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BFBS Forces News engagement report

@ForcesNews - 124K followers on X

Measured over 56 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 4, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.018%
of 124K followers
Per impression
0.779%
2.8K views on a typical post
Reach
2.29%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
22
interactions (median)
Saved
0.018%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.97/day
active 13% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 22 interactions against 124K followers, an engagement rate of 0.018%. Measured over 56 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% of 21,185 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 2.8K times each, and 0.779% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.27% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 56 posts sampled, 59% carry an image or video and 75% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.3K interactions, about 106x its own typical post.

Measured over 56 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 4, 2026. Recurring tag: #forcesnews.

Compared with accounts its own size

BFBS Forces News's engagement rate beats 26% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 35% 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 0.018%, BFBS Forces News sits above the 10th percentile of the 213,381 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.147%
p750.699%
p902.61%
p9982.9%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 213,381 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,403 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.147%
75th percentile0.699%
90th percentile2.61%
99th percentile82.9%

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 16:00 UTC, and Thursday 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: 16:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 16:00 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video59% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link75% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 59% 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.
  • 75% 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 229 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

  • Oct 1, 2026106x their median

    Meet the C25🇨🇦 Colt Canada's latest assault rifle has arrived in the UK as the company looks to expand into the European market With the British Army preparing to replace the SA80, all eyes turn to Project Grayburn👀 https://t.co/aNFMkbzdkL

    2.0K1969815185K viewsView on X
  • Oct 2, 202657x their median

    "We're incredibly proud to have the Duchess of Edinburgh as our Colonel-in-Chief"🗣️ The Duchess of Edinburgh attended the REME Memorial Day at the Royal British Legion National Remembrance Gardens🌹 The day also saw the dedication of a new memorial centrepiece https://t.co/Ej0pTD9y0q

    1.1K11718517K viewsView on X
  • Sep 30, 202614x their median

    "We can fly supersonic in the area... that's not possible in Germany"🗣️ We found out why German pilots love flying in the UK skies when we visited Exercise Cobra Warrior✈️🐍 https://t.co/iiEjNLtYW3

    265334252K viewsView on X
  • Oct 3, 20266.1x their median

    For Red 1, the Duxford display will mark the ending of an incredible journey with the @rafredarrows Watch the final display LIVE on BFBS Forces News YouTube channel 🔗 https://t.co/n0plbNABOG https://t.co/c6gJgQVJf2

    11514507.1K viewsView on X
  • Oct 2, 20265.5x their median

    🇬🇧 Royal Marines have returned to the Faroe Islands for the first time since WWII Exercise Lion Protector saw UK Commandos work alongside Danish forces to bolster security in the strategically vital GIUK gap🔗⬇️ https://t.co/1epnGuLx0U

    10218013.8K viewsView on X
  • Oct 3, 20264.4x their median

    The Red Arrows are here! The display is a final performance for a number of the crew, including Team Leader, Red 1 Watch LIVE ⬇️ 🔗https://t.co/n0plbNA3Z8 https://t.co/g3AtaGpIUJ

    8114102.9K viewsView on X
  • Oct 2, 20263.8x their median

    One month at sea, now HMS Dauntless is back in Portsmouth⚓️ The Type 45 destroyer has completed a period of work-up trials designed to prepare the ship and crew for future ops https://t.co/AxhKjBa5kC https://t.co/pKugfjJyix

    729204.0K viewsView on X
  • Oct 2, 20263.2x their median

    ⚓️ HMS Dauntless is back in Portsmouth The Type 45 destroyer has returned after around a month of work-up sea trials, preparing the warship and crew for future operations following maintenance🔗⬇️ https://t.co/AxhKjBaDaa

    619003.5K viewsView on X
  • Oct 2, 20262.3x their median

    A security breach waiting to happen? 🚨 Several MOD drivers look set to strike over "frightening" security concerns, claiming the safety of military personnel and civil servants are being put at risk Sian Grzeszczyk-Melbourne explains 🗣️ https://t.co/SLZewrb1A9

    3313415.3K viewsView on X
  • Oct 1, 20262.1x their median

    🚁50 years of helicopter training at RAF Shawbury From its move in 1976 to training around 900 personnel a year, No. 1 Flying Training School is marking five decades of rotary-wing training🔗⬇️ https://t.co/GpcXzSw6Pm

    379013.5K 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

#forcesnews

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 22 interactions against 124K followers, an engagement rate of 0.018%. Measured over 56 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% of 21,185 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 2.8K times each, and 0.779% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.27% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 56 posts sampled, 59% carry an image or video and 75% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.3K interactions, about 106x its own typical post.

What is BFBS Forces News's engagement rate on X?
BFBS Forces News (@ForcesNews) has an engagement rate of 0.018%, based on the median interactions across 56 original posts from the last 30 days against 124,163 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.018%, BFBS Forces News sits above the 10th percentile of the 213,381 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 @ForcesNews have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 26% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 @ForcesNews post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.97 posts per day across the measured window.

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