RTÉ GAA engagement report
@RTEgaa - 267K followers on X
Measured over 48 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 14 interactions against 267K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 48 original posts, its engagement rate beats 17% of 20,183 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 9.1K times each, and 0.148% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.42% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 48 posts sampled, 13% carry an image or video and 90% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 119 interactions, about 8.5x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #rtegaa, #gaa, #hurling.
Measured over 48 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026. Recurring tags: #rtegaa, #gaa, #hurling.
Compared with accounts its own size
RTÉ GAA's engagement rate beats 17% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 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 9% 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 0.005%, RTÉ GAA sits above the 10th percentile of the 202,467 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.142% |
| 75th percentile | 0.673% |
| 90th percentile | 2.54% |
| 99th percentile | 82.6% |
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 18:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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 | 13% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 90% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 13% 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.
- 90% 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 185 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
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 9, 20268.5x their median
"If we go straight into equality, the €45m which we currently spend preparing county teams goes to €90m. We just simply cannot sustain that." GAA president Jarlath Burns says financial uncertainties led to the stalling of integration https://t.co/tZOhfM0urk
- Sep 9, 20266.4x their median
“It’s just so disappointing to see the lack of leadership at top level” - Cora Staunton discusses the fallout that's followed Dr Mary McAleese's departure as chairperson of the Integration Committee overseeing the amalgamation of the GAA, LGFA and Camogie Association #RTEgaa https://t.co/5TIwexMeSU
- Sep 3, 20264.7x their median
Only two counties in Ireland still employ a knockout system in their senior football championship and the most famous of those throws in this evening. But what are the pros and cons? I ✍️ @McCoyNiall https://t.co/JDDu6BJBJK #RTEgaa
- Aug 27, 20264.4x their median
Gabriel Bannigan steps down as Monaghan manager The Ulster county are on the look out for a new boss. https://t.co/G6SNoBxIYB
- Sep 13, 20264.1x their median
Antrim clubs await fate as violence mars Loughgiel and St John's hurling clash Initially players and mentors on both sides clashed on the pitch, before footage from the ground shows how things escalated further with the violence spilling into the crowd. https://t.co/8qrOEWPcCO
- Sep 11, 20263.9x their median
John Kiely will remain as Limerick senior hurling manager for their All-Ireland SHC title defence next year, with the county board confirming he's staying on "with the option to extend for a further season thereafter". https://t.co/GDhbVaN8HI #RTEgaa
- Sep 7, 20262.9x their median
Jim McGuinness will remain in the Donegal hot seat for 2027 https://t.co/wK5bQiPVV8 #RTEgaa
- Aug 12, 20262.9x their median
Pádraig Horan's @Offaly_GAA career spanned three decades #rtegaa https://t.co/OSXzHV2do7
- Aug 10, 20262.6x their median
'They worked so hard and we're so proud of them' Dr Kay O'Brien, who is on the staff at Temple Street, met her niece Daire O'Brien, Cork camogie player, at the hospital this morning #RTEGAA https://t.co/4CdvMycgX7
- Sep 21, 20262.6x their median
'I'll buy a horse' - Tyrone's Conor McKenna picks up payday after winning AFL goal of the year The Eglish man pointed to his GAA roots at the start of what he hopes will be another incredible week in his career. https://t.co/RODCZYRaoE
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 14 interactions against 267K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 48 original posts, its engagement rate beats 17% of 20,183 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 9.1K times each, and 0.148% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.42% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 48 posts sampled, 13% carry an image or video and 90% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 119 interactions, about 8.5x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #rtegaa, #gaa, #hurling.
- What is RTÉ GAA's engagement rate on X?
- RTÉ GAA (@RTEgaa) has an engagement rate of 0.005%, based on the median interactions across 48 original posts from the last 30 days against 266,762 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.005%, RTÉ GAA sits above the 10th percentile of the 202,467 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 @RTEgaa have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 17% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 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 @RTEgaa post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.63 posts per day across the measured window.