British & Irish Lions engagement report
@lionsofficial - 479K followers on X
Measured over 24 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 201 interactions against 479K followers, an engagement rate of 0.042%. Measured over 24 original posts, its engagement rate beats 53% of 3,810 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 24K times each, and 0.839% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.00% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 24 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 588 interactions, about 2.9x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #lions2027, #jaecoopwr.
Measured over 24 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026. Recurring tags: #lions2027, #jaecoopwr.
Compared with accounts its own size
British & Irish Lions's engagement rate beats 53% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,810 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 46% 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 0.042%, British & Irish Lions sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,852 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 159.8% |
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 16:00 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 98K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
Best tweets
- Aug 22, 20262.9x their median
Four times a Lion 🦁🦁🦁🦁 🫡 https://t.co/vL1DV2TdVa
- Aug 14, 20262.0x their median
Started and finished by Keith Earls ✨ https://t.co/RCWPlaRR3d
- Jul 13, 20262.0x their median
18-9 down with 20 minutes to go ⏳ Cue the Lions fightback... https://t.co/aX5I5BHQUy
- Aug 27, 20261.8x their median
Four times a Lion 🦁🦁🦁🦁 🫡 https://t.co/ZRYED3BEy0
- Aug 19, 20261.8x their median
80 mins on the clock ⏳ Four-point game 🇿🇦🦁 Then this ⬇️ https://t.co/jZCaL1Vh6C
- Jul 29, 20261.5x their median
Keith Wood, "raging like a bull!" 🐂 https://t.co/F7y1PJQt6n
- Aug 13, 2026
Pure class from John Bentley... https://t.co/87RXe7hQdJ
- Aug 21, 2026
A Test match with so many iconic moments 😮💨 2001 | Brisbane https://t.co/TZwthDAqFF
- Jul 31, 2026
Dan Biggar and Leigh Halfpenny creating havoc 🚀 https://t.co/neUVWFLGLT
- Jul 14, 2026
"The @BathRugby Bricklayer has done it for the Lions!" A brutal Test match sealed by a moment of magic from Jeremy Guscott 🪄 Brisbane | 2nd Test | 1989 https://t.co/6ltauRmgOl
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 201 interactions against 479K followers, an engagement rate of 0.042%. Measured over 24 original posts, its engagement rate beats 53% of 3,810 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 24K times each, and 0.839% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.00% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 24 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 588 interactions, about 2.9x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #lions2027, #jaecoopwr.
- What is British & Irish Lions's engagement rate on X?
- British & Irish Lions (@lionsofficial) has an engagement rate of 0.042%, based on the median interactions across 24 original posts from the last 30 days against 479,205 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.042%, British & Irish Lions sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,852 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 @lionsofficial have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 53% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,810 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 @lionsofficial post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1 posts per day across the measured window.