Finance News engagement report
@ftfinancenews - 959K followers on X
Measured over 80 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 11 interactions against 959K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 80 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 10K times each, and 0.108% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.06% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 80 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 188 interactions, about 17x its own typical post.
Measured over 80 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Finance News's engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,848 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 8% 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%, Finance News 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 04:00 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% | 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 14, 202617x their median
Jane Street suffers $15bn loss in July market ructions https://t.co/zTBoBahfp9
- Aug 18, 202613x their median
Chris Hohn’s hedge fund bets on Italian luxury hotels https://t.co/8bODlMoVug
- Aug 22, 20265.8x their median
The man selling the Lakers: Mark Walter’s unravelling empire https://t.co/grxuOlyMlp
- Aug 14, 20265.8x their median
Trump family’s crypto venture granted conditional approval for bank licence https://t.co/MmOhwStzHd
- Aug 18, 20265.7x their median
Mark Walter’s empire of assets and liabilities https://t.co/XxRTWAdJeX
- Aug 16, 20265.3x their median
Jamie Dimon warns UK chancellor against higher bank taxes https://t.co/t30p3veLYv
- Aug 22, 20263.7x their median
How Germany’s doctors, lawyers and dentists got burnt by private markets bets https://t.co/OAnXio4nYB
- Aug 23, 20263.6x their median
US buyers snap up Europe’s asset managers at fastest rate in decades https://t.co/FwQybtgVTo
- Aug 14, 20263.3x their median
JPMorgan debanked Polymarket over regulatory concerns https://t.co/UvB7fU5kWf
- Aug 16, 20263.2x their median
UK housebuilder profits set to fall 12% as ‘relentless grind’ drags on https://t.co/NqP0xqNwiZ
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 11 interactions against 959K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 80 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 10K times each, and 0.108% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.06% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 80 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 188 interactions, about 17x its own typical post.
- What is Finance News's engagement rate on X?
- Finance News (@ftfinancenews) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 80 original posts from the last 30 days against 959,268 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Finance News 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 @ftfinancenews 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 @ftfinancenews post?
- Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.67 posts per day across the measured window.