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Niall Horan engagement report

@NiallOfficial - 32M followers on X

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.033%
of 32M followers
Per impression
1.57%
678K views on a typical post
Reach
2.10%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
11K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.021%
142 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.83/day
active 60% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 11K interactions against 32M followers, an engagement rate of 0.033%. Posts are seen about 678K times each, and 1.57% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.10% 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, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 26% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 48K interactions, about 4.5x its own typical post.

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.033%, Niall Horan sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,491 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.677%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,491 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,891 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 percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.677%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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: 15:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 15:00 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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Tuesday
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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link26% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 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.
  • 26% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 153 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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

  • Sep 13, 20264.5x their median

    thanks for the birthday wishes ❤️ can’t wait to see you all on tour soon https://t.co/yp9MVQUeZW

    40K6.2K1.9K515589K viewsView on X
  • Sep 29, 20262.9x their median

    This Town was released 10 years ago today. it was the first song i released out on my own and it’s so special to me for many reasons. when i think back i remember a lot of big pop songs with big productions , around at that time. i feel This Town stood out as it was just one voice and an acoustic guitar. after that, you guys all over the world really connected to it and it took on a life of its own. to reach over a billion streams and see you all singing it back to me all these years later , is absolutely unbelievable . i’ll never really be able to explain how grateful i am for all of this and for your support. a few words on stage , a short caption is not enough words to explain how thankful i am. i’m working on a few special things to celebrate that will be coming very soon. it was my song and now it’s ours happy 10 years of this town ❤️

    25K5.1K471549565K viewsView on X
  • Jun 5, 20261.7x their median

    dinner party is yours ! hope you love it as much as i do https://t.co/EGw0nHa53f https://t.co/NwnQWQylL4

    23K5.3K768301510K viewsView on X
  • Sep 9, 20262.7x their median

    tour rehearsals https://t.co/NTFQgzKPyL

    25K2.8K402296617K viewsView on X
  • Sep 20, 20262.6x their median

    rehearsals finished. see you tuesday birmingham ❤️ https://t.co/hXLDl8qD5S

    24K2.4K353228567K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20262.1x their median

    last few weeks have been lovely!!! tour prep now well and truly underway. can’t wait to see you all https://t.co/aOF8kLQAaD

    19K2.1K553305639K viewsView on X
  • Sep 23, 20261.9x their median

    Night One Birmingham https://t.co/RIpjI3MNQS

    18K2.3K24187421K viewsView on X
  • Sep 2, 20261.8x their median

    first day of tour rehearsals https://t.co/QBThrELBVG

    16K2.1K477326468K viewsView on X
  • Oct 20, 20261.7x their median

    to celebrate 10 years of ‘This Town', i asked you to film yourselves dancing with someone special, somewhere special. videos were sent from all over the world to make this fan edition. i hope you love it as much as i do. https://t.co/bak0Yp2BcR https://t.co/eNnty2Ocrk

    15K2.2K2141581.0M viewsView on X
  • Jun 9, 2026

    had the best time with all of you at the new york dinner party last night ❤️ https://t.co/CV12z5xjzD

    15K1.2K23161161K 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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 11K interactions against 32M followers, an engagement rate of 0.033%. Posts are seen about 678K times each, and 1.57% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.10% 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, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 26% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 48K interactions, about 4.5x its own typical post.

What is Niall Horan's engagement rate on X?
Niall Horan (@NiallOfficial) has an engagement rate of 0.033%, based on the median interactions across 23 original posts from the last 30 days against 32,358,168 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.033%, Niall Horan sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,491 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 @NiallOfficial have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @NiallOfficial post?
Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.83 posts per day across the measured window.

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