Leo Varadkar engagement report
@LeoVaradkar - 437K followers on X
Measured over 11 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 24, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 46 interactions against 437K followers, an engagement rate of 0.011%. Measured over 11 original posts, its engagement rate beats 34% 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 45K times each, and 0.101% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 10.4% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.83 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 11 posts sampled, 36% carry an image or video and 73% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.1K interactions, about 111x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #chile, #clubdemadrid.
Measured over 11 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 24, 2026. Recurring tags: #chile, #clubdemadrid.
Compared with accounts its own size
Leo Varadkar's engagement rate beats 34% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 7% 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 0.011%, Leo Varadkar sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,956 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 | 0.678% |
| 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 16:00 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 | 36% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 73% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 36% 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.
- 73% 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 364 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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
- Jun 26, 2026111x 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, 202638x 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
- Sep 14, 202624x their median
Today, we publish a Transformative AI Strategy for Europe. Over the last few months, we’ve rallied researchers and engaged with governments to develop a plan for protecting the prosperity, sovereignty, and security of Europeans in a time of rapid AI progress. https://t.co/Jc34ptCRMc @MonikaSchnitzer and I are honored to have convened an all-star team of thinkers and researchers contributing ambitious near-term objectives to make Europe relevant again, including: — Creating a Member State Alliance for Supply Chain Security (@anton_d_leicht et al) — Making European institutions ready to act in a transformative AI world (Conor McGlynn et al) — Securing Europe's share of global AI compute, in a ‘European Way’ that benefits local communities (@philip_fox_ et al) — Ensuring resilience to AI crises (@ben_s_bucknall et al) — Making Europe the global leader in assurance technology — And more objectives around security of supply and leverage (@milorignell et al), economic strength (@FraukeStehr et al), and safety/security (@NoemiDreksler et al) Our all-star senior expert council of Europe’s best and brightest (and non-European friends) reviewed drafts, provided strategic advice, and made suggestions for how to make the strategy more useful: @Ph_Aghion @Christophkw @bakkermichiel @ischinger @vestager @aleks_madry @FuestClemens Marta Kwiatkowska @LeoVaradkar @antonosika @DAcemogluMIT @Yoshua_Bengio It’s never been more clear: AI is real, and Europe needs to act. We’ve had all the warning shots and wake-up calls we need. Now the question is ‘what must be done?’ This strategy is our answer. https://t.co/Jc34ptCRMc
- Jun 23, 20267.6x 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
- Sep 22, 202616x their median
There's a protest tomorrow (Wednesday) against the crackdown on LGBT+ life in Turkey - Turkish Embassy, 8 Raglan Road, D4 at 12.45pm. I can't be there but promised to show my support. Turkey, one of the few muslim countries that does not criminalise gay people, was relatively tolerant up until recent years. But like other authoritarians, the increasingly unpopular President Erdogan is trying to distract from his government's failings by targeting and demonising minority groups. Just like in Hungary, his real target is not gay or lesbian Turks who he had no interest in baiting for decades. Rather it's a part of a plan to extinguish what is remains of Turkey's democracy and her people's freedoms. EU and Irish government should not turn a blind eye to it 🇹🇷🏳️🌈🇪🇺
- Jul 15, 20268.5x 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, 20268.0x 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, 20267.4x 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, 20267.3x 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, 20266.6x 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
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 46 interactions against 437K followers, an engagement rate of 0.011%. Measured over 11 original posts, its engagement rate beats 34% 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 45K times each, and 0.101% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 10.4% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.83 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 11 posts sampled, 36% carry an image or video and 73% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.1K interactions, about 111x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #chile, #clubdemadrid.
- What is Leo Varadkar's engagement rate on X?
- Leo Varadkar (@LeoVaradkar) has an engagement rate of 0.011%, based on the median interactions across 11 original posts from the last 30 days against 436,583 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.011%, Leo Varadkar sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,956 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 34% 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 @LeoVaradkar post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.83 posts per day across the measured window.