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RTÉ Sport engagement report

@RTEsport - 167K followers on X

Measured over 37 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 23, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0.002%
of 167K followers
Per impression
0.103%
3.9K views on a typical post
Reach
2.32%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
4
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.33/day
active 10% of days
Peak time
21:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 167K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 37 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% 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 3.9K times each, and 0.103% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.32% 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, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 37 posts sampled, 51% carry an image or video and 57% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 259 interactions, about 65x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #rtesport, #ucl, #rtesoccer.

Measured over 37 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 23, 2026. Recurring tags: #rtesport, #ucl, #rtesoccer.

Compared with accounts its own size

RTÉ Sport's engagement rate beats 8% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 6% 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%, RTÉ Sport sits below the 10th percentile of the 202,467 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.142%
p750.673%
p902.54%
p9982.6%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 202,467 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,932 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 percentile0.142%
75th percentile0.673%
90th percentile2.54%
99th percentile82.6%

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 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.

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: 21:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 21:00 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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Wednesday
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 video51% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link57% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 51% 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.
  • 57% 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 170 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% 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

  • Oct 21, 202665x their median

    Kevin Doyle and Richie Sadlier react to Man United's shock 4-1 defeat to Como in the Champions League #RTESport 📺 Watch Bayern Munich v Arsenal live on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player https://t.co/SmuVF5B5nl

    2242311140K viewsView on X
  • Oct 21, 202656x their median

    "The whole thing is a mess" Richie Sadlier weighs in on Man United's struggles #RTESoccer #UCL https://t.co/GOF5HGpejo

    196214116K viewsView on X
  • Oct 20, 202620x their median

    'It's a really exciting prospect' Alex Nankivell says the chance to play for Ireland is an exciting one after signing a new contract with Munster #RTESport https://t.co/GUx94vX4lz

    790005.2K viewsView on X
  • Sep 18, 202618x their median

    FAI chief executive David Courell tells @corktod that UEFA must 'consider the sentiment of 54 other nations' in face of association's lobbying for Israel's removal from international football https://t.co/dIFJ8fqV0A

    14247826K viewsView on X
  • Sep 18, 202618x their median

    FAI Chief Executive David Courell has said that he recognises the strength of feeling among the Irish public about the upcoming Nations League games with Israel, but that he feels the lack of action from UEFA leaves the organisation in a 'really difficult position'. https://t.co/MtE1MkMzhX

    1654737.8K viewsView on X
  • Sep 19, 202615x their median

    It's been a remarkable year for Irish sport, but Mark English's European Athletics Championships gold in the men's 800m will be hard to top when they're stitching together the 2026 edition of Reeling In The Years. He spoke to @gregallenRTE for @SatSportRTE https://t.co/39PYSPEQi7 #RTESport

    5442116K viewsView on X
  • Sep 20, 202614x their median

    "We are thankful for everything Republic of Ireland did for Kosovo" Ex-Kosovo national team manager Albert Bunjaki on what #COYBIG supporters can expect in Pristina ahead of Thursday's Nations League group opener 📺 Full interview: https://t.co/vDIQvzpNbs https://t.co/xKulaHMYvm

    4850210K viewsView on X
  • Sep 18, 202613x their median

    Dawson Devoy sparks wild Dalymount scenes as Bohemians stay in the title hunt https://t.co/Q8xS59mcFQ

    500005.2K viewsView on X
  • Sep 18, 202610x their median

    'I'm not here to deny the strength of sentiment that exists there. I think we can all feel it and we can all appreciate it and, you know, it's tangible' FAI chief executive David Courell on the public mood surrounding Israel games https://t.co/4Qm9or6lzx

    623125.9K viewsView on X
  • Sep 18, 20269.8x their median

    Late Sean Boyd brace completes Shelbourne comeback away to Dundalk https://t.co/ooHBlEX0y8

    381005.2K 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.

Recurring topics

#rtesport#ucl#rtesoccer#rtesoccerpodcast#snooker

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 4 interactions against 167K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 37 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% 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 3.9K times each, and 0.103% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.32% 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, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 37 posts sampled, 51% carry an image or video and 57% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 259 interactions, about 65x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #rtesport, #ucl, #rtesoccer.

What is RTÉ Sport's engagement rate on X?
RTÉ Sport (@RTEsport) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 37 original posts from the last 30 days against 166,902 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.002%, RTÉ Sport sits below 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 @RTEsport have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 8% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 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 @RTEsport post?
Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.

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