National Crime Agency (NCA) engagement report
@NCA_UK - 169K followers on X
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 21, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 130 interactions against 169K followers, an engagement rate of 0.077%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 49% of 20,183 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 11K times each, and 1.18% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.51% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.6 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.3K interactions, about 35x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #antislaveryweek, #opmachinize, #reportfraud.
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 21, 2026. Recurring tags: #antislaveryweek, #opmachinize, #reportfraud.
Compared with accounts its own size
National Crime Agency (NCA)'s engagement rate beats 49% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 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 46% 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 0.077%, National Crime Agency (NCA) sits above the 25th percentile of the 202,368 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.142%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.142% |
| 75th percentile | 0.672% |
| 90th percentile | 2.54% |
| 99th percentile | 82.6% |
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 09:00 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.
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 | 100% 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.
- 100% 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 258 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 15, 202635x their median
A group who fraudulently claimed to be able to provide PPE during the pandemic but instead spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on house renovations and luxury cars have been convicted after a NCA investigation. Read the full story ➡️ https://t.co/nGSMEW25CW https://t.co/QWGGrpG5kb
- Oct 17, 20265.7x their median
Fraudsters who agreed millions of pounds in contracts to supply healthcare staff PPE during the Covid-19 pandemic but instead bought luxury cars and renovated their home have been sentenced. Read the full story ➡️ https://t.co/x9RUZBaKV2 https://t.co/HujonVMSlf
- Oct 13, 20265.5x their median
Almost 30 suspected scammers have been arrested and 3.7 million online profiles and accounts removed as part of a NCA-hosted crackdown against fraud perpetrated from across Africa. Read the full story ➡️ https://t.co/WhO22PdUvL https://t.co/CsAhxVzVFw
- Jul 16, 20267.5x their median
Two young men have been sentenced for launching a cyber attack on Transport for London (TfL) which cost tens of millions of pounds in losses and inconvenienced thousands of customers. Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers were identified by the NCA and @CityPolice following the attack on TfL’s network in 2024. They both pleaded guilty to the attack last month in what was only the second criminal prosecution of its kind in the UK under the Computer Misuse Act (CMA). Jubair and Flowers were both leading members of the online criminal collective known as Scattered Spider. Today both were each sentenced to five years and six months imprisonment. Read the full story ➡️ https://t.co/tN9SqQt4OQ
- Oct 8, 20262.8x their median
Two men who supplied pistols and ammunition to organised crime groups have been convicted and sentenced. Read the full story ➡️ https://t.co/g2mKVjenAW https://t.co/EiZ9mUw4Oy
- Oct 2, 20262.5x their median
Members of a crime group which smuggled almost £30 million of cash out of the UK to the United Arab Emirates hidden in suitcases have been sentenced. Read the full story ➡️ https://t.co/DexcXNHQrS https://t.co/vX4fAP1gf3
- Aug 6, 20262.5x their median
The creator and administrator of the Ransom Cartel ransomware group received a 16-year federal prison sentence. From 2021 to 2023, Belarusian national Maksim Silnikau and his Ransom Cartel conspirators launched ransomware attacks on at least 18 companies around the world, including companies based in California, New York, and Nebraska. After his arrest, Silnikau was extradited from Poland to face prosecution in the United States. By leveraging its global investigative reach and international partnerships, the @FBI will continue to pursue ransomware actors and dismantle their infrastructure. 🔗 https://t.co/whhO0aPQew
- Sep 16, 20262.4x their median
Five members of an organised crime group responsible for facilitating illegal entry to the UK of Vietnamese migrants and laundered more than £1.6 million in cash from that criminality have been jailed for a total of almost 40 years. Read the full story ➡️ https://t.co/zjeWe5zxJZ https://t.co/JBdVe7kM12
- Oct 15, 20262.3x their median
A 45-year-old woman has been jailed for 25 months after admitting smuggling 51.2kg of cannabis from Thailand on a flight to the United Kingdom, following a NCA investigation. Read the full story ➡️ https://t.co/s4JZ1EFuzA https://t.co/LMG4rQP8MT
- Jul 13, 20262.9x their median
Russia's war doesn't stop on the battlefield. From cyber attacks to information manipulation, the Kremlin continues to threaten security across Europe. Today, the UK and EU are taking coordinated action against this Russian hostile activity. https://t.co/RttJTFryEw
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 130 interactions against 169K followers, an engagement rate of 0.077%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 49% of 20,183 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 11K times each, and 1.18% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.51% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.6 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.3K interactions, about 35x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #antislaveryweek, #opmachinize, #reportfraud.
- What is National Crime Agency (NCA)'s engagement rate on X?
- National Crime Agency (NCA) (@NCA_UK) has an engagement rate of 0.077%, based on the median interactions across 13 original posts from the last 30 days against 169,270 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.077%, National Crime Agency (NCA) sits above the 25th percentile of the 202,368 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 @NCA_UK have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 49% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 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 @NCA_UK post?
- Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.6 posts per day across the measured window.