Canadian Armed Forces engagement report
@CanadianForces - 185K followers on X
Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 14, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 103 interactions against 185K followers, an engagement rate of 0.056%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 49% 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 5.7K times each, and 1.80% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.09% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.63 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 844 interactions, about 11x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #rcn, #canadaremembers.
Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 14, 2026. Recurring tags: #rcn, #canadaremembers.
Compared with accounts its own size
Canadian Armed Forces's engagement rate beats 49% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 59% 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 0.056%, Canadian Armed Forces sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
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 18:00 UTC, and Monday 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 | 67% 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.
- 67% 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 210 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
- Jul 6, 202611x their median
Prime Minister Carney announces the preferred supplier for the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project – the largest defence procurement in Canadian history. Learn more: https://t.co/upKkUiQtad https://t.co/MVrueRDgnE
- Jul 10, 20267.0x their median
Yesterday, First World War soldier Pte Albert Henry Detmold was laid to rest with military honours in France. Joined by family and Canadian and French representatives, he was buried by The North Saskatchewan Regiment. https://t.co/oa7dStl4bq
- Jul 9, 20265.1x their median
A Canadian soldier of the First World War, Private Albert (Bert) Henry Detmold, was laid to rest with military honours at Loos British Cemetery, Loos-en-Gohelle, France, today. https://t.co/HAdfZVDj74 https://t.co/JAAA6RzT9u
- Aug 9, 20262.0x their median
Today, on National Peacekeepers' Day, we give thanks for all those who have worked in support of international peace and security operations and remember the nine Canadian Armed Forces members killed on Aug. 9, 1974, when their UN aircraft was shot down in the Middle East. 1/3 https://t.co/YLCvExMFmF
- Jul 8, 20262.6x their median
On July 9 at 8:45 am EDT, Canadians are invited to tune in for the committal ceremony for Pte Detmold, a Canadian soldier of the First World War. The ceremony will be live from Loos British Cemetery in Loos-en-Gohelle, France. https://t.co/EeAmrLUkOM https://t.co/oD5hSwWSXE
- Sep 21, 20261.9x their median
Did you know the Canadian Armed Forces has over 100 possible career options? Join us to learn about the enrolment process and available career opportunities: https://t.co/kkroutQBqh https://t.co/QJcKGKlcOe
- Aug 25, 20261.9x their median
The CAF has launched Operation NANOOK‑NUNAKPUT, taking place until September 25 in and around Resolute Bay, Nunavut, to strengthen security along the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. https://t.co/u4uwQnFRfR https://t.co/lvf5cF5KV7
- Aug 27, 20261.7x their median
From August 15 to 25, 1917, Canadian soldiers took part in the Battle of Hill 70. During the fight for this high ground overlooking the French town of Lens, nearly two thousand Canadian soldiers lost their lives. 1/4 https://t.co/sjN4VEDvur
- Oct 9, 20261.7x their median
On October 8, a headstone rededication ceremony for Sgt Norman Harold McLennan was conducted by The Royal Canadian Regiment at Courcelette British Cemetery, France, exactly 110 years after his death during the Battle of Ancre Heights. 1/4 https://t.co/P6Fixt75lV
- Sep 1, 2026
Every posting affects more than just a CAF member. At the annual Seamless Canada conference, we collaborated with our partners to identify solutions to make relocations easier for military members, their spouses, and their children. https://t.co/qsIuj21qGF https://t.co/kv7Hcdzsih
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 103 interactions against 185K followers, an engagement rate of 0.056%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 49% 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 5.7K times each, and 1.80% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.09% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.63 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 844 interactions, about 11x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #rcn, #canadaremembers.
- What is Canadian Armed Forces's engagement rate on X?
- Canadian Armed Forces (@CanadianForces) has an engagement rate of 0.056%, based on the median interactions across 9 original posts from the last 30 days against 185,291 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.056%, Canadian Armed Forces sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,261 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 @CanadianForces have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 49% 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 @CanadianForces post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.63 posts per day across the measured window.