Ulster Rugby engagement report
@UlsterRugby - 150K followers on X
Measured over 58 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 24 interactions against 150K followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 58 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 15,823 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 4.3K times each, and 0.575% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.85% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 58 posts sampled, 91% carry an image or video and 47% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.5K interactions, about 61x its own typical post.
Measured over 58 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026. Recurring tag: #alwayswithus.
Compared with accounts its own size
Ulster Rugby's engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,823 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 30% 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 0.016%, Ulster Rugby sits above the 10th percentile of the 158,375 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.022%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.003% |
| 25th percentile | 0.022% |
| 50th percentile | 0.128% |
| 75th percentile | 0.605% |
| 90th percentile | 2.32% |
| 99th percentile | 82.9% |
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 19:00 UTC, and Friday 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 | 91% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 47% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 91% 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.
- 47% 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 133 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
- Sep 15, 202661x their median
Fourteen years on, we remember Nevin Spence, his father Noel, and his brother Graham. Remembered today, and always. Rest in peace, Nevin, Noel and Graham. #AlwaysWithUs β€οΈ https://t.co/CXPRNbdOn5
- Sep 22, 20269.6x their median
A huge congratulations to @RoryBest2, who completed his Miles to Mayo challenge at the weekend π The final chapter in a trilogy of fundraising walks for Cancer Fund for Children - raising vital funds to support children and young people impacted by cancer. More than Β£1.4 million raised across the three challenges π€ A huge achievement for an incredibly important cause!
- Sep 11, 20264.7x their median
FT at Affidea Stadium and a great workout to finish our pre-season π₯ https://t.co/rs9LDP51Ar
- Sep 17, 20263.8x their median
The 26/27 squad. πΈ https://t.co/HiTTDJrmQX
- Sep 11, 20263.8x their median
Inspired by an iconic landmark β«οΈ Weβre proud to unveil our new 26/27 Third Kit, inspired by one of the most iconic landscapes on the island of Ireland β the Giantβs Causeway π https://t.co/7KtV6pvXEZ
- Sep 11, 20263.3x their median
Our @bankofireland POTM π https://t.co/tXZF0fYAzh
- Sep 24, 20263.1x their median
Ready for RD1 π Here's how we line up tomorrow night against @EdinburghRugby Get your tickets ποΈ https://t.co/r3hjhYz7mD https://t.co/hLz7Hu29jk
- Sep 23, 20262.3x their median
What a player eats in pre-season π₯π Stephanie Gleadhill, our Lead Performance Nutritionist, takes us through a typical day of nutrition for an Ulster player. π₯ Watch the full video here https://t.co/muABoE0hYy https://t.co/3LFvUP9tpI
- Sep 11, 20262.2x their median
Set in Stone. Made for More. β«οΈ Our 26/27 Third Kit. https://t.co/upKJALrPb1
- Sep 11, 20262.2x their median
The man himself on comms tonight π€ Watch our game live on streaming platform https://t.co/g5OtJFWc1x Kick off 7.45pm https://t.co/pxhqDwHUCu
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 24 interactions against 150K followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 58 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 15,823 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 4.3K times each, and 0.575% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.85% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 58 posts sampled, 91% carry an image or video and 47% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.5K interactions, about 61x its own typical post.
- What is Ulster Rugby's engagement rate on X?
- Ulster Rugby (@UlsterRugby) has an engagement rate of 0.016%, based on the median interactions across 58 original posts from the last 30 days against 149,620 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.016%, Ulster Rugby sits above the 10th percentile of the 158,375 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 @UlsterRugby have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,823 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 @UlsterRugby post?
- Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.97 posts per day across the measured window.