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The Who engagement report

@TheWho - 589K followers on X

Measured over 14 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 9, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.098%
of 589K followers
Per impression
3.29%
17K views on a typical post
Reach
2.97%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
576
interactions (median)
Saved
0.089%
16 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.5/day
active 47% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 576 interactions against 589K followers, an engagement rate of 0.098%. Measured over 14 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% 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 17K times each, and 3.29% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.97% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.5 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 14 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 29% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.9K interactions, about 3.3x its own typical post.

Measured over 14 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 9, 2026. Recurring tag: #thewhobynumbers.

Compared with accounts its own size

The Who's engagement rate beats 70% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 81% 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 0.098%, The Who sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,374 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,374 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,897 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 15:00 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: 15:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 15:00 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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link29% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 100% 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.
  • 29% 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 193 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

  • Jul 13, 20263.3x their median

    On This Day in 1985, The Who perform a four track set at Wembley Stadium for Live Aid which was broadcast to an estimated 1.9 billion people across the world. https://t.co/9tPEzVXIHP

    1.7K211211158K viewsView on X
  • Jun 25, 20263.2x their median

    'Won't Get Fooled Again' celebrates 55 years since its release as a single in the UK! The song spent 12 weeks in the official charts, performed here on Top Of The Pops. https://t.co/7OTdeRtl3G

    1.5K273221543K viewsView on X
  • Jul 14, 20263.1x their median

    'Who Are You' was released as a single in the UK on this day in 1978. Listen Now on 'Who's On Repeat, Who Knew?': https://t.co/RIlMoDolGE https://t.co/D6J1Nk0ymd

    1.5K24217941K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20263.1x their median

    August 1978, The Who released their eighth studio album 'Who Are You'. Watch the band rehearsing the title track in April 1979 with new drummer Kenney Jones for the November/December 1979 US Tour https://t.co/adWi469ihK

    1.5K217211240K viewsView on X
  • May 13, 20261.9x their median

    '5:15' on Top Of The Pops, 1973 https://t.co/gdhB5tbxiD

    1.3K22332950K viewsView on X
  • Jul 16, 20262.5x their median

    Six months after The Who release their debut album, 'The Kids Are Alright' is released as a single in the US July 1966. The promo video for the song filmed in Hyde Park, London. https://t.co/8Bv4JrO76X

    1.2K202171048K viewsView on X
  • May 11, 20261.7x their median

    The Who's second studio album 'A Quick One' turns 60 this year, what memories do you have with this record? https://t.co/VRdoRZXVPT

    1.2K182371253K viewsView on X
  • May 19, 20261.8x their median

    57 years of Tommy, released 19th May 1969! https://t.co/Ij5MBnYYeU

    1.1K252251925K viewsView on X
  • Apr 24, 20261.5x their median

    'Baba O'Riley' live at Shepperton Studios, all angles captured by a four camera setup. https://t.co/Kh6EKgln0X

    1.1K18713628K viewsView on X
  • Aug 3, 20262.1x their median

    55 Years of Who's Next! Released August 1971, the album peaked at the number one spot on the UK charts and went on to become triple platinum in the US. 'Won't Get Fooled Again' was the lead single from the album, here's the band performing the track through it's 55 year history!

    1.0K19119624K 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

#thewhobynumbers

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 576 interactions against 589K followers, an engagement rate of 0.098%. Measured over 14 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% 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 17K times each, and 3.29% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.97% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.5 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 14 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 29% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.9K interactions, about 3.3x its own typical post.

What is The Who's engagement rate on X?
The Who (@TheWho) has an engagement rate of 0.098%, based on the median interactions across 14 original posts from the last 30 days against 588,977 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.098%, The Who sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,374 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 @TheWho have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 70% 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 @TheWho post?
Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.5 posts per day across the measured window.

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