Laura Kuenssberg engagement report
@bbclaurak - 1.3M followers on X
Measured over 27 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 29, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 30 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 27 original posts, its engagement rate beats 18% of 21,185 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 37K times each, and 0.081% 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 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 27 posts sampled, 7% carry an image or video and 74% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.1K interactions, about 114x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #bbclaurak, #budget2026, #payattention.
Measured over 27 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 29, 2026. Recurring tags: #bbclaurak, #budget2026, #payattention.
Compared with accounts its own size
Laura Kuenssberg's engagement rate beats 18% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 5% 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 0.002%, Laura Kuenssberg sits below the 10th percentile of the 213,098 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.147% |
| 75th percentile | 0.698% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 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 11:00 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.
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 | 7% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 74% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 7% 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.
- 74% 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 221 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 26, 2026114x their median
“I’m going to rule it out” Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg in his first major interview as prime minister, Andy Burnham rules out calling an early general election and says “I don't think people want it” #BBCLauraK https://t.co/kIb5RbA0VB https://t.co/yMYt8p2UzU
- Sep 12, 202639x their median
This enormous donation of 36 MILLION is just an absolutely jaw dropping amount of cash coming into our politics - https://t.co/gWLdqkLKig for context, at the last general election - Labour raised about £9m - Tories £1.8m - Lib Dems and Reform both around £1.6m
- Jul 25, 202640x their median
FROM TOMORROW! The first major interview with the new Prime Minister We've been behind the scenes in the last week, at his Labour election victory, the moment he walked into Number 10, and yesterday, in the brand new Number 10 North.. https://t.co/qDPhcoEVcu
- Sep 13, 202632x their median
Dario Amodei finally talks about Jacob Coxon's post: “I agree with Jacob much more than I disagree with him.” “When he left, he said, ‘I think Anthropic is the most responsible player. I think Anthropic is the most aware of these issues.’ "He wasn’t calling out us. He was calling out the dynamic of the industry as a whole moving too fast.”
- Jul 23, 202634x their median
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham pauses early prisoner release scheme due to start in September https://t.co/H20kV7PKMX
- Oct 24, 202628x their median
❗️EXCLUSIVE❗️ Andy Burnham has opened the door to Britain rejoining the EU’s free movement rules, arguing an “honest discussion” about the idea is needed The PM said the nature of immigration has been “different” since Brexit, with more foreigners moving permanently to the UK rather than returning home Burnham noted how his father, Roy, an engineer, took advantage of the EU rules in the 1990s to work in Germany He also said since leaving the bloc Britain has lost access to ‘Eurodac’, an EU database on border crossings “I think you have to have a very factual, quite evidence-based debate about this,” he said Burnham made clear staying out of free movement would **not** be a red line for talks (unlike adopting the Euro or rejoining the Schengen Area) Burnham made the comments to me in one of four interviews conducted during his first 100 days in office. All unpacked in tomorrow’s Sunday Times. It’s big news. Free movement seen as a key reason why the country voted Brexit in 2016. No PM has made the argument for potentially rejoining since… until now. (Important to note: Burnham accepts there were ‘very significant challenges’ too with free movement. Hasn’t reached a firm decision yes or no. He continues to mull over ‘options’ for closer EU ties) KEY BURNHAM QUOTE “Freedom of movement had very significant challenges associated with it and I spoke about them in my previous time in Parliament. But, at the same time, it was a type of immigration that perhaps wasn’t as difficult (as now). “Revolving door migration where people would come and then go back is different. The balance of migration has changed, hasn’t it, since then? I think we’ve just got to have an honest discussion about those things.” Read the full story here: ‘Andy Burnham is open to adopting EU free movement’ https://t.co/rqMMy8hzQA
- Jul 19, 202620x their median
"A lot of people want me to be quiet, and be a good girl and let them have a blank cheque” Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says she will not “tone-policed” when asked about comparing Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson to the Gestapo #BBCLauraK https://t.co/CkTHGctZ4k https://t.co/ZgQoVntO5l
- Jul 20, 202621x their median
"My work is done" Keir Starmer reflects on his achievements during his time as prime minister during his farewell speech in Downing Street Follow live: https://t.co/HZyEmX6klh https://t.co/ZW0HDrMIVx
- Sep 27, 202621x their median
“Nothing is off the table” Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he will look at all the options for how to pay for his proposal for universal social care but that the system will be one where “everyone contributes” #BBCLauraK https://t.co/GuCJEl6gNZ https://t.co/IW5w0gwxV2
- Sep 5, 202621x their median
Farage tells us his family have been ‘begging him’ to give up politics after months of pressure .. 👇🏼 https://t.co/4wmJaZeYUA
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 30 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 27 original posts, its engagement rate beats 18% of 21,185 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 37K times each, and 0.081% 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 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 27 posts sampled, 7% carry an image or video and 74% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.1K interactions, about 114x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #bbclaurak, #budget2026, #payattention.
- What is Laura Kuenssberg's engagement rate on X?
- Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 27 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,297,992 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, Laura Kuenssberg sits below the 10th percentile of the 213,098 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 @bbclaurak have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 18% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size 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 @bbclaurak post?
- Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.17 posts per day across the measured window.