Leo Varadkar engagement report
@LeoVaradkar - 438K followers on X
Measured over 8 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 102 interactions against 438K followers, an engagement rate of 0.023%. Measured over 8 original posts, its engagement rate beats 42% of 3,917 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 60K times each, and 0.17% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 13.8% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.73 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 8 posts sampled, 13% carry an image or video and 88% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.1K interactions, about 50x its own typical post.
Measured over 8 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Leo Varadkar's engagement rate beats 42% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 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 13% 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 0.023%, Leo Varadkar sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,856 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.081%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 155.6% |
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 07:00 UTC, and Saturday 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% | 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Jun 26, 202650x their median
History in Belfast as Ireland script their first win over India across formats 👏 📝: https://t.co/6mBPoGJvwG https://t.co/WWPiyfXtaY
- Jul 18, 202617x their median
You heard @elmo – ONE DAY until the FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show, produced by @GlblCtzn! Madonna, Shakira, BTS, Justin Bieber and more will light up New York New Jersey Stadium tomorrow. Elmo is ready – are YOU? 🎉 https://t.co/hxNRoy0JxY
- Jun 23, 20269.4x their median
Nepal Supreme Court rules in favour of equal marriage in huge win for LGBTQ+ rights ➡️ https://t.co/PPHHpc2fLO 📷 Getty https://t.co/TkMlnEROFK
- Jul 15, 20263.8x their median
Crowds crossed from Spain into Gibraltar after a new treaty signed between EU and Britain lets Gibraltar residents enter Spain with residence cards and Spanish citizens with government ID, aiming to ease daily crossings and reduce delays https://t.co/QjffCsiO6z https://t.co/yJlxTNLQ3h
- Jul 5, 20263.7x their median
Writing today about the early challenges that face Andy Burnham as he takes on the job of Prime Minister. Some parallels with my own experience of becoming Taoiseach back in 2017 https://t.co/ZI2CaMEpJX
- Jul 2, 20263.4x their median
I am joining @GlblCtzn to help ensure children everywhere can learn, play and thrive through the #FIFAeducationfund We're calling on 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇩🇪🇵🇹 to act now and help turn the World Cup into a legacy for children https://t.co/LXl0vh7fUR https://t.co/XjIhdyKJdM
- Aug 15, 20263.3x their median
In the last five years, about 150k Irish citizens emigrated. And, almost exactly the same number returned. When compared with British people leaving the UK, Australians leaving Australia, Canadians leaving Canada, Germans, kiwis - what REALLY stands about Ireland is the very high rate of return. Read more in tomorrow's Sunday Times https://t.co/kqqXoTmxJ7
- Jul 15, 20263.0x their median
The incoming hosepipe bans announced on Monday by Uisce Éireann have brought the huge amount of water used to cool data centres back into the spotlight. https://t.co/gdE3AyPovL
- Jun 29, 20261.7x their median
35 countries in the Americas - only 5 still criminalise homosexuality. All are anglophone & formerly British colonies. In this Harvard commentary, I explain why it is no coincidence. On July 8th, a few days after Pride, the Privy Council in London will hear a landmark case on the matter https://t.co/o1gehpeszx
- Jul 29, 20261.6x their median
There are many ways to reform inheritance (gift) tax and to make it fairer without reducing the yield. A basic principle should be that income that's never been earned or taxed should not be taxed at a lower rate than we tax people's labour - i mo thuairaimse - anyway https://t.co/PHBYPpsBsQ
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 102 interactions against 438K followers, an engagement rate of 0.023%. Measured over 8 original posts, its engagement rate beats 42% of 3,917 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 60K times each, and 0.17% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 13.8% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.73 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 8 posts sampled, 13% carry an image or video and 88% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.1K interactions, about 50x its own typical post.
- What is Leo Varadkar's engagement rate on X?
- Leo Varadkar (@LeoVaradkar) has an engagement rate of 0.023%, based on the median interactions across 8 original posts from the last 30 days against 437,649 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.023%, Leo Varadkar sits above the 25th 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 @LeoVaradkar have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 42% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 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 @LeoVaradkar post?
- Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.73 posts per day across the measured window.