Verity engagement report
@improvethenews - 87K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1 interaction against 87K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 5% of 4,294 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 466 times each, and 0.215% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.536% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 75% are part of a thread and 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8 interactions, about 8.0x its own typical post.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Verity's engagement rate beats 5% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,294 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 4 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 12% 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%, Verity sits below the 10th percentile of the 41,462 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.013%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.013% |
| 50th percentile | 0.083% |
| 75th percentile | 0.446% |
| 90th percentile | 2.07% |
| 99th percentile | 143.9% |
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 21:00 UTC, and Friday 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% | 58K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 59K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 57K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 49K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 55K |
| 07:00 UTC | -4% | 59K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 69K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 80K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 83K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 90K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 99K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 108K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 111K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 115K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 112K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 104K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 97K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 86K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 76K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 65K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 59K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 254K |
| Monday | +2% | 326K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 350K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 312K |
| Thursday | -2% | 265K |
| Friday | -3% | 274K |
| Saturday | +3% | 248K |
Best tweets
- Aug 7, 20268.0x their median
AI Is Erasing Jobs. The Stock Market Has Never Been Higher. https://t.co/13YkX2pifh
- Aug 28, 20265.0x their median
Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama died Aug. 14 at a hospital in Tokyo at age 97, her studio confirmed on Thursday. Her representative David Zwirner said she died from multiple organ failure. https://t.co/iqiW4xY956
- Aug 21, 20265.0x their median
A Hong Kong court convicted former activists Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung on Friday of inciting subversion under the city's national security law for their roles in organizing annual candlelight vigils commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. https://t.co/f892Bvp9kS
- Aug 21, 20265.0x their median
Australia's parliament on Thursday passed the News Bargaining Incentive, which imposes a 2.5% levy on local digital advertising revenue for major tech platforms that fail to reach commercial deals with at least eight Australian news publishers. https://t.co/YD4ddfzgMn
- Aug 28, 20263.0x their median
X's Safety team announced on Thursday that it had identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts linked to suspected Chinese influence operations, with 200 of those accounts posting content designed to shape debate around American AI and energy policy. https://t.co/OxRO3Z8uJb
- Aug 27, 20263.0x their median
British actor Tim Curry died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 80. His manager, Marcia Hurwitz, confirmed his death, and law enforcement sources said no foul play was suspected. https://t.co/Gn4GvR8l3z
- Aug 24, 20263.0x their median
The Times reported Sunday that Russia has withdrawn its ambassador to the U.K., Andrey Kelin, leaving the London embassy without a senior envoy. Russia has not nominated a replacement, and a chargé d'affaires now heads the mission. https://t.co/SXON2sxYj6
- Aug 27, 20262.0x their median
Book Overview: "Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York" is a 464-page book authored by Andrew Lownie, first published in the U.K. by William Collins on Aug. 14, 2025. The book examines the lives and fortunes of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, as well as controversies and scandals throughout their lives. https://t.co/pIWzBY7lPV
- Aug 26, 20262.0x their median
At least 95 people have been killed and hundreds more are missing after flash flooding struck the Himalayan border region between Nepal and China's Tibet on Wednesday. Chinese authorities separately reported three dead and 265 missing on the Tibetan side. https://t.co/bYRreNv4RG
- Aug 26, 20262.0x their median
Meta Platforms on Wednesday agreed to pay a maximum of $16.68 billion to settle claims brought by 29 U.S. states alleging that Facebook and Instagram were designed to addict children, that the company misled consumers about platform safety and improperly collected minors' personal data. https://t.co/MM715hCL8V
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 1 interaction against 87K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 5% of 4,294 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 466 times each, and 0.215% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.536% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 75% are part of a thread and 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8 interactions, about 8.0x its own typical post.
- What is Verity's engagement rate on X?
- Verity (@improvethenews) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 86,904 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Verity sits below the 10th percentile of the 41,462 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 @improvethenews have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 5% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,294 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 @improvethenews post?
- Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.37 posts per day across the measured window.