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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty engagement report

@RFERL - 215K followers on X

Measured over 94 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 5, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.009%
of 215K followers
Per impression
0.591%
3.2K views on a typical post
Reach
1.50%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
19
interactions (median)
Saved
0.031%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.73/day
active 57% of days
Peak time
14:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 19 interactions against 215K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 94 original posts, its engagement rate beats 22% of 20,444 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 3.2K times each, and 0.591% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.49% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 94 posts sampled, 32% carry an image or video, 6% are part of a thread and 76% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 146 interactions, about 7.7x its own typical post.

Measured over 94 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 5, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's engagement rate beats 22% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 30% 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 0.009%, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,956 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

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p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,956 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 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 percentile0.678%
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 14:00 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: 14:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 14:00 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 video32% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link76% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 32% 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.
  • 76% 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 295 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

  • Sep 11, 20267.7x their median

    (WARNING: VIEWERS MAY FIND THE CONTENT OF THIS VIDEO DISTURBING) Ukraine’s foreign minister is calling on allies to urgently provide more air defense systems after a Russian drone strike on a shopping district in the eastern city of Pavlohrad killed at least five people and injured dozens. Andriy Sybiha said the September 10 attack, carried out in broad daylight, was part of a deliberate campaign to terrorize civilians. RFE/RL correspondent Roman Pahulych arrived at the scene as emergency crews treated the wounded and battled fires. Pavlohrad is a key logistics hub linking central Ukraine with frontline areas in the east.

    8651278.0K viewsView on X
  • Oct 3, 20267.5x their median

    "The hunger has reached such a scale that, in the best-case scenario, a person can eat a clear soup and a few spoons of some kind of porridge in a day," a Ukrainian volunteer said. "If they have any left." By @radiosvoboda , @CurrentTimeTv https://t.co/Dwi7S0X8aK

    83523410.0K viewsView on X
  • Oct 3, 20264.3x their median

    Belgrade Showcases Chinese Lethal Tech Armed with rockets and storming target buildings, Chinese "robot dogs" have made their debut in Serbian military drills, signaling the expansion of defense and industrial ties between Belgrade and Beijing right on Europe’s doorstep. By @RSE_Balkan

    53261210K viewsView on X
  • Sep 8, 20263.8x their median

    Volunteers from Ukraine's UAnimals charity dodge Russian drones to rescue people's pets in cities under fire in the Donetsk region. They've saved hundreds of animals, from beloved dogs and cats to jittery goats and raccoons, delivering them to new homes in safer areas far from the front lines. But the work is more challenging than ever. By @CurrentTimeTv

    5317127.3K viewsView on X
  • Oct 3, 20263.6x their median

    A bipartisan, bicameral group of US lawmakers has introduced the SRBIJA Act, proposing tougher conditions on US assistance to Serbia, possible sanctions over corruption and human-rights abuses, and greater scrutiny of Russian, Chinese and Iranian influence. https://t.co/nPAPCdDQJa

    4219537.4K viewsView on X
  • Oct 3, 20263.6x their median

    Crossing only 6 kilometers took three and a half hours. Andriy Kuzakov from @CurrentTimeTv joined Ukrainian soldiers on the increasingly dangerous road toward Druzhkivka, dodging Russian drones and watching for mines. Along the way, they passed the body of a civilian that emergency services could not safely recover. "Everything looks pretty apocalyptic."

    4722006.4K viewsView on X
  • Dec 3, 20253.4x their median

    Russia is trying to build a parallel financial system to evade Western sanctions and be able to buy dual-use technologies, experts say. That’s why Russia, with Kyrgyzstan’s help, has launched its own cryptocurrency. 🧵1/3 By @Mike_Eckel and @Azattyk_Radiosu https://t.co/3KCbJSDeUt

    3720268.2K viewsView on X
  • Sep 7, 20263.3x their median

    After US envoys met with Putin and Zelenskyy separately, the central question remains unanswered: Has Moscow changed its position enough to make a settlement possible? Former US ambassadors told @ralexdc that for now, the answer appears to be no. https://t.co/MD2OPtxOfz

    33161035.0K viewsView on X
  • Sep 10, 20262.9x their median

    Iranians studying in Russia often work on projects with military applications, an analysis by Systema shows -- and upon return, some join entities linked to Iran’s armed forces. These ties are growing. https://t.co/MYbXAunnjf

    2620548.8K viewsView on X
  • Sep 10, 20262.9x their median

    An analysis by RFE/RL’s Russian investigative unit, Systema, shows that Moscow and Tehran have continued to cooperate in areas of particular relevance to Iran’s defense industry -- now including areas such electronic warfare, GPS spoofing to mislead navigation systems, and artificial intelligence for drones. https://t.co/iAERo5YEmt

    2724135.2K 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 19 interactions against 215K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 94 original posts, its engagement rate beats 22% of 20,444 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 3.2K times each, and 0.591% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.49% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 94 posts sampled, 32% carry an image or video, 6% are part of a thread and 76% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 146 interactions, about 7.7x its own typical post.

What is Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's engagement rate on X?
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (@RFERL) has an engagement rate of 0.009%, based on the median interactions across 94 original posts from the last 30 days against 215,372 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.009%, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,956 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 @RFERL have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 22% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @RFERL post?
Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.73 posts per day across the measured window.

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