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National Post engagement report

@nationalpost - 1.0M followers on X

Measured over 139 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.003%
of 1.0M followers
Per impression
0.519%
5.6K views on a typical post
Reach
0.54%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
29
interactions (median)
Saved
0.018%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
4.63/day
active 23% of days
Peak time
00:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 29 interactions against 1.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 139 original posts, its engagement rate beats 21% of 3,774 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 5.6K times each, and 0.519% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.537% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 139 posts sampled, 61% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.9K interactions, about 99x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #mitsubishi, #nationalpost, #npmerch.

Measured over 139 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #mitsubishi, #nationalpost, #npmerch.

Compared with accounts its own size

National Post's engagement rate beats 21% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 34% 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%, National Post sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.433%
p902.10%
p99160.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,654 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,977 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 percentile0.433%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.5%

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 00:00 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.

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: 00:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 00:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
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%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
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%101K
16:00 UTC-3%98K
17:00 UTC-2%91K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-1%80K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-1%57K
23:00 UTC-2%52K
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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%231K
Monday0%288K
Tuesday-2%278K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%245K
Friday-3%253K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 27, 202699x their median

    CBC tells staff not to call 9/11 a 'terrorist attack' https://t.co/8pDzImN4wy https://t.co/ykIQE2VlAS

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  • Jul 1, 202634x their median

    "We'll never be the 51st state": Bryan Adams releases protest song for Canada Day https://t.co/ntUWX9xYZJ

    2131325964884K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202630x their median

    Canadian 9/11 widow 'appalled' by CBC policy against using term 'terrorist attack' https://t.co/6cccpTh4Q6 https://t.co/Qg6WuAsQfp

    665147441316K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202618x their median

    Jamie Sarkonak: Police reprimand of anti-immigration event undermines democracy https://t.co/bZs1rshTOX https://t.co/lzEeD53nMd

    3858843716K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202617x their median

    Marty York: Instead of being booed at games, the Indiana Fever star should be applauded for her opposition to trans athletes playing in women's sports https://t.co/R5Zalcoa2f

    429431939.1K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 202615x their median

    Poilievre asks Carney to reconvene Parliament 'without delay' after trade talks collapse. 'In a crisis that defines the future of our people and our country, Conservatives are ready to return to Parliament, to act with the urgency our people demand, and to put Canada first' https://t.co/HUqjlAKF1S

    341772905.4K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202614x their median

    CBC reverses policy against calling 9/11 a terrorist attack without attribution https://t.co/vGCkg8Cgvx https://t.co/yaVD3LjGfy

    217371242223K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202613x their median

    Doug Ford erects sign to remind Donald Trump 'it's Lake Ontario now and forever' https://t.co/3sZ4wJgOGU https://t.co/abHWO12Otf

    83112831423K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 202613x their median

    Canadians deserve to know specifics of the trade deal Canada walked away from, says Conservative MP Shuvaloy Majumdar. Prime Minister Mark Carney should release the U.S. proposal so Canadians can 'debate and discuss the way forward as a country' https://t.co/WSj7z61BLV https://t.co/cstUcvTDOn

    272683536.9K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 202612x their median

    Can we ditch the political theatre for the real show? Walking away boosts Carney's ratings, but not our economy, writes Michael Higgins. Carney now needs to sell Canadians a kiss-and-make-up strategy https://t.co/ex8WhSClcQ https://t.co/SEJ0jdT6sr

    250563378.4K 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

#mitsubishi#nationalpost#npmerch

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 29 interactions against 1.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 139 original posts, its engagement rate beats 21% of 3,774 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 5.6K times each, and 0.519% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.537% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 139 posts sampled, 61% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.9K interactions, about 99x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #mitsubishi, #nationalpost, #npmerch.

What is National Post's engagement rate on X?
National Post (@nationalpost) has an engagement rate of 0.003%, based on the median interactions across 139 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,040,646 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.003%, National Post sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 @nationalpost have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 21% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @nationalpost post?
Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.63 posts per day across the measured window.

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