Toronto Life engagement report
@torontolife - 432K followers on X
Measured over 59 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 432K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 59 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% of 3,848 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 4.6K times each, and 0.13% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.07% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 59 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 295 interactions, about 49x its own typical post.
Measured over 59 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Toronto Life's engagement rate beats 11% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,848 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 10% 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%, Toronto Life sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,320 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 | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.436% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.1% |
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 18:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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% | 52K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 62K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 71K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 74K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 80K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 88K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 97K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 100K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 103K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 100K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 93K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 82K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 76K |
| 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% | 235K |
| Monday | 0% | 296K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 292K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 254K |
| Thursday | -2% | 248K |
| Friday | -3% | 256K |
| Saturday | +3% | 230K |
Best tweets
- Aug 24, 202649x their median
Connor Storrie just debuted a fresh buzz cut while dining out in Toronto https://t.co/ZYtrzshFX2
- Aug 17, 202614x their median
The man known as Drunk Justin charged tens of thousands of dollars for invite-only boot camps where he taught men how to get laid. He claimed his tactics worked miracles. Then he was arrested for sexual assault, and his dark secrets came tumbling out https://t.co/QQR31SIVHA
- Aug 18, 20265.3x their median
Zanzibar’s owner hopes the strip club will come back “bigger and better” after last weekend’s three-alarm fire https://t.co/FG3GuYFYxl
- Aug 13, 20265.2x their median
The Ontario PCs allegedly spent nearly $3,000 in donor and taxpayer funds to spy on Bonnie Crombie in Jamaica https://t.co/psMzwtkJtW
- Aug 11, 20263.3x their median
Toronto police have announced a two-week enforcement crackdown on micromobility vehicles, targeting offences like riding on the sidewalk and parking in bike lanes https://t.co/eFHH7KjBA3
- Aug 20, 20263.0x their median
Doug Ford’s Texas trade trip cost more than $93,000 https://t.co/CAI23fe8lB
- Aug 19, 20263.0x their median
Former Liberal MP and cabinet minister Nate Erskine-Smith is vying for Brad Bradford’s city council seat https://t.co/F8hi275oqx
- Aug 26, 20262.8x their median
Jays fans have eaten one million Loonie Dogs this season. Great work, everyone https://t.co/KdfJcWw81X
- Aug 18, 20262.8x their median
The Old Toronto BIA is auctioning off 50 of the World Cup beaver statues for charity https://t.co/paUUY7kj78
- Aug 26, 20262.7x their median
A recent Legionnaires’ disease outbreak downtown has been traced to a cooling tower at a TTC facility https://t.co/ksS2FWCdjH
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 432K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 59 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% of 3,848 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 4.6K times each, and 0.13% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.07% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 59 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 295 interactions, about 49x its own typical post.
- What is Toronto Life's engagement rate on X?
- Toronto Life (@torontolife) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 59 original posts from the last 30 days against 432,266 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Toronto Life sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,320 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 @torontolife have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 11% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,848 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 @torontolife post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.97 posts per day across the measured window.