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City Xtra engagement report

@City_Xtra - 860K followers on X

Measured over 93 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.304%
of 860K followers
Per impression
4.28%
61K views on a typical post
Reach
7.10%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
2.6K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.038%
23 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.27/day
active 20% of days
Peak time
20:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 2.6K interactions against 860K followers, an engagement rate of 0.304%. Measured over 93 original posts, its engagement rate beats 88% of 3,899 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 61K times each, and 4.28% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.10% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 93 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video and 6% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 5.1x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #mancity, #onthisday, #loanwatch.

Measured over 93 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026. Recurring tags: #mancity, #onthisday, #loanwatch.

Compared with accounts its own size

City Xtra's engagement rate beats 88% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 89% 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 0.304%, City Xtra sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,856 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.081% to 0.439%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.439%
p902.10%
p99155.6%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,856 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 97,248 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 percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.439%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile155.6%

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 20:00 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.

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: 20:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 20:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%53K
01:00 UTC-2%53K
02:00 UTC-3%52K
03:00 UTC-4%55K
04:00 UTC-6%44K
05:00 UTC-4%43K
06:00 UTC-4%50K
07:00 UTC-5%54K
08:00 UTC-4%63K
09:00 UTC-3%72K
10:00 UTC-2%75K
11:00 UTC-3%81K
12:00 UTC-2%90K
13:00 UTC-2%98K
14:00 UTC-3%101K
15:00 UTC-2%105K
16:00 UTC-4%102K
17:00 UTC-3%95K
18:00 UTC-1%88K
19:00 UTC-2%83K
20:00 UTC-1%77K
21:00 UTC-1%69K
22:00 UTC-2%60K
23:00 UTC-2%53K
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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%238K
Monday0%302K
Tuesday-3%302K
Wednesday-1%257K
Thursday-2%250K
Friday-3%259K
Saturday+3%233K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

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  • Aug 21, 20263.0x their median

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  • Aug 29, 20262.8x their median

    11 years ago today, #ManCity signed @KevinDeBruyne! ๐Ÿ’™ โœ”๏ธ 422 Appearances โšฝ๏ธ 108 Goals ๐Ÿ…ฐ๏ธ 177 Assists ๐Ÿ† Premier League, x6 ๐Ÿ† League Cup, x5 ๐Ÿ† Community Shield, x3 ๐Ÿ† FA Cup, x2 ๐Ÿ† UEFA Super Cup, x1 ๐Ÿ† FIFA Club World Cup, x1 ๐Ÿ† UEFA Champions League, x1 ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ IFFHS Men's World Team, x6 ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ FIFA FIFPro World 11, x5 ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ ESM Team of the Year, x5 ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ PFA Premier League Team of the Year, x5 ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ Manchester City Player of the Season, x4 ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season, x4 ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ UEFA Team of the Year, x3 ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ Best Belgian Player Abroad, x3 ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ IFFHS World's Best Playmaker, x3 ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ Premier League Playmaker of the Season, x3 ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ PFA Players' Player of the Year, x2 ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ Premier League Goal of the Month, x2 ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ Premier League Player of the Season, x2 ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ UEFA Champions League Team of the Season, x2 ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ FSA Player of the Year, x1 ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ Manchester City Goal of the Season, x1 ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ UEFA Champions League Midfielder of the Season, x1 ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ IFFHS UEFA Team of the Decade ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ Sports Illustrated Premier League Team of the Decade

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  • Aug 29, 20262.6x their median

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    6.2K241259146273K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20262.2x their median

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    5.3K37111686126K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20262.2x their median

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    5.3K281281782K 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

#mancity#onthisday#loanwatch#ucl

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 2.6K interactions against 860K followers, an engagement rate of 0.304%. Measured over 93 original posts, its engagement rate beats 88% of 3,899 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 61K times each, and 4.28% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.10% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 93 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video and 6% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 5.1x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #mancity, #onthisday, #loanwatch.

What is City Xtra's engagement rate on X?
City Xtra (@City_Xtra) has an engagement rate of 0.304%, based on the median interactions across 93 original posts from the last 30 days against 859,997 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.304%, City Xtra sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,856 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 @City_Xtra have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 88% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 @City_Xtra post?
Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.27 posts per day across the measured window.

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