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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

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 2.4M followers
Per impression
0.265%
4.1K views on a typical post
Reach
0.17%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
11
interactions (median)
Saved
0.024%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
11.6/day
active 43% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Tuesday

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%.

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 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.

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: 15:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 15:00 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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Tuesday
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 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

    4801121271643K viewsView on X
  • 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

    29837123821K viewsView on X
  • 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

    75211941012K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 202625x their median

    Im ARD-Sommerinterview war dem Bundeskanzler nicht ein inspirierender Satz aus der Nase zu ziehen. https://t.co/S3f8BQCN79

    1863746715K viewsView on X
  • 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

    1642629318K viewsView on X
  • 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

    98225849.2K viewsView on X
  • 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

    851573312K viewsView on X
  • 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

    1172222842K viewsView on X
  • 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

    1841311116K viewsView on X
  • 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

    52218518.7K 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

#bauchspeicheldrüsenkrebs#durchbruch#medikament

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.

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