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Los Angeles Times engagement report

@latimes - 3.8M followers on X

Measured over 304 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 3.8M followers
Per impression
0.125%
14K views on a typical post
Reach
0.37%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
18
interactions (median)
Saved
0.007%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
12.4/day
active 57% of days
Peak time
13:00 UTC
Sunday

A typical post picks up 18 interactions against 3.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 304 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% 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 14K times each, and 0.125% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.375% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 12.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 304 posts sampled, 6% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 59x its own typical post.

Measured over 304 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tag: #housing.

Compared with accounts its own size

Los Angeles Times's engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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%, Los Angeles Times 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%.

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Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,521 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,166 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.434%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.7%

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 13:00 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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 13:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 13:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
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
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Sunday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Sunday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%230K
Monday0%286K
Tuesday-2%276K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%244K
Friday-3%252K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 28, 202659x their median

    “I don’t think demanding that women and girls be safe and have ownership over their own bodies is a radical idea,” Rodrigo told The Times. Read more: https://t.co/MVJswqB0mc https://t.co/BJnOBvQVza

    89214819928K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 202627x their median

    To mark Mel Brooks’ 100th birthday, the American Cinematheque asked the comedy icon to program a series of his favorite films, The Times can exclusively reveal. Here are the 20 movies he picked and where they're screening: https://t.co/HhcWviFT0d https://t.co/xmCoWZPfPL

    395799348K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 202621x their median

    Matthew Rhys says it's harder to do a California accent than a Boston or New York one. "Then there are just simply words in the American dialect that can take me down," Rhys told The Times on the latest episode of The Envelope podcast. Watch now. https://t.co/ri552z14wW https://t.co/4FcFCuwbJo

    350175245K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 202618x their median

    Dolly Parton, the singer, songwriter, actor, businesswoman and national treasure who willed herself into being the very symbol of country music stardom, has died at 80. Parton reinvented the American success story through a combination of grit and wit, faith and sex appeal, virtuosity and plainspokenness. Read more: https://t.co/wwz29HXKFP

    2346191114K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 202614x their median

    Newsom signs bill shielding immigrant aid workers' home addresses https://t.co/m4TsIE8KMp

    1563255825K viewsView on X
  • Aug 16, 202610x their median

    Tommy John, who ruptured a ligament in his left elbow in 1974, agreed to a then-radical surgery that revived his career and changed baseball. John, who pitched for the Dodgers, Angels, Yankees and White Sox, died at the age of 83 on Saturday. https://t.co/O5sqyC4JaO https://t.co/adzmiaqmmS

    138396220K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 20269.2x their median

    L.A. Phil will offer $10 Hollywood Bowl tickets for Medi-Cal, EBT cardholders https://t.co/Kih5apVhYu

    1082728225K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20269.1x their median

    Dolly Parton was the last star in music everyone in America could agree on. She is one of the finest singer-songwriters this country ever produced, and it’s inconceivable to sum up her catalog in just an LP’s worth of tunes. Here are 10 songs to start with. https://t.co/kmeJVcVEDK

    12733319.1K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20267.7x their median

    L.A. once “stood in for everywhere. Now L.A. doesn’t even stand in for itself,” said Jonathan Nolan, a writer, director and producer, whose credits include the HBO series “Westworld” and “Fallout” on Amazon. https://t.co/3v9M6gmU3v

    992019122K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20267.1x their median

    LAPD releases video of officers beating handcuffed jail inmate who later died https://t.co/H0qMhcoaOg

    763911237K viewsView on X

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

#housing

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 18 interactions against 3.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 304 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% 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 14K times each, and 0.125% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.375% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 12.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 304 posts sampled, 6% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 59x its own typical post.

What is Los Angeles Times's engagement rate on X?
Los Angeles Times (@latimes) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 304 original posts from the last 30 days against 3,831,388 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, Los Angeles Times 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 @latimes have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 13% 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 @latimes post?
Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 12.4 posts per day across the measured window.

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