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NYPD NEWS engagement report

@NYPDnews - 814K followers on X

Measured over 45 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.012%
of 814K followers
Per impression
0.387%
25K views on a typical post
Reach
3.05%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
96
interactions (median)
Saved
0.012%
3 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.43/day
active 83% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Sunday

A typical post picks up 96 interactions against 814K followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Measured over 45 original posts, its engagement rate beats 37% 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 25K times each, and 0.387% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.05% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 45 posts sampled, 76% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 29% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 735 interactions, about 7.7x its own typical post.

Measured over 45 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

NYPD NEWS's engagement rate beats 37% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 27% 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 0.012%, NYPD NEWS sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

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Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,654 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,977 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.433%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.5%

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 17:00 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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 17:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 17:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
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%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
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%101K
16:00 UTC-3%98K
17:00 UTC-2%91K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-1%80K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-1%57K
23:00 UTC-2%52K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Sunday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Sunday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%231K
Monday0%288K
Tuesday-2%278K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%245K
Friday-3%253K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 5, 20267.7x their median

    Yesterday, the NYPD conducted a search warrant at a home on Staten Island and recovered 13 ghost guns, including 9 handguns and 4 assault rifles. These dangerous weapons have no place in our city, and this department will be relentless on taking them off our streets. https://t.co/upzUm9Y9oY

    1792646565206K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20265.6x their median

    What sound does a police car make? We asked some of New York City's Finest dogs. Happy National Dog Day! 🐾 https://t.co/2YVX1OD90U

    4417914528K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20263.3x their median

    WANTED FOR HOMICIDE AND ROBBERY: Have you seen Jesus Acosta? He is wanted for the fatal shooting of a 44-year-old man on 8/23 inside 842 Rockaway Ave in Brooklyn and a robbery from 8/25 at 143 East 149 St in the Bronx. Have info? DM @NYPDTips or call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). https://t.co/wI4USPQSVr

    186873311109K viewsView on X
  • Aug 16, 20262.8x their median

    NYPD executives provide updates on an ongoing investigation in Manhattan. https://t.co/yuu1T4p2Lx

    1962939657K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20262.6x their median

    Have you seen 8-year-old Avery DeJesus? He was last seen today at 12:30 p.m. leaving his residence at 521 Van Siclen Avenue. He is 4'11" and 103 lbs. Avery was wearing a white T-shirt, black shorts, and black sneakers. Anyone with information is asked to DM @NYPDTips or call 800-577-TIPS.

    1319910650K viewsView on X
  • Aug 16, 20262.2x their median

    On Wednesday, our officers responded to a burglary in progress in Queens. The NYPD Aviation Unit helped patrol officers on the ground locate the suspect who was wanted for several additional burglaries and took him into custody. Team work at its finest. https://t.co/Ro7SRloTtk

    175296227K viewsView on X
  • Aug 8, 20262.2x their median

    We mourn the passing of former Chief of the Organized Crime Control Bureau, Anthony Izzo. Our heartfelt condolences go out to his family, friends, and the NYPD members who have served with him. His decades-long legacy will continue to inspire the Finest for generations.

    1732810135K viewsView on X
  • Aug 3, 20262.2x their median

    For nearly 20 years, newly promoted Det. 2nd Grade Matthew Gale has run towards danger, not away. Despite being wounded in the line of duty by a barricaded gunman, he cannot wait to get back to protecting this city. He's truly one of NY's Finest. https://t.co/rVEBvjWiak

    176248025K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 20262.1x their median

    Last night, we honored Police Officer Ronald Kloepfer, the founder of NYPD’s Lacrosse team, and his teammate, Detective Joseph Vigiano, who were both killed while heroically responding to the terrorist attacks on September 11. 25 years later, their sons Casey and James carry on their legacy both on and off the field – as members of the NYPD and the Finest lacrosse team.

    165334115K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 20261.9x their median

    We hit it out of the park! ⚾ Congratulations to the NYPD’s baseball team on their victory over FDNY in the Battle of the Badges. https://t.co/tV4wTtPLwf

    145286027K viewsView on X

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 96 interactions against 814K followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Measured over 45 original posts, its engagement rate beats 37% 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 25K times each, and 0.387% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.05% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 45 posts sampled, 76% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 29% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 735 interactions, about 7.7x its own typical post.

What is NYPD NEWS's engagement rate on X?
NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) has an engagement rate of 0.012%, based on the median interactions across 45 original posts from the last 30 days against 813,601 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.012%, NYPD NEWS sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 @NYPDnews have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 37% 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 @NYPDnews post?
Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.43 posts per day across the measured window.

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