DIE ZEIT engagement report
@zeitonline - 2.4M followers on X
Measured over 348 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 11 interactions against 2.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 348 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% 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 4.1K times each, and 0.265% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.172% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 11.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 348 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 735 interactions, about 67x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #bauchspeicheldrüsenkrebs, #durchbruch, #medikament.
Measured over 348 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #bauchspeicheldrüsenkrebs, #durchbruch, #medikament.
Compared with accounts its own size
DIE ZEIT's engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 24% 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%, DIE ZEIT sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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% | 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 28, 202667x their median
Baden-Württembergs Ministerpräsident Özdemir und Verteidigungsminister Pistorius fordern ein AfD-Verbotsverfahren. Im Fokus sollen die völkischen Teile der Partei stehen. https://t.co/ARadhQlJKb
- Aug 28, 202642x their median
Kurz vor der Sachsen-Anhalt-Wahl kommt Herbert Grönemeyer in den Magdeburger Dom. Er singt einfach im Chor, zweite Reihe. Und erklärt, wie sich das Herz zusammenzieht. https://t.co/NLDrkobxp7
- Aug 21, 202627x their median
Falls in Magdeburg demnächst die AfD regiert, dann stoppen wir den Länderfinanzausgleich: Der Vorschlag wird gerade ernsthaft diskutiert. Auch in der ZEIT-Redaktion. https://t.co/pMLpZLyY6K
- Aug 30, 202625x their median
Im ARD-Sommerinterview war dem Bundeskanzler nicht ein inspirierender Satz aus der Nase zu ziehen. https://t.co/S3f8BQCN79
- Aug 18, 202620x their median
Der AfD-Politiker Arno Bausemer soll einen Jugendlichen mit einem Schlagwerkzeug angegriffen haben. Die Staatsanwaltschaft will seine Immunität aufheben lassen. https://t.co/ZWWYgQ2NLP
- Aug 18, 202617x their median
Der Zentralrat der Juden hat die menschenverachtenden Worte von Itamar Ben-Gvir verurteilt. Dieser hatte zuvor zur Massentötung von Palästinensern aufgerufen. https://t.co/5MykH48DJC
- Aug 24, 202616x their median
Wer in sozialen Netzwerken beleidigt oder verleumdet wird, soll sich leichter wehren können. Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf hält dafür einen Auskunftsanspruch für sinnvoll. https://t.co/OhLJMFFZNl
- Aug 17, 202615x their median
Entgegen des Beschlusses ihrer Fraktion entziehen zwei BSW-Abgeordnete Thüringens Ministerpräsident Voigt das Vertrauen. Die Zukunft der Koalition ist unklar. https://t.co/GtMe6LsiU3
- Aug 24, 202615x their median
Der Philosoph Nathan Cofnas hat die Plagiatsvorwürfe gegen den kürzlich tot aufgefundenen Cambridge-Professor Jason Arday ins Rollen gebracht. Was treibt diesen Mann an? https://t.co/HvNfDnSXcq
- Aug 24, 202614x their median
Überall ist vom Erstarken der autoritären Rechten die Rede. Doch in einer Bevölkerungsgruppe kommt die AfD nicht gut an: bei alten Menschen. Woran liegt das? https://t.co/kFAooxC6rK
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
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 11 interactions against 2.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 348 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% 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 4.1K times each, and 0.265% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.172% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 11.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 348 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 735 interactions, about 67x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #bauchspeicheldrüsenkrebs, #durchbruch, #medikament.
- What is DIE ZEIT's engagement rate on X?
- DIE ZEIT (@zeitonline) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 348 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,408,139 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, DIE ZEIT sits below 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 @zeitonline have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 13% 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 @zeitonline post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 11.6 posts per day across the measured window.