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The Royal Family engagement report

@RoyalFamily - 5.4M followers on X

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.066%
of 5.4M followers
Per impression
1.96%
181K views on a typical post
Reach
3.34%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
3.6K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.029%
52 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.87/day
active 53% of days
Peak time
09:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 3.6K interactions against 5.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.066%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 78% of 3,791 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 181K times each, and 1.96% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.34% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.87 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 9% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 47K interactions, about 13x its own typical post.

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

The Royal Family's engagement rate beats 78% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 76% 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 0.066%, The Royal Family sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.433%
p902.10%
p99160.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,654 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,977 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.433%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.5%

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 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: 09:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 09:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
02:00 UTC-3%50K
03:00 UTC-4%53K
04:00 UTC-6%43K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%48K
07:00 UTC-5%52K
08:00 UTC-4%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
10:00 UTC-2%72K
11:00 UTC-3%78K
12:00 UTC-2%86K
13:00 UTC-2%94K
14:00 UTC-4%97K
15:00 UTC-2%101K
16:00 UTC-3%98K
17:00 UTC-2%91K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-1%80K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-1%57K
23:00 UTC-2%52K
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 5%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%231K
Monday0%288K
Tuesday-2%278K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%245K
Friday-3%253K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Jul 22, 202613x their median

    Happy 13th Birthday, George! 🎉 https://t.co/HjLZO3hl5Q

    42K2.8K1.6K3671.0M viewsView on X
  • Jul 15, 20269.7x their median

    Commiserations to Harry and the team. While you Three Lions may be licking your wounds today, you remain the pride of a nation – and will rise again. https://t.co/LQ4feLSJ2V

    31K2.2K897168560K viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 20265.2x their median

    🎉🍼 Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie and Mr Jack Brooksbank are delighted to announce the safe arrival of their daughter, born on Monday, 3rd August 2026, at 6.20pm, at a hospital in Lisbon, Portugal. The baby was born weighing 6 pounds 9 ounces. Their Majesties The King and Queen and other members of The Royal Family were delighted to be informed of the news. 📸 Jack Brooksbank

    17K8555431111.1M viewsView on X
  • Jul 4, 20265.0x their median

    🇺🇸 A message from His Majesty The King to President Trump and the American people, as they mark 250 years of the United States Declaration of Independence. To read His Majesty’s message in full, visit https://t.co/fKZVORz7rk. https://t.co/FOoWyRUBfS

    15K2.2K774194494K viewsView on X
  • Jul 4, 20264.1x their median

    Happy 2️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ to the United States! 🇺🇸✨ Today, America celebrates their 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence - it was great to celebrate this milestone with you all earlier in the year! In April, Their Majesties travelled to Washington DC, New York and Virginia on a State Visit to the United States in recognition of the occasion.

    13K1.4K42954287K viewsView on X
  • Jul 14, 20263.8x their median

    During a visit to the Isle of Man, The King sat down with James Fenton, a 104-year-old Burma Star veteran. James is one of the last surviving veterans of the Burma Campaign. His Majesty previously met him at commemorations for the 80th anniversary of VJ Day in 2025. https://t.co/onshpF4rT4

    12K1.1K27357492K viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 20262.7x their median

    Wishing a Happy Birthday to The Princess Royal! 🎂 https://t.co/hl2ftzecx6

    8.6K60133767207K viewsView on X
  • Jul 20, 20262.7x their median

    His Majesty received in Audience the Rt. Hon. Andrew Burnham MP and requested him to form a new Administration.  The Rt. Hon Andrew Burnham MP accepted The King's offer and kissed hands upon his appointment as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury. https://t.co/QGXjt80Tbq

    7.8K1.2K486138441K viewsView on X
  • Jul 17, 20262.5x their median

    Happy Birthday to The Queen! 🎊   Her Majesty has marked her birthday with a renewed commitment to supporting children’s literacy, with the announcement that every Year 6 and P6 child across the UK will be gifted a special edition of the bestselling book ‘Impossible Creatures’ by award-winning author Katherine Rundell, this Christmas.   📚 Led by the National Literacy Trust, of which The Queen is Patron, the programme celebrates the National Year of Reading 2026. 📷 @ChrisJack_Getty

    7.3K765680161650K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20262.4x their median

    A message from The King to all those affected by the tragedy on the Nepal-China border. https://t.co/yqvhAD59YL

    7.6K87723643192K 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 3.6K interactions against 5.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.066%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 78% of 3,791 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 181K times each, and 1.96% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.34% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.87 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 9% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 47K interactions, about 13x its own typical post.

What is The Royal Family's engagement rate on X?
The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) has an engagement rate of 0.066%, based on the median interactions across 23 original posts from the last 30 days against 5,435,184 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.066%, The Royal Family sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,654 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 @RoyalFamily have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 78% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 accounts), which puts it in the top 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 @RoyalFamily post?
Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.87 posts per day across the measured window.

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