Pádraig Belton engagement report
@PadraigBelton - 80K followers on X
Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 10, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 110 interactions against 80K followers, an engagement rate of 0.138%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 57% of 21,185 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 2.6K times each, and 4.15% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.31% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts 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 19 posts sampled, 63% carry an image or video, 26% are part of a thread and 11% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.0K interactions, about 37x its own typical post.
Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 10, 2026. Recurring tag: #fluvaccine.
Compared with accounts its own size
Pádraig Belton's engagement rate beats 57% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 81% 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 0.138%, Pádraig Belton sits above the 25th percentile of the 212,925 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.025% to 0.146%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.146% |
| 75th percentile | 0.698% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 83.0% |
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 | 63% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 11% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 63% 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.
- 11% 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 314 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
- Aug 25, 202637x their median
Dolly Parton, what a wholesome and wholly amazing woman. Visiting Ireland, she popped into a pub owned by Kerry Gaelic football legend Páidí Ó Sé. She came for a pint but ended up singing - her Coat of Many Colours, which told the story of growing up in poverty in a Smoky Mountains village. She was born in 1946, as much the rest of the world entered an unprecedented period of postwar prosperity - less so if you were one of 14 siblings born in a log cabin to a sharecropper who had never learnt to read. And she gave so much of her money from music away - 100 million books, in honour of her father. One book a month to children participating in her Imagination Library, not only in the US but Canada, the UK, Australia, and even here in Ireland. She campaigned strongly for gay rights, speaking out for same sex marriage from 2009 - not everyone in country music did. Her humour was self-deprecating and relentless. ‘I am a self-made woman, and I have the doctor bills to prove it’ was typical. (As was ‘I was the first woman to burn my bra—it took the fire department four days to put it out.’). But even popping out for a quiet pint in the middle of Kerry she looked a million dollars - and was intensely aware of the shared musical past linking Appalachia and here. Hers, she said, was ‘Smokey Mountain DNA, but is from those old songs brought over from Ireland and England.’ Some woman. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.
- Sep 2, 202611x their median
My two, with Italy tans and Irish rain, off to conquer second and fifth forms. Something in my eye. https://t.co/Flcok74IHI
- Aug 25, 20269.0x their median
Currently got an American couple in our charity shop in Donegal. I can hear every word they’re saying to each other 30 feet away at the other side of the shop! Why do they always talk so loudly 🤷
- Aug 28, 20268.3x their median
This story - which is horrific - really needs urgent follow up by Ireland's elected representatives. A 14 year-old girl, an Irish citizen, was raped and recorded while drugged and unconscious over a period of 15 months, by a senior politician and cantonal legislator from Switzerland's SVP, according to Swiss prosecutors. Police say they have 40 hours of recordings the politician made while doing this. According to the Irish Times, after her mother discovered this, she went to the Irish Embassy in Switzerland. Embassy staff told her they 'could not get involved in legal matters'. If all this is true, then questions need to be urgently raised and answered about this in Dáil Éireann. Equally shocking is the behaviour of Swiss authorities: after Swiss police began to investigate, Swiss immigration authorities issued a deportation order against the mother and daughter. Swiss authorities also denied them welfare benefits while they remained in Switzerland to assist with the police investigation. Both the mother and daughter, incidentally, are EU citizens - the mother, who police say suffered similar attacks to her daughter, is Polish. Bear in mind EU citizens enjoy a fundamental right to live and work in Switzerland under the Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons. https://t.co/erWJNecbCF
- Aug 20, 20266.2x their median
On every single flight my little fellow’s ever made with KLM, he’s had a flying lesson. This time, he saw the same pilot a second time. So the pilot led with, ‘Okay, tell us what you remember.’ Thanks @klm. 🙏 This is how you grow pilots. 🧑✈️👩✈️🇳🇱 https://t.co/5VAbpFJEY7
- Aug 31, 20266.0x their median
Boarding a flight at Belfast City. There was a little girl watching the incoming flight land with her nose pressed in the window, and the pilot gave her the hugest wave once he was on the stand.
- Oct 6, 20265.9x their median
Approaching my mum's anniversary and remembering how whenever she left Rome, she always tossed a coin into the Trevi Fountain, to return. So what happens to all the coins? They scoop them up twice a week, and it provides €1.5- €2 million a year for food banks and soup kitchens in Rome.
- Aug 21, 20265.5x their median
I've been quietly stunned to watch my daughter, a Dún Laoghaire girl who loves Gaeilge and camogie, this week coming into herself also as an increasingly stylish and fluent young Italian – who takes her lifelong friend Florence, visiting from England, dancing in the piazza and bargaining in the shops. For a year she's stolen my iPhone to work her way through Italian on duolingo. I thought nothing of it. But she seemed taller, somehow, as she moved her hands and brought down the prices in the market in Pisa. 'Non, solo dieci euro,' she insisted. They'd wanted 15 euro; but she got her shiny new bag, indeed, for 10.
- Sep 5, 20261.9x their median
It was the kind of afternoon you still mention years later when someone asks what 2012 felt like in London. For a couple of hours on a Thursday afternoon, in a host city full of Union flags - when Katie won, London felt a little like Bray. I was living with my then-girlfriend (now long-suffering bean chéile) in Crystal Palace when Katie Taylor had her match for gold in those wonderful Olympics in 2012. Every Irish person in London that day seemed to know someone who was there, or was texting someone who was. President Higgins said she lifted the spirits of a nation that badly needed raising after the crash years, and he was right. Was watching it on BBC iPlayer. The broadcast, for me, lasted about the first 30 seconds. So many, presumably Irish, people tuned in the website was completely overwhelmed. (Tbf I hoped - wrongly - the match wouldn’t last much longer than that….) But I could hear from the celebrating next door Ireland’s first gold of the Games, in the first women’s Olympic boxing tournament, Ireland’s first clean boxing gold in a generation, along with 1.1 million people watching on RTÉ, and a crowd in the stadium singing the Fields of Athenry. An arena of tricolours was the answer to the Telegraph daftly claiming her as British. In earlier matches the crowd was measured as louder than a jumbo jet; too loud for Princess Anne, there for the final, covering her ears. For Irish people making their lives in London- getting their names mispronounced, all the little comments - it carried extra layers. It felt personal. It felt the whole city briefly belonged to you. Thank you @KatieTaylor, for all of it. Go well into retirement.
- Sep 25, 20261.7x their median
My ten year-old is home sick. I’m writing from home and have got my little patient some hot chocolate, orange juice, chocolate croissants, tissues, and chocolate-dipped strawberries. I am basically treating her with chocolate.
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
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 110 interactions against 80K followers, an engagement rate of 0.138%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 57% of 21,185 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 2.6K times each, and 4.15% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.31% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts 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 19 posts sampled, 63% carry an image or video, 26% are part of a thread and 11% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.0K interactions, about 37x its own typical post.
- What is Pádraig Belton's engagement rate on X?
- Pádraig Belton (@PadraigBelton) has an engagement rate of 0.138%, based on the median interactions across 19 original posts from the last 30 days against 80,049 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.138%, Pádraig Belton sits above the 25th percentile of the 212,925 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 @PadraigBelton have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 57% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 @PadraigBelton post?
- Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.53 posts per day across the measured window.