Back to @bbcnickrobinson's profile

Nick Robinson engagement report

@bbcnickrobinson - 987K followers on X

Measured over 3 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 10, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.002%
of 987K followers
Per impression
0.058%
38K views on a typical post
Reach
3.88%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
22
interactions (median)
Saved
0.01%
4 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.6/day
active 27% of days
Peak time
08:00 UTC
Thursday

Early reading. We have captured 3 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.

A typical post picks up 22 interactions against 987K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Posts are seen about 38K times each, and 0.058% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.88% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.6 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 3 posts sampled, 67% carry an image or video, 67% are part of a thread and 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 79x its own typical post. Only 3 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

Measured over 3 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 10, 2026.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.002%, Nick Robinson sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,798 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 204,798 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,879 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 08:00 UTC, and Thursday 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: 08:00 UTC.
0003060912151821
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 08:00 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video67% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link67% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 67% 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.
  • 67% 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 239 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 7, 202679x their median

    I will make a statement on my future in public life at 2pm.

    11K1.3K5.3K2.1K8.6M viewsView on X
  • Jun 22, 202614x their median

    In an all my years covering politics I have never met anyone so lacking in interest in the skills a leader needs - the ability to tell a story; to listen to colleagues; to woo, persuade & chivvy. Keir Starmer isn’t just uninterested in these requirements of the job. He is dismissive & contemptuous of them. @AndrewMarr9 sums this up in the @NewStatesman rather more memorably than I could …

    2.3K311647128882K viewsView on X
  • Jul 11, 2026150x their median

    Dermot Murnaghan, a presenter on TV news shows for decades, dies aged 68 https://t.co/8QKL9sfIpO

    2.4K4532881651.0M viewsView on X
  • Aug 6, 202665x their median

    "Do you think the monarch of this country is a white Briton?" @bbcnickrobinson asks Restore Britain's Rupert Lowe about a report he quotes, that defines a Briton as someone with two white British-born parents. https://t.co/tMPvhrgsMH

    799159355110939K viewsView on X
  • Jul 8, 20265.7x their median

    All the biggest interviews on @BBCr4today … https://t.co/FnZKvK8wvC

    1.2K9653638K viewsView on X
  • Jul 20, 202650x their median

    Ed brought a ferocious intellect, boundless curiosity and a good deal of charm to all he did. He dealt with his cancer with resolution but without self pity. He’ll be badly missed https://t.co/V3ax930GA8

    1.0K6615336K viewsView on X
  • Jul 20, 202641x their median

    John Healey - the first senior figure to walk through the doors of Burnham’s Number 10 - recently met with Andy Burnham to discuss using defence bonds to pay for increased defence spending which he argued could be used to re-industrialise Britain. He’s an ex Treasury minister under Gordon Brown. Join the dots & he could be Chancellor. Pure guesswork which could be proved wrong very quickly but very interesting that he’s first through that door

    786524316346K viewsView on X
  • Jul 7, 20263.5x their median

    “Am I angry? I’ve never been angrier in my life” @Nigel_Farage presents himself & his party as the victim of an establishment plot claiming that it is “like living in a Communist country”. “Enough is enough” he says declaring that he will resign as an MP and trigger a by-election

    3215844438136K viewsView on X
  • Sep 2, 202638x their median

    So farewell then @amolrajan. It’s been a pleasure and an honour to present @BBCr4today alongside you. This morning’s 8.10 was a reminder of what you’ve brought to the programme - intelligence, curiosity, energy, enthusiasm & optimism. Good luck ! https://t.co/HsiEjs3jUf

    7354956450K viewsView on X
  • Jul 17, 202637x their median

    "Why are they not allowed to [call Nigel Farage racist] but you are allowed to call someone a traitor?" @bbcnickrobinson presses Reform UK MP Robert Jenrick on his use of the word traitor for the attorney general, and his claim that calling Nigel Farage racist is harmful. https://t.co/eZu7wjTKto

    623110565339K 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.

Buy or sell Twitter (X) accounts - escrow-protected

PlayerSells is an escrow marketplace for Twitter (X) accounts. Every deal is protected, with no middleman risk.

Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 22 interactions against 987K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Posts are seen about 38K times each, and 0.058% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.88% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.6 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 3 posts sampled, 67% carry an image or video, 67% are part of a thread and 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 79x its own typical post. Only 3 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

What is Nick Robinson's engagement rate on X?
Nick Robinson (@bbcnickrobinson) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 3 original posts from the last 30 days against 986,546 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.002%, Nick Robinson sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,798 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 @bbcnickrobinson have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @bbcnickrobinson post?
Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.6 posts per day across the measured window.

Keep going