ZDFheute engagement report
@ZDFheute - 1.4M followers on X
Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 314 interactions against 1.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.023%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 47% of 3,739 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 55K times each, and 0.567% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.06% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.53 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.3K interactions, about 11x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #eu, #island, #nordzypern.
Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #eu, #island, #nordzypern.
Compared with accounts its own size
ZDFheute's engagement rate beats 47% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 36% 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 0.023%, ZDFheute sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.431% |
| 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 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.
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% | 51K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 71K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 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% | 229K |
| Monday | 0% | 284K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 273K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 250K |
| Thursday | -2% | 243K |
| Friday | -3% | 251K |
| Saturday | +3% | 226K |
Best tweets
- Aug 30, 202611x their median
+++ Eil +++ Nein zur #EU: Isländer sprechen sich in Referendum gegen Wiederaufnahme von Beitrittsverhandlungen aus. #Island https://t.co/lgEjFy0Fku
- Jul 29, 20266.0x their median
+++ Eil: BMW streicht Tausende Stellen in Deutschland https://t.co/m4KhZbVaoc
- Jul 18, 20265.7x their median
+++ EIL +++ Jens Spahn tritt als Vorsitzender der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion zurück https://t.co/KaLqyQEo7v
- Jul 8, 20264.7x their median
+++ EIL +++ Streit um Krankenkassen-Reform: Grünen-Abgeordneter ruft Verfassungsgericht an https://t.co/dWqk3Yo8uE
- Aug 10, 20264.6x their median
+++ EIL +++ Russland: Gericht schließt Anti-Kriegspartei Jabloko von Wahl aus Mehr dazu: https://t.co/gAecH7yIjL
- Jun 30, 20263.8x their median
+++ EIL: Trump-Niederlage vor dem Supreme Court: Wer in den USA geboren wird, ist auch künftig automatisch US-Staatsbürger https://t.co/7oUK4ToAXu
- May 29, 20263.4x their median
+++ EIL +++ Mögliche Falschaussage: Ex-Minister Scheuer soll nach Maut-Debakel vor Gericht https://t.co/9Ww3Ly9eXv
- Aug 25, 20263.3x their median
+++ EIL +++ Deutsche Wirtschaft im Frühjahr kräftiger gewachsen als erwartet Mehr dazu hier: https://t.co/y3R7rR1o0i
- Jul 26, 20263.1x their median
+++ EIL +++ Verkehrsminister Schnieder will Merz um Entlassung bitten https://t.co/OJCtO110Jq
- Jun 20, 20263.1x their median
+++ EIL +++ Iran verkündet Schließung der Straße von Hormus https://t.co/ZlFDJVYC05
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 314 interactions against 1.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.023%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 47% of 3,739 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 55K times each, and 0.567% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.06% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.53 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.3K interactions, about 11x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #eu, #island, #nordzypern.
- What is ZDFheute's engagement rate on X?
- ZDFheute (@ZDFheute) has an engagement rate of 0.023%, based on the median interactions across 16 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,367,757 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.023%, ZDFheute sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,261 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 @ZDFheute have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 47% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @ZDFheute post?
- Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.53 posts per day across the measured window.