news.com.au engagement report
@newscomauHQ - 711K followers on X
Measured over 81 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 711K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 81 original posts, its engagement rate beats 9% of 3,829 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 3.7K times each, and 0.162% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.521% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 81 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 98% are part of a thread and 99% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 134 interactions, about 22x its own typical post.
Measured over 81 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
news.com.au's engagement rate beats 9% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 13% 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%, news.com.au sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,071 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 | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 158.3% |
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 20:00 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
- Sep 1, 202622x their median
Pauline Hanson is demanding the Attorney-General retract and apologise. Full story: https://t.co/6EgfQe6i2F https://t.co/nvJCfFBcyq
- Aug 24, 202610x their median
The Aussies' incredible work has led to seven arrests across five countries. Full story: https://t.co/R8o98R9jh1 https://t.co/opgNfuaDEI
- Sep 1, 20269.8x their median
A political strategist and pollster has made a shock election call as support for One Nation surges in one Aussie state. Full story: https://t.co/ZlPxFagE7f https://t.co/OzoiKUDEvH
- Aug 31, 20267.2x their median
Pauline Hanson has accused the Prime Minister of acting like an “emperor”. Full story: https://t.co/6EgfQe6i2F https://t.co/nTIUN3xvrW
- Aug 24, 20265.0x their median
There’s been another devastating development for three members of the Swans' Pullman 5. Full story: https://t.co/q40YO21G5f https://t.co/3qcZjY2Hli
- Aug 24, 20263.8x their median
A woman has died after a Tesla crashed into diners outside a bar at Westfield Knox, in Melbourne. Full story: https://t.co/YlbnMQ1wNa https://t.co/GKKSXBAVZY
- Aug 24, 20263.3x their median
Labor warns Australia’s $4.5 trillion superannuation system is under attack. Full story: https://t.co/S09My0MgQR https://t.co/3lWhq2pyiH
- Sep 1, 20263.2x their median
JUST IN: A man has been found guilty of the murder of rap legend Tupac Shakur, bringing to an end a mystery that went unsolved for 30 years. Full story: https://t.co/SHUBJqlH6T https://t.co/048OJmgl92
- Aug 24, 20263.0x their median
Experts have begun openly warning of world war as China, Russia, Iran and North Korea deepen their alliance – and Australia could be dragged into the consequences. Full story: https://t.co/UaXqj7Sf6K https://t.co/xhsblTUdrQ
- Aug 24, 20262.8x their median
An AFL legend claims his son was a “scapegoat” for the AFL to hide a massive cocaine problem. He can only shake his head at the Swans saga. Full story: https://t.co/CBYFxEtUKA https://t.co/0duABIZbrg
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 6 interactions against 711K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 81 original posts, its engagement rate beats 9% of 3,829 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 3.7K times each, and 0.162% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.521% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 81 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 98% are part of a thread and 99% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 134 interactions, about 22x its own typical post.
- What is news.com.au's engagement rate on X?
- news.com.au (@newscomauHQ) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 81 original posts from the last 30 days against 711,231 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, news.com.au sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,071 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 @newscomauHQ have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 9% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 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 @newscomauHQ post?
- Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 5.37 posts per day across the measured window.