Local 4 WDIV Detroit engagement report
@Local4News - 426K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 3 interactions against 426K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 3,829 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 2.1K times each, and 0.145% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.485% 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 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 133 interactions, about 44x its own typical post.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Local 4 WDIV Detroit's engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 11% 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 0.001%, Local 4 WDIV Detroit sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,214 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 | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.436% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.2% |
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 00:00 UTC, and Friday 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 71K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 80K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 88K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 103K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 100K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 86K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 81K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 234K |
| Monday | 0% | 294K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 288K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 247K |
| Friday | -3% | 256K |
| Saturday | +3% | 230K |
Best tweets
- Aug 29, 202644x their median
Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield left an event Friday through a back door before Local 4 could ask her about a controversy involving social media posts, her former partner and police Chief Todd Bettison, despite giving the city a heads-up that we wanted to speak. https://t.co/aA9MymOwin
- Aug 28, 202625x their median
Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield and Police Chief Todd A. Bettison are responding to a public controversy involving social media posts, a former romantic relationship, and a recorded phone call with a local activist. https://t.co/Vgag3YljRo
- Aug 29, 20269.0x their median
Fr. Tom Szura was doing what he always did: Pray for the sick when they were in their most vulnerable state. https://t.co/DJEl01m5Ff
- Aug 28, 20264.7x their median
A federal judge on Thursday halted — at least for now — attempts to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail voting. https://t.co/B1WEXNN9Lb
- Aug 29, 20263.7x their median
Names of the Great Lakes have changed before -- but their stories go back thousands of years and reflect Indigenous, French and English influences. https://t.co/juisD0R59s
- Aug 29, 20262.7x their median
President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. has entered an agreement with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of the South American country’s oil reserves. https://t.co/Jlzs0cNidB
- Aug 29, 20262.7x their median
As University of Michigan students prepare for the start of classes, some families say a planned move into the Haven on Geddes apartment complex has turned into a stressful search for somewhere to live. https://t.co/kIkhUViuhb
- Aug 30, 20261.7x their median
USS Abraham Lincoln sails past Singapore on its way home from Middle East https://t.co/iRHDAV6yDx
- Aug 29, 20261.7x their median
Justin Moore, 22, of Warren, has been charged after police said he was caught peeping through a girl’s bathroom window. https://t.co/vDCvINrgaH
- Aug 29, 20261.7x their median
Detroit Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said Friday that seeing Tarik Skubal return to Comerica Park in a Los Angeles Dodgers uniform will be an emotional and unusual moment for the organization and its fans. https://t.co/I2BmqOOfca
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 3 interactions against 426K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 3,829 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 2.1K times each, and 0.145% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.485% 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 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 133 interactions, about 44x its own typical post.
- What is Local 4 WDIV Detroit's engagement rate on X?
- Local 4 WDIV Detroit (@Local4News) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 426,309 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Local 4 WDIV Detroit sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,214 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 @Local4News have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 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 @Local4News post?
- Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.