Only Way is Essex engagement report
@OnlyWayIsEssex - 969K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 20, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 23 interactions against 969K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 21% of 1,003 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 17K times each, and 0.133% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.79% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 50 interactions, about 2.2x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #towie, #youalrighthun.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 20, 2026. Recurring tags: #towie, #youalrighthun.
Compared with accounts its own size
Only Way is Essex's engagement rate beats 21% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 11% 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 0.002%, Only Way is Essex sits above the 10th percentile of the 9,981 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.007%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.007% |
| 50th percentile | 0.047% |
| 75th percentile | 0.325% |
| 90th percentile | 2.60% |
| 99th percentile | 357.9% |
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 17:00 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 | 0% | 15K |
| 01:00 UTC | +4% | 15K |
| 02:00 UTC | -1% | 14K |
| 03:00 UTC | -2% | 15K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 05:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 06:00 UTC | -7% | 13K |
| 07:00 UTC | -6% | 14K |
| 08:00 UTC | -7% | 17K |
| 09:00 UTC | -2% | 19K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 20K |
| 11:00 UTC | -2% | 22K |
| 12:00 UTC | -1% | 24K |
| 13:00 UTC | +1% | 27K |
| 14:00 UTC | -2% | 29K |
| 15:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 16:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 17:00 UTC | -1% | 28K |
| 18:00 UTC | +1% | 25K |
| 19:00 UTC | 0% | 24K |
| 20:00 UTC | 0% | 22K |
| 21:00 UTC | +1% | 19K |
| 22:00 UTC | +1% | 17K |
| 23:00 UTC | +1% | 15K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +8% | 59K |
| Monday | +8% | 72K |
| Tuesday | +1% | 94K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 78K |
| Thursday | -3% | 71K |
| Friday | -5% | 73K |
| Saturday | +2% | 64K |
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 | +79% | +73% to +85% | 5.8K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -49% | -50% to -47% | 6.1K |
| Typical length | - | -7% | -8% to -5% | 9.0K |
- 100% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 79% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 0% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 49% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 95 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 7% 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
- Aug 17, 20262.2x their median
Joe and Junaid are officially engaged! ππ€ #TOWIE https://t.co/tnEkt2UTD1
- Aug 17, 20262.0x their median
"I didn't think about Harry" π¬ #TOWIE https://t.co/YPXKllDI5E
- Aug 17, 20261.9x their median
The girls have a special surprise for Saffron's birthday π #TOWIE https://t.co/63Nvx9Tb09
- Aug 10, 20261.8x their median
The friendship has changed for Lauren and Junaid... π #TOWIE https://t.co/Bmqzc8WYA8
- Aug 9, 20261.7x their median
Lauren gets emotional at Sophieβs motherβs blessing ceremony π₯Ίπ€ #TOWIE https://t.co/29Ak6XVaL2
- Aug 7, 20261.6x their median
Big rows... bigger questions π #TOWIE continues Sunday 9pm on ITV2 & ITVX https://t.co/gXceRPOe25
- Aug 17, 20261.6x their median
"You're the missing piece" π§©π Joe and Junaid are engaged π₯Ή #TOWIE https://t.co/KIMV8wIaNs
- Aug 10, 2026
Was the group chat a bad idea? π #TOWIE https://t.co/CAAs9P3mhF
- Aug 3, 2026
"I'm just struggling" π₯Ί Jordan opens up to Amber about his health #TOWIE https://t.co/aOXoecJvNT
- Aug 10, 2026
Junaid and Lauren have a heart to heart π ...and Junaid has exciting news π #TOWIE https://t.co/UIMNL0HXaI
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 23 interactions against 969K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 21% of 1,003 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 17K times each, and 0.133% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.79% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 50 interactions, about 2.2x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #towie, #youalrighthun.
- What is Only Way is Essex's engagement rate on X?
- Only Way is Essex (@OnlyWayIsEssex) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 968,634 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, Only Way is Essex sits above the 10th percentile of the 9,981 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 @OnlyWayIsEssex have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 21% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size 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 @OnlyWayIsEssex post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.