, Raina shared Eminem’s The Way I Am, highlighting the lyric, “In the paper, the news, every day I am.” #SamayRaina #IndiasGotLatent #Eminem #TheWayIAm #Comedy
- Aug 16, 202617x their median
#BreakingNews | Home Minister Amit Shah launched a sharp attack on Congress over the alleged interruption of Vande Mataram, saying Sonia Gandhi "still does not understand its significance." Shah said, "140 crore people of India are watching you" and demanded that Congress leaders apologise to Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's legacy and the people of the country. Rashid Alvi, Congress, shares insights @pradip103, BJP, shares insights @DhantaNews @Elizasherine shares details #AmitShah #VandeMataram #SoniaGandhi #Congress | @AmanKayamHai_
- Aug 31, 202616x their median
Top Actor Reportedly Took Pay Cut For Kissing Scene With 21-Year-Old Madhuri Dixit, Left Her Bleeding https://t.co/pmSI5ecmJ2 #MadhuriDixit
- Aug 31, 202615x their median
#Kerala | ‘Women unsafe in country until Islamic laws imposed’: Top Imam body backs Kerala cleric’s mediaeval call Smash Patriacry Raga Silent? Watch #TheHardFacts with @RShivshankar #WomenSafety #IslamicLaws #Kerala #KeralaNews #KeralaCleric #Imam https://t.co/Bzxp1En50P
- Aug 25, 202615x their median
#Breaking: Big statement from Ex-CDS on Operation Sindoor on how the double strikes on Pakistan bases unfolded Exclusive Inputs: @manojkumargupta @LtGenDPPandey weighs in | @AnchorAnandN decodes on #TheRightStand https://t.co/lgSIRLPyVS
- Aug 31, 202614x their median
Aishwarya Rai Poses With Brother Aditya Rai In Rare Raksha Bandhan Pic, Aaradhya Joins Family Celebration https://t.co/Nl16XKBBkt #AishwaryaRai
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.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 1 interaction against 4.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 520 original posts, its engagement rate beats 0% of 3,774 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 1.8K times each, and 0.055% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.039% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 17.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 520 posts sampled, 57% carry an image or video and 45% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 287 interactions, about 287x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #breakingnews, #india, #bjp.
- What is News18's engagement rate on X?
- News18 (@CNNnews18) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 520 original posts from the last 30 days against 4,600,230 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0%, News18 sits below 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 @CNNnews18 have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 0% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% 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 @CNNnews18 post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 17.33 posts per day across the measured window.