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Right Said Fred engagement report

@TheFreds - 272K followers on X

Measured over 55 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 22, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.167%
of 272K followers
Per impression
3.55%
13K views on a typical post
Reach
4.71%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
453
interactions (median)
Saved
0.063%
8 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
4.63/day
active 70% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 453 interactions against 272K followers, an engagement rate of 0.167%. Measured over 55 original posts, its engagement rate beats 68% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 13K times each, and 3.55% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.70% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 55 posts sampled, 75% carry an image or video and 15% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 101K interactions, about 224x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #drummers, #drums, #fredhead.

Measured over 55 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 22, 2026. Recurring tags: #drummers, #drums, #fredhead.

Compared with accounts its own size

Right Said Fred's engagement rate beats 68% 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 79% 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 0.167%, Right Said Fred sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,475 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.678%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,475 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,893 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 16:00 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.

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: 16:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 16:00 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video75% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link15% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 75% 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.
  • 15% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 242 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

  • Aug 31, 2026224x their median

    That humiliation will never be forgotten. https://t.co/zdXc3Do2i8

    96K4.2K1.3K42913M viewsView on X
  • Sep 2, 202665x their median

    This happened four nights ago in a Tennessee shelter. The puppy is Rocky, a seven-month-old Pit Bull seized from a terrible situation last week. Covered in scars and healing wounds. Absolutely traumatized. Won't eat. Won't move from the corner. Just shakes constantly and flinches at every sound. The older dog is Bailey, a thirteen-year-old Labrador who's been at shelter for six years. Never adopted because he's "too old" and has expensive medical needs. Staff put them together because the facility was at capacity. Security footage from 11:20 PM shows Bailey waking up, watching Rocky trembling in the corner, then slowly standing. Bailey has severe arthritis. Moving is painful. But he walked carefully across the kennel. Laid down beside Rocky. Wrapped his body around him protectively. By morning, Rocky had stopped shaking. Was pressed against Bailey's side. Actually sleeping peacefully for the first time since arriving. Shelter director Maria told: "Bailey has done this with nineteen scared, traumatized dogs over six years. He's never been adopted because he's senior, moves slowly, and needs daily medication. But he's comforted nineteen broken souls just by lying beside them and showing them what gentle feels like." Sometimes the one nobody adopts carries the greatest gift-teaching the terrified what safety looks like.

    25K3.4K460140395K viewsView on X
  • Sep 21, 202632x their median

    The silence from Chumbawamba on the Uyghur situation is frankly intolerable.

    13K90113644307K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 202631x their median

    They told Édith Piaf she was finished. So she sang “I regret nothing.” and gave a performance that not only was iconic but would go on to live in history forever. In December 1960 she was exhausted, gravely ill, and under doctors’ orders to stay off the stage. The Olympia was facing bankruptcy. Most people thought her career was already over. She walked out anyway. A few weeks earlier Charles Dumont and Michel Vaucaire had brought her a new song: Non, je ne regrette rien. She heard it once and claimed it as her own no sentiment, no softness, only a driving march and absolute moral force. Her posture was famously minimal she stood standing motionless in her simple black dress, letting her hands and voice carry the entire drama. She did not perform the song. She inhabited it. That night she saved a theatre and turned a personal reckoning with loss into one of the century’s great statements of endurance. Frail in body, inexhaustible in spirit, she remains one of the most iconic singers the 20th century ever produced. The Little Sparrow did not fly away. She simply refused to land.

    12K2.2K159125405K viewsView on X
  • Sep 18, 202623x their median

    Das Wochenende kommt! Heut ist Freitag! https://t.co/3hXhRTwRZr

    8.3K1.6K109204599K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 202618x their median

    This dog works with his human every day https://t.co/4eB85413f8

    7.3K7789765138K viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 202615x their median

    Another music industry bully gets owned by @JamesBlunt https://t.co/kY41qcBN57

    6.2K47226352790K viewsView on X
  • Sep 17, 202614x their median

    https://t.co/GTdWFQBoDG

    4.6K1.5K666635K viewsView on X
  • Sep 19, 20269.9x their median

    Happy 74th birthday to Nile Rodgers! https://t.co/7AY5uBGe3S

    3.6K7086769101K viewsView on X
  • Sep 22, 20269.8x their median

    My dear dad at the piano doing what he did so well. I lost him on this day 2018.But I will always celebrate his life through listening and playing his music today and every day. https://t.co/f9Uxz0SJ5c

    4.1K1422371069K 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

#drummers#drums#fredhead#heavensent#imtoosexy

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 453 interactions against 272K followers, an engagement rate of 0.167%. Measured over 55 original posts, its engagement rate beats 68% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 13K times each, and 3.55% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.70% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 55 posts sampled, 75% carry an image or video and 15% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 101K interactions, about 224x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #drummers, #drums, #fredhead.

What is Right Said Fred's engagement rate on X?
Right Said Fred (@TheFreds) has an engagement rate of 0.167%, based on the median interactions across 55 original posts from the last 30 days against 271,557 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.167%, Right Said Fred sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,475 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 @TheFreds have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 68% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @TheFreds post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.63 posts per day across the measured window.

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