BBC News اردو engagement report
@BBCUrdu - 4.6M followers on X
Measured over 824 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 100 interactions against 4.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 824 original posts, its engagement rate beats 18% of 20,182 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 16K times each, and 0.633% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.342% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 27.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 824 posts sampled, 67% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 129x its own typical post.
Measured over 824 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
BBC News اردو's engagement rate beats 18% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,182 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 36% 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 0.002%, BBC News اردو sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,424 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.677% |
| 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 14:00 UTC, and Friday 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 | 67% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 67% 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.
- 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 178 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below the same accounts' other posts.
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
- Sep 18, 2026129x their median
عمران خان کی رہائی کے لیے برطانوی اثر و رسوخ استعمال کرنے کا مطالبہ کرتے ہوئے سابق برطانوی وزیر اعظم بورس جانسن نے لکھا: ’اس کوٹھڑی کا دروازہ کھولیں اور عمران خان کو آزاد کریں۔‘ تفصیل: https://t.co/p86RZ68JUh https://t.co/puMjE6Xu98
- Aug 18, 202665x their median
سپریم کورٹ کا عمران خان کو فوری طور پر ہسپتال منتقل کرنے کا حکم تفصیلات: https://t.co/frOFscF2g9 https://t.co/SldOI0mbrj
- Sep 15, 202659x their median
عمران خان کے معاملے پر پاکستان سے بات کریں، سابق آسٹریلوی کپتانوں کا اپنی حکومت سے مطالبہ https://t.co/PqoqnzPka6
- Sep 20, 202656x their median
ہمارا گھر محاصرے میں ہے، ہماری گلی کو دونوں اطراف سے بند کر دیا گیا ہے: علیمہ خان کے بیٹے کا دعویٰ تفصیلات: https://t.co/yVNvVk9mrw https://t.co/9pMB5n6reM
- Oct 4, 202655x their median
پاکستان تحریکِ انصاف (پی ٹی آئی) نے خیبر پختونخوا کے ضلع لکی مروت سے لانگ مارچ کا آغاز کر دیا ہے۔ پہلے روز کے اختتام پر لانگ مارچ کے شرکا نے بنوں اور کرک کی سرحد پر اپنا پہلا پڑاؤ ڈال دیا ہے۔ دیکھیے یہ تصاویر: https://t.co/ck3zAFNM6R https://t.co/unAcMTxEeT
- Aug 24, 202653x their median
’عدالتی حکم کے تحت عمران خان کے علاج کا مطالبہ متنازع نہیں‘: 21 سابق کپتانوں کا شہباز شریف کے نام خط اور تین مطالبے https://t.co/NstqO21vRB
- Sep 26, 202641x their median
’اگر آپ پارلیمانی نظام کا حصہ ہوتے تو جانتے‘: بابر سلیم سواتی کا محسن نقوی کو جواب اور سوشل میڈیا پر اراکین اسمبلی کی گرفتاری کے قانون پر بحث https://t.co/vlIiy4Zvwc
- Oct 11, 202640x their median
آمریت پر مبنی اقدام تاریخ کے کوڑے دان میں جا گرے گا، کیا عوام یہ سب برداشت کرتے رہیں گے یا پھر پاکستان کو مکمل تباہی سے بچانے کی کوشش کریں گے: پاکستان تحریک انصاف مکمل تفصیلات: https://t.co/Lr9IWoWSa3 https://t.co/20KReARFoq
- Oct 6, 202640x their median
پشاور ہائیکورٹ نے تحریک انصاف کے لانگ مارچ کے شرکا کو سکیورٹی فراہم کرنے اور ان کے ساتھ قانون کے مطابق برتاؤ یقینی بنانے کی درخواست پر وفاقی حکومت کو نوٹس جاری کرتے ہوئے سماعت کل تک ملتوی کر دی۔ تفصیل: https://t.co/yYV50ChuxN https://t.co/bvQVZWOl4f
- Sep 14, 202640x their median
’یہاں ایک وزیرِاعلیٰ کی بے عزتی ہوئی، جس کا جواب میں اِن سے ضرور لوں گا‘: سہیل آفریدی کے دورہ لاہور کا احوال مکمل خبر: https://t.co/io4wUNTWTk https://t.co/PyG0BOhg6l
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 100 interactions against 4.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 824 original posts, its engagement rate beats 18% of 20,182 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 16K times each, and 0.633% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.342% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 27.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 824 posts sampled, 67% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 129x its own typical post.
- What is BBC News اردو's engagement rate on X?
- BBC News اردو (@BBCUrdu) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 824 original posts from the last 30 days against 4,644,099 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, BBC News اردو sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,424 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 @BBCUrdu have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 18% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,182 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 @BBCUrdu post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 27.47 posts per day across the measured window.