Shanghai Daily engagement report
@shanghaidaily - 394K followers on X
Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 22 interactions against 394K followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% of 3,739 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 3.2K times each, and 0.697% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.82% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.4K interactions, about 62x its own typical post.
Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Shanghai Daily's engagement rate beats 15% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 33% 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 0.006%, Shanghai Daily sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 | 0.431% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 01:00 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% | 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% | 51K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 71K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 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% | 229K |
| Monday | 0% | 284K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 273K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 250K |
| Thursday | -2% | 243K |
| Friday | -3% | 251K |
| Saturday | +3% | 226K |
Best tweets
- Aug 30, 202662x their median
BREAKING: A passenger ferry has capsized north of Cyprus shortly after setting off for Turkey. 280 people were onboard. A massive rescue operation is underway, with many people in the water. https://t.co/0mT7UTe9j3
- Aug 31, 202616x their median
At the Gyirong mudslide search site, a rabbit plushie caked in mud, still holding a bright red heart, was found among the debris. A firefighter gently placed it on a high rock before turning back to continue the search. https://t.co/4o0ve9pNAA
- Aug 29, 20263.2x their median
A woman in Shenzhen's Shuibei found a 758.9g gold block (~US$133k) dropped by a man on a balance scooter hitting a speed bump on Aug 25. She handed it to mall security. Police returned it to the owner an hour later. https://t.co/qx3ueVGn0P
- Aug 22, 20262.7x their median
A Chinese blogger alleges cabbages from Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, were dipped in formaldehyde before loading onto trucks — claiming it keeps them fresh 2–3 days. Local officials said they have launched an investigation. https://t.co/8U0BdphwHV
- Aug 29, 20262.5x their median
Viral footage showed two cars, including a red Ferrari, allegedly racing and weaving through traffic on Shanghai’s Jiamin Elevated Road at speeds believed to exceed 130 km/h. Police have taken criminal action against both drivers for suspected dangerous driving. https://t.co/SO3pMmMHrx
- Aug 29, 20262.5x their median
A young man from Hunan set off from Shanghai on a three-wheeled vehicle and reached Lhasa after 146 days, selling fried rice noodles along the way. He made around 100,000 yuan (US$13,900) in sales and roughly 60,000 yuan in profit. https://t.co/J9DOK6VkdC
- Aug 29, 20262.5x their median
Texas Chicken opened its first China store in Shanghai on Aug 28. Customers queued in the rain, with wait times over 2 hours. https://t.co/oFFIZcckTA
- Aug 30, 20262.3x their median
A power bank bursted in flames in a man’s pocket in Shenzhen on July 27. https://t.co/KdZTgpGKc9
- Aug 30, 20262.0x their median
Official sources confirmed today that the list of missing foreign nationals from the Gyirong avalanche has been updated to 261 individuals from 23 countries. Here is the breakdown by nationality: Nepal: 104 India: 49 Latvia: 33 United States: 18 United Kingdom: 15 Canada: 6 Australia: 6 South Africa: 4 Germany: 3 Russia: 3 Malaysia: 3 France: 2 Ireland: 2 Estonia: 2 Netherlands: 2 New Zealand: 2 Kazakhstan: 1 Finland: 1 Portugal: 1 Ukraine: 1 Spain: 1 Hungary: 1 Lithuania: 1 Chinese authorities have notified the respective embassies and consulates. No foreign tourists remain stranded in Gyirong County following extensive searches and verification.
- Aug 31, 20261.7x their median
In the rescue site at Xizang's Gyirong Port, every object buried in the mud and debris once belonged to someone's everyday life. https://t.co/5aMkgqv1H0
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 22 interactions against 394K followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% of 3,739 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 3.2K times each, and 0.697% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.82% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.4K interactions, about 62x its own typical post.
- What is Shanghai Daily's engagement rate on X?
- Shanghai Daily (@shanghaidaily) has an engagement rate of 0.006%, based on the median interactions across 32 original posts from the last 30 days against 393,583 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.006%, Shanghai Daily sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 @shanghaidaily have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 15% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @shanghaidaily post?
- Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.47 posts per day across the measured window.