World Athletics engagement report
@WorldAthletics - 518K followers on X
Measured over 54 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 152 interactions against 518K followers, an engagement rate of 0.029%. Measured over 54 original posts, its engagement rate beats 46% of 3,917 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 0.881% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.33% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 54 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.6K interactions, about 17x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #worldathleticsu20, #diamondleague, #worldathleticsultimate.
Measured over 54 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026. Recurring tags: #worldathleticsu20, #diamondleague, #worldathleticsultimate.
Compared with accounts its own size
World Athletics's engagement rate beats 46% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 47% 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 0.029%, World Athletics sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,856 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.081%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 155.6% |
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 21:00 UTC, and Sunday 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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Aug 23, 202617x their median
BACK WITH KEJELCHA 🫨 Former world record-holder Yomif Kejelcha reclaims the half marathon world record* from Jacob Kiplimo, clocking 56:51* in Buenos Aires 💪 That’s 29 seconds off the previous mark 💥 World record flash 🔗 https://t.co/TDldUcY7vx *Pending ratification procedures
- Aug 14, 202613x their median
1️⃣0️⃣ years ago today… 🇿🇦's @WaydeDreamer silenced the world at the 2016 Rio Olympics when he broke the 400m world record in 43.03 🥵 He remains to this day the only man to run a sub 43.10 😤 https://t.co/5t3XAciNGS
- Aug 10, 202612x their median
JAKOB IS BACK 🔥 In his first race since the 2025 #WorldAthleticsChamps, Jakob Ingebrigtsen returns from a injury to win European 5000m gold in 13:15.29 🥇 With this 7th individual European gold, he is now the most successful male athlete in European Championships history 👑 https://t.co/tEaFYDJEzt
- Aug 15, 202610x their median
4TH ALL-TIME ‼️ Andy Díaz Hernández has officially entered world record territory, flying to his first ever jump over 18m with a national record of 18.15m in the triple jump 🫨 He improves his PB by 28cm and lands just 14cm off Jonathan Edwards' world record 😤 https://t.co/xBfFYLQf2O
- Aug 15, 20269.3x their median
Double defence. Double gold. 👑 Nadia Battocletti once again reigns supreme, successfully defending both her 5000m and 10,000m European titles 🏆 https://t.co/Uq3Xs4sA4n
- Aug 20, 20267.9x their median
2️⃣ over 6.16m 🤯 Mondo Duplantis clears a meeting record of 6.21m to win an unforgettable head to head at Athletissima with Emmanouil Karalis 🤩 The two soar over 6.01m and matched each other again at 6.16m, a height only three men in history have ever cleared (Mondo, Manolo and former world record-holder Renaud Lavillenie) 🫨 Full report 🔗 https://t.co/uDFcRtFno2 📸 Marta Gorczyńska for Wanda Diamond League #DiamondLeague
- Aug 14, 20267.3x their median
GIMBO IS BAAACKKK 🤩 After battling injuries, Gianmarco Tamberi returns to the highest spot of the podium 🥇 In a hard fought battle, he clears 2.32m, his highest jump in almost 2️⃣ years to claim his 4th European title, and his third in a row 🔥 https://t.co/Yzwd8q8CiK
- Aug 13, 20266.6x their median
What athletics fans saw during the eclipse 🌒 https://t.co/lR1HIjDlQH
- Aug 9, 20265.3x their median
Wi fasa dan yu 🔥 Team Jamaica 🇯🇲 dominate the women’s 4x100m storming to gold with 42.89 💪 The quartet finish ahead of team Switzerland 🇨🇭(43.36) who replicate their silver from Lima in 2024, and team Belgium 🇧🇪 (43.91) who claim their first ever medal in the disciple. #WorldAthleticsU20
- Aug 21, 20264.5x their median
Gold by Mondo. Stream the Official Ultimate Anthem now 👉 https://t.co/UEDVOu3Ntz #WorldAthleticsUltimate https://t.co/DZSH6dGWJ5
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 152 interactions against 518K followers, an engagement rate of 0.029%. Measured over 54 original posts, its engagement rate beats 46% of 3,917 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 0.881% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.33% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 54 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.6K interactions, about 17x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #worldathleticsu20, #diamondleague, #worldathleticsultimate.
- What is World Athletics's engagement rate on X?
- World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) has an engagement rate of 0.029%, based on the median interactions across 54 original posts from the last 30 days against 518,077 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.029%, World Athletics sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,856 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 @WorldAthletics have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 46% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 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 @WorldAthletics post?
- Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.83 posts per day across the measured window.