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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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.
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 | 75% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 15% 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
- 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.
- Sep 21, 202632x their median
The silence from Chumbawamba on the Uyghur situation is frankly intolerable.
- 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.
- Sep 18, 202623x their median
Das Wochenende kommt! Heut ist Freitag! https://t.co/3hXhRTwRZr
- Sep 1, 202618x their median
This dog works with his human every day https://t.co/4eB85413f8
- Sep 4, 202615x their median
Another music industry bully gets owned by @JamesBlunt https://t.co/kY41qcBN57
- Sep 17, 202614x their median
https://t.co/GTdWFQBoDG
- Sep 19, 20269.9x their median
Happy 74th birthday to Nile Rodgers! https://t.co/7AY5uBGe3S
- 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
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 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.