Hong Kong Free Press HKFP engagement report
@hkfp - 416K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 14 interactions against 416K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% of 3,758 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 4.2K times each, and 0.318% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.02% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 88% carry an image or video and 90% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 177 interactions, about 13x its own typical post.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP's engagement rate beats 11% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 18% 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 0.003%, Hong Kong Free Press HKFP sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,378 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 | 0.432% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 161.0% |
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 11:00 UTC, and Thursday 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 28, 202613x their median
An activist who once organised annual vigils to commemorate the Tiananmen crackdown has said that a Hong Kong court’s decision to convict her under national security legislation amounts to saying that “pursuing democracy is a crime.” In full: https://t.co/PlB4gRHCUv File photo: Kris Cheng/HKFP.
- Aug 28, 20269.0x their median
Tiananmen vigil activists Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan and Albert Ho, and the now-defunct pro-democracy group they led, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, returned to court on Friday for mitigation proceedings. Chow's mitigation statement in full: https://t.co/GyrP7nx0Ny File photo: Candice Chau/HKFP.
- Aug 27, 20263.9x their median
Three women have been arrested over an altercation at a Kwun Tong shopping mall on Wednesday, after a viral video showed one of them slapping a five-year-old girl. The three women, two aged 34 and one aged 68, were arrested on suspicion of fighting in a public place, according to a police brief issued on Thursday. In full: https://t.co/H7NpBE2lk7 Photo: Screenshot, via Threads.
- Aug 30, 20263.5x their median
Last October, Chinese authorities cracked down on the Zion Church, one of the largest underground churches in China, detaining more than 20 of its members. Video: Michael Zhang/AFP. https://t.co/aIr7kFwEzG
- May 20, 20263.5x their median
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- Aug 29, 20263.1x their median
China removed two high-ranking officers from the country's main military body on Friday, state media reported, seven months after it was announced that Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli were being investigated for "serious violations of the law". In full: https://t.co/STNDmYXKXc Photo: Kremlin & China Gov't.
- Aug 27, 20262.5x their median
A taxi driver has been sentenced to eight weeks in prison and fined HK$3,000 after he was caught overcharging an undercover police officer and then sped away to flee the scene. In full: https://t.co/eFqbA2i7xc Photo: Lea Mok/HKFP https://t.co/HFM56BqMzI
- Aug 28, 20262.4x their median
Nepal ordered rescuers searching for survivors of deadly floods to get to safety as it reported a debris dam had burst in Tibet on Friday, bringing risks of new torrents. Emergency teams have recovered 472 bodies after a tsunami-like wall of water and mud crashed down on Wednesday, burying homes, smashing bridges and sweeping away vehicles in both Nepal and Tibet. In full: https://t.co/KRgczW7Swu Photo: Arun Sankar/AFP.
- Aug 28, 20262.1x their median
A Hong Kong police officer has been arrested after allegedly sending indecent messages and explicit photos to a female friend of a suspect he was investigating. In full: https://t.co/LsPrOgpHu9 File photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. https://t.co/VYnY7XGJ49
- Aug 27, 20261.8x their median
Infographic map showing locations of birthplaces of giant pandas born outside mainland China. Chart: Janis Latvels & Nicholas Shearman. https://t.co/VIzcw4InEt
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 14 interactions against 416K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% of 3,758 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 4.2K times each, and 0.318% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.02% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 88% carry an image or video and 90% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 177 interactions, about 13x its own typical post.
- What is Hong Kong Free Press HKFP's engagement rate on X?
- Hong Kong Free Press HKFP (@hkfp) has an engagement rate of 0.003%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 416,173 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.003%, Hong Kong Free Press HKFP sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,378 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 @hkfp have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 11% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 @hkfp post?
- Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.