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World Rugby engagement report

@WorldRugby - 577K followers on X

Measured over 14 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 11, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.013%
of 577K followers
Per impression
0.454%
16K views on a typical post
Reach
2.80%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
74
interactions (median)
Saved
0.015%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.63/day
active 27% of days
Peak time
09:00 UTC
Saturday

A typical post picks up 74 interactions against 577K followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 14 original posts, its engagement rate beats 37% 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 16K times each, and 0.454% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.81% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.63 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 14 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.4K interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #pacificnationscup, #asahipotm, #wxv.

Measured over 14 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 11, 2026. Recurring tags: #pacificnationscup, #asahipotm, #wxv.

Compared with accounts its own size

World Rugby's engagement rate beats 37% 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 29% 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 0.013%, World Rugby sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,152 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,152 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 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 09:00 UTC, and Saturday 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: 09:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 09:00 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: Saturday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Saturday
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 link0% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 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.
  • 0% 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 142 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

  • Aug 22, 202619x their median

    An elite group gains a new member πŸ’― https://t.co/Ch9sISritt

    1.2K11014630K viewsView on X
  • May 17, 202613x their median

    World Rugby is deeply saddened by the passing of Scotland great Scott Hastings. One of the defining players of his generation, Hastings represented Scotland across 65 test matches and played a pivotal role in the nation’s historic 1990 Grand Slam triumph. A British & Irish Lion and an iconic figure in the game, he was respected throughout world rugby for his leadership, passion and unwavering commitment on the field. Following his playing career, Hastings remained a valued voice within the sport, continuing to contribute to rugby through broadcasting and advocacy with the same authenticity and love for the game that defined his career. Our thoughts are with his family, friends, former teammates and the entire Scottish rugby community at this incredibly difficult time. Rest in peace, Scott Hastings.

    1.3K726119K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 202618x their median

    A new centurion in the green and gold πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ Congrats, Damian, on your 100th @Springboks cap! https://t.co/EXImTsgzkF

    1.1K1695522K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 202616x their median

    The lineups you've been waiting for πŸ‘€ #RugbysGreatestRivalry πŸ“– https://t.co/EQc601X1t3

    922207261644K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 202613x their median

    The teams are set ahead of the final weekend of #RugbysGreatestRivalry action πŸ’ͺ https://t.co/L9X5s9JZum

    766153121427K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 202610x their median

    The squads are set ahead of another huge weekend of #RugbysGreatestRivalry action πŸ’ͺ Watch the full test LIVE in the USA on the World Rugby YouTube channel πŸ–₯️ https://t.co/Y9xaw4JJnp

    588136191528K viewsView on X
  • Sep 19, 20269.8x their median

    Japan win the 2026 Asahi Super Dry Pacific Nations Cup! πŸ† #PacificNationsCup https://t.co/ktbVNqpneh

    5921235821K viewsView on X
  • Mar 14, 2026

    Allez les Bleus πŸ‡«πŸ‡· France go back-to-back and win the 2026 #GuinnessM6N @FranceRugby https://t.co/dyn1DRvXoL

    597829213K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20269.1x their median

    "One of the greatest No. 8s ever..." Introducing Zinzan Brooke, Hall of Fame Inductee #177 πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ #WorldRugbyHOF | @AllBlacks https://t.co/PLf7SsWAxF

    5608024825K viewsView on X
  • Mar 31, 2026

    We cannot wait πŸ”₯ The Nations Cup comes this July & November! #NationsCup https://t.co/Vgy2Ln0qP1

    474696918K 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

#pacificnationscup#asahipotm#wxv#asahisupertries#rugbysgreatestrivalry

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 74 interactions against 577K followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 14 original posts, its engagement rate beats 37% 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 16K times each, and 0.454% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.81% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.63 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 14 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.4K interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #pacificnationscup, #asahipotm, #wxv.

What is World Rugby's engagement rate on X?
World Rugby (@WorldRugby) has an engagement rate of 0.013%, based on the median interactions across 14 original posts from the last 30 days against 577,100 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.013%, World Rugby sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,152 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 @WorldRugby have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 37% 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 @WorldRugby post?
Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.63 posts per day across the measured window.

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