Royal Australian Air Force engagement report
@AusAirForce - 64K followers on X
Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 24, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 151 interactions against 64K followers, an engagement rate of 0.236%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 64% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 4.3K times each, and 3.55% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.65% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.0K interactions, about 27x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #ausairforce, #youradf, #brisbane.
Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 24, 2026. Recurring tags: #ausairforce, #youradf, #brisbane.
Compared with accounts its own size
Royal Australian Air Force's engagement rate beats 64% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 76% 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 0.236%, Royal Australian Air Force sits above the 50th percentile of the 204,956 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.678%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 21:00 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% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 13% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 100% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 13% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 245 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Aug 7, 202627x their median
Indian Air Force Rafales made their Pitch Black debut, launching into the Northern Territory night to complete high-end multinational air combat training. @IAF_MCC 🇦🇺 🇮🇳 🤝 #AusAirForce #YourADF #StrongerTogether #PitchBlack26 #Rafale https://t.co/l8HxATc3Yv
- Sep 5, 20267.0x their median
Squadron Leader Jason Easthope and Flying Officer Rhys Easthope shared a memorable moment over RAAF Base Williamtown, flying side by side in an F-35A Lightning II and PC-21. Happy Father’s Day! 💙✈️ #YourADF #AusAirForce #FathersDay https://t.co/AXKlHlvWGS
- Sep 22, 20266.3x their median
A major step forward for Air Force's ISR fleet. With the MQ-4C Triton and MC-55A Peregrine now operational, and P-8A Poseidon upgrades underway, Australia is strengthening its ability to monitor and respond across the region. https://t.co/eCBHkxpUHo
- Sep 4, 20265.1x their median
Consider this our official rehearsals-done post. ✅ Here's the Super Hornet practice flight from today over #Brisbane. #riverfire @BrisFestival https://t.co/BguGZjM919
- Jul 29, 20264.3x their median
A Royal Australian Air Force KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport successfully refuelled 14 fighter aircraft from our partner nations during a five-hour sortie over the Northern Territory. 📷 | FLTLT Jody Blakeley #PitchBlack26 #StrongerTogether https://t.co/Wo2CDyG3Vm
- Sep 11, 20264.2x their median
In the days following the September 11 attacks, a Royal Australian Air Force C-130 Hercules crew from No. 37 Squadron, conducting aircraft testing near Atlanta, Georgia, was tasked with flying personnel and equipment into New York. https://t.co/nzNm2qr89V #Lestweforget https://t.co/oRoiMpSpgx
- Aug 6, 20263.1x their median
For the first time in the exercise’s history, Finland and Sweden have attended Exercise Pitch Black 2026 ➡️ Read the full story: https://t.co/ZzLdmzb5vx https://t.co/xaBMaz6RSm
- Jul 28, 20262.7x their median
A RAAF KC-30A delivered fuel to Indian Rafales @IAF_MCC, RAAF Super Hornets, Republic of Korea Air Force F-15Ks @ROK_MND and German Eurofighter Typhoons @Team_Luftwaffe, demonstrating seamless multinational interoperability at #PitchBlack26. https://t.co/5u7F4U29bs
- Jul 22, 20262.7x their median
From the skies over Korea to Exercise Pitch Black 26. @ROK_MND https://t.co/gFZESzvqkG
- Sep 11, 20262.3x their median
Thunder over Ohakea. ⚡ Training side-by-side. Operating as one team. During Exercise Agile Tasman 26, Australian F-35A Lightning II aircraft landed on New Zealand soil. 📷 | CPL Rachel Pugh, NZ Defence Force #StrongerTogether #AusAirForce @nzdefenceforce https://t.co/U219ULT2cO
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 151 interactions against 64K followers, an engagement rate of 0.236%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 64% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 4.3K times each, and 3.55% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.65% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.0K interactions, about 27x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #ausairforce, #youradf, #brisbane.
- What is Royal Australian Air Force's engagement rate on X?
- Royal Australian Air Force (@AusAirForce) has an engagement rate of 0.236%, based on the median interactions across 16 original posts from the last 30 days against 63,985 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.236%, Royal Australian Air Force sits above the 50th percentile of the 204,956 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 @AusAirForce have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 64% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @AusAirForce post?
- Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.57 posts per day across the measured window.