Toronto Star engagement report
@TorontoStar - 1.2M followers on X
Measured over 245 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 245 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% 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 4.3K times each, and 0.14% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.372% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 8.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 245 posts sampled, 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.4K interactions, about 228x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #firstup, #onpoli, #breaking.
Measured over 245 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #firstup, #onpoli, #breaking.
Compared with accounts its own size
Toronto Star's engagement rate beats 7% 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 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%, Toronto Star 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 09:00 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 23, 2026228x their median
The K-pop superstars play one more night in Toronto on Sunday as their Arirang World Tour continues. https://t.co/52PKZJZFA8
- Aug 28, 2026208x their median
Our Friday front page says it all: Lake Ontario, forever. Show us your best Lake Ontario photo — a favourite view, memory or moment on the lake, along with the location. Share it below with #LakeOntarioForever, or email firstup@thestar.ca https://t.co/03A5kNPIxJ
- Aug 24, 2026129x their median
At a drenched Rogers Stadium show on Saturday, BTS member RM said he and fellow member Suga got to suit up with the Leafs. https://t.co/YB5vrmkTnn
- Aug 30, 202685x their median
The band also projected a large map of Lake Ontario behind them during the show. https://t.co/AmxkU9lQwE
- Aug 23, 202640x their median
The key for Mark Carney is to make the trade fight felt south of the border — and then make it clear to U.S. midterm voters who's to blame. https://t.co/LuSBfOoL3q
- Aug 28, 202625x their median
Decades-old brands, small businesses and individual Canadians are turning the Lake Ontario movement into something reminiscent of the Elbows Up wave last year. https://t.co/QHPp7hxyKO
- Aug 24, 202625x their median
One of the main questions Poilievre writes in his letter, which he says deserves to be answered, is what the exact text of the proposed trade deal was. https://t.co/O19GsxIHOK
- Aug 26, 202622x their median
The Carney government has urged Liberal MPs to avoid escalating tensions or provoking the Trump administration in public, the Star has learned. https://t.co/5OQjBT6LY6
- Aug 24, 202621x their median
#Opinion Never mind the insults. It's time for Canada to hit the U.S. where it really hurts https://t.co/8IF7jHXKyM #onpoli
- Aug 23, 202619x their median
Donald Trump has framed this moment in Canada-U.S. relations as something much larger than a trade war. He's right. https://t.co/f7Z6Ewlwvg
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 6 interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 245 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% 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 4.3K times each, and 0.14% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.372% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 8.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 245 posts sampled, 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.4K interactions, about 228x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #firstup, #onpoli, #breaking.
- What is Toronto Star's engagement rate on X?
- Toronto Star (@TorontoStar) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 245 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,153,145 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Toronto Star 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 @TorontoStar have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 7% 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 @TorontoStar post?
- Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 8.47 posts per day across the measured window.