Politics UK engagement report
@PolitlcsUK - 503K followers on X
Measured over 34 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 3.6K interactions against 503K followers, an engagement rate of 0.722%. Measured over 34 original posts, its engagement rate beats 93% of 3,899 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 416K times each, and 0.873% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 82.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 34 posts sampled, 41% carry an image or video and 56% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 16K interactions, about 4.4x its own typical post.
Measured over 34 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Politics UK's engagement rate beats 93% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 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 0.722%, Politics UK sits above the 75th percentile of the 37,856 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the top 25% band, which runs 0.439% to 2.10%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 155.6% |
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 21:00 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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Aug 21, 20264.4x their median
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham is planning a bid for the UK to host the World Cup in 2038 or 2042 [@theipaper]
- Aug 25, 20263.2x their median
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has announced Sainsbury's will offer 10,000 work placements from October to help tackle youth unemployment
- Aug 21, 20262.8x their median
🚨 NEW: The criminal investigation into Peter Mandelson is at risk of collapse because the US won't share the unredacted Epstein files [@Telegraph]
- Aug 25, 20262.4x their median
🚨 NEW: Great British Railways will ban the "ironing-board" seats across all Thameslink trains from next year https://t.co/F7b6DosGbH
- Aug 21, 20262.2x their median
🚨 NEW: No 10 North has a cardboard cutout of Larry the Cat [@danbloom1] https://t.co/jHurY6ug1j
- Aug 27, 20262.0x their median
🚨 NEW: Russia has threatened to attack British military sites across the world after British missiles were used by Ukraine
- Aug 25, 20261.7x their median
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham is set to announce "robust" sanctions targeting Israeli settlements in the West Bank [@thetimes]
- Aug 22, 20261.6x their median
🚨 WATCH: Andy Burnham sends a message to a couple getting married in the same building as No 10 North after he was invited to their wedding https://t.co/eH3MmnZGdo
- Aug 27, 20261.6x their median
🚨 BREAKING: Manchester Airport Group says it has been subject to a cyber attack which breached customer data Free Wifi sign up data from Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands Airport has been stolen
- Aug 26, 20261.5x their median
🚨 NEW: Reform UK has announced people forced to wait over 30 minutes on the phone to HMRC will receive £30 in tax credit at the end of the tax year
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 3.6K interactions against 503K followers, an engagement rate of 0.722%. Measured over 34 original posts, its engagement rate beats 93% of 3,899 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 416K times each, and 0.873% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 82.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 34 posts sampled, 41% carry an image or video and 56% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 16K interactions, about 4.4x its own typical post.
- What is Politics UK's engagement rate on X?
- Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) has an engagement rate of 0.722%, based on the median interactions across 34 original posts from the last 30 days against 503,244 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.722%, Politics UK sits above the 75th percentile of the 37,856 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 @PolitlcsUK have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 93% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 accounts), which puts it in the top 10% 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 @PolitlcsUK post?
- Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.13 posts per day across the measured window.