Toronto Sun engagement report
@TheTorontoSun - 427K followers on X
Measured over 60 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 8 interactions against 427K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 60 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,848 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 2.9K times each, and 0.277% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.677% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 60 posts sampled, 90% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 466 interactions, about 58x its own typical post.
Measured over 60 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Toronto Sun's engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,848 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 21% 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 0.002%, Toronto Sun sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,320 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 | 160.1% |
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 Saturday 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% | 52K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 62K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 71K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 74K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 80K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 88K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 97K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 100K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 103K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 100K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 93K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 82K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 76K |
| 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% | 235K |
| Monday | 0% | 296K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 292K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 254K |
| Thursday | -2% | 248K |
| Friday | -3% | 256K |
| Saturday | +3% | 230K |
Best tweets
- Aug 29, 202658x their median
LILLEY: CBC's 9/11 retreat doesn't fix its terrorism problem https://t.co/cAY46UK8fS https://t.co/fgh3GsuhVO
- Aug 28, 202654x their median
LILLEY: Trade war theatre helps Carney, Ford and Trump but hurts everyone else https://t.co/BDQdoSYxg4 https://t.co/PfyVrrBbhh
- Aug 29, 202626x their median
GUNTER: CBC flip-flop on calling 9/11 'terrorism' exercise in disinformation https://t.co/uMFIWihGFa https://t.co/YNrQaKoiip
- Aug 29, 202620x their median
Trump secures vast, potentially costly, U.S. stake in Venezuelan oil industry https://t.co/BUXHvPKIIN https://t.co/tj9sdwoTmx
- Aug 30, 202615x their median
Doug Ford unveils new Lake Ontario sign near Stoney Creek https://t.co/CG2NTu6Nbf https://t.co/FyoYMDoP7U
- Aug 29, 202612x their median
EDITORIAL: Call it what you want. It's still Lake Ontario https://t.co/K1Jw5DIvTD https://t.co/vH0Vgdj2O4
- Aug 30, 202610x their median
SMOL: Armed Forces declare secular war on God referenced in charter, national anthem https://t.co/aUyhAHdyGI https://t.co/C6FjPob1QK
- Aug 29, 202610x their median
Tim Dolighan cartoon, Aug. 29, 2026 https://t.co/rRiosxhnYn https://t.co/iLR1rico3F
- Aug 29, 202610x their median
Alberta premier rejects oil and gas export tax in U.S. tariff tussle https://t.co/X1GHPjiXMC https://t.co/16SIKd3nLm
- Aug 30, 20269.9x their median
From @joe_warmington: Video of Canada Geese dolled up with Trump’s hair armed for tariff war https://t.co/yT9ZcoMHdp
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 8 interactions against 427K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 60 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,848 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 2.9K times each, and 0.277% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.677% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 60 posts sampled, 90% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 466 interactions, about 58x its own typical post.
- What is Toronto Sun's engagement rate on X?
- Toronto Sun (@TheTorontoSun) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 60 original posts from the last 30 days against 427,337 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, Toronto Sun sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,320 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 @TheTorontoSun have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,848 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter 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 @TheTorontoSun post?
- Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.