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Steve Rosenberg engagement report

@BBCSteveR - 308K followers on X

Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 5, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.624%
of 308K followers
Per impression
2.42%
79K views on a typical post
Reach
25.8%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1.9K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.171%
135 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.67/day
active 53% of days
Peak time
08:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 1.9K interactions against 308K followers, an engagement rate of 0.624%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 90% of 6,874 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 79K times each, and 2.42% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 25.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.67 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 79% carry an image or video and 16% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 10K interactions, about 5.3x its own typical post.

Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 5, 2026. Recurring tag: #readingrussia.

Compared with accounts its own size

Steve Rosenberg's engagement rate beats 90% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 71% 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 0.624%, Steve Rosenberg sits above the 75th percentile of the 66,393 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the top 25% band, which runs 0.499% to 2.09%.

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p99119.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 66,393 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 56,924 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 percentile0.016%
50th percentile0.1%
75th percentile0.499%
90th percentile2.09%
99th percentile119.5%

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 08:00 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: 08:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 08:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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 111%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video79% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link16% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 79% 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.
  • 16% 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 226 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

  • Jun 24, 20265.3x their median

    I’m on leave away from Moscow. Just wanted to say thank you for watching, reading, listening to my posts and for all your comments. We’ll meet again here soon.

    9.4K29745524404K viewsView on X
  • Aug 8, 20261.9x their median

    40 years ago I began my Russian Studies degree course at the University of Leeds. The era of perestroika & glasnost. At night, on a short wave radio, I’d listen to music from the USSR. I can still remember some of the melodies, some of the music that struck a chord. https://t.co/Es7dtb0YgT

    3.3K2551277154K viewsView on X
  • Jun 8, 20261.9x their median

    One Russian paper today: “In many Russian regions there are restrictions on the sale of petrol.” Another reports that, in Crimea, hotel bookings are “down 31%...& hotel cancellations double due to the fuel crisis.” #ReadingRussia https://t.co/9CUkg5u1F5

    3.0K5056426140K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20261.6x their median

    35 years ago today there was unscheduled Swan Lake on Soviet TV…and a coup in the USSR. How are today’s Russian papers remembering the August 1991 coup? I take a look. #ReadingRussia https://t.co/hEQIRQWeVI

    2.4K4857436109K viewsView on X
  • Jun 19, 20261.5x their median

    Today’s Russian papers call the Ukrainian drone strike on Moscow “a record attack”, but claim “Russian attacks do more damage to Ukraine than they do to us.” One paper wonders: “From Moscow’s perspective, what level of escalation is permissible, and what isn’t?” #ReadingRussia https://t.co/qgceFIOfeE

    2.4K3419412175K viewsView on X
  • Jun 3, 2026

    Happy birthday Valentina! https://t.co/WLROLJBwdV

    2.6K81121451K viewsView on X
  • Jul 27, 2026

    “We’re back to Square One,” declares one Russian newspaper this morning about “efforts to settle the Russia-Ukraine conflict.” Another paper quotes Vladimir Putin saying “We didn’t start a war”, nearly 4 ½ years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. #ReadingRussia https://t.co/6ENxxPLNHV

    2.2K3847321130K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 2026

    Spotted in a Russian newspaper: “The logic of this war is becoming more and more harsh: either they will destroy Russia, or we will crush them.” A week of petrol queues, growing geo-political tension & no end in sight to Russia’s war in Ukraine. #ReadingRussia https://t.co/NzIbVuJ1cd

    2.1K3467511114K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 2026

    In today’s Russian papers: a Putin decree, Russians “withdrew more cash than they deposited, praise for Marine Le Pen and a message for Andy Burnham: “He won’t see Moscow in his dreams. He should…in his nightmares.” #ReadingRussia https://t.co/6m1u3oajR3

    2.0K4009029130K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 2026

    Why did the CIA director fly to Moscow? “There’s always a reason for a visit like this,” says the Russian government paper. But what is it? Different versions in today’s Russian papers. Plus, an editorial with a message…for Europe? #ReadingRussia https://t.co/45muIYzSNR

    2.0K4256828133K 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

#readingrussia

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 1.9K interactions against 308K followers, an engagement rate of 0.624%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 90% of 6,874 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 79K times each, and 2.42% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 25.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.67 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 79% carry an image or video and 16% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 10K interactions, about 5.3x its own typical post.

What is Steve Rosenberg's engagement rate on X?
Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) has an engagement rate of 0.624%, based on the median interactions across 19 original posts from the last 30 days against 307,952 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.624%, Steve Rosenberg sits above the 75th percentile of the 66,393 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 @BBCSteveR have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 90% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 accounts), which puts it in the top 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 @BBCSteveR post?
Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.67 posts per day across the measured window.

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