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Red Arrows engagement report

@rafredarrows - 226K followers on X

Measured over 20 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.169%
of 226K followers
Per impression
3.79%
10K views on a typical post
Reach
4.45%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
382
interactions (median)
Saved
0.05%
5 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.8/day
active 40% of days
Peak time
09:00 UTC
Sunday

A typical post picks up 382 interactions against 226K followers, an engagement rate of 0.169%. Measured over 20 original posts, its engagement rate beats 69% 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 10K times each, and 3.79% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.46% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.8 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 20 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.4K interactions, about 6.2x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #redarrows, #raf, #airshow.

Measured over 20 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #redarrows, #raf, #airshow.

Compared with accounts its own size

Red Arrows's engagement rate beats 69% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 81% 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 0.169%, Red Arrows sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,475 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.678%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,475 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,893 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 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.

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: Sunday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Sunday
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-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 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 201 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

  • Sep 13, 20266.2x their median

    Nine jets above Newcastle for the Great North Run today🏃‍♂️ #RedArrows | #GNR45 | #Newcastle | #GNR | #GreatNorthRun https://t.co/8jpPi6MLHP

    2.1K209481868K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 20264.2x their median

    Manchester 🐝. A very special flypast on the way home this evening, over Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. Great to provide this memorable moment for children receiving care, their families and all of the dedicated staff. #RedArrows | #RAF | #Manchester | #NHS https://t.co/3uAcVCW9fs

    1.4K16225755K viewsView on X
  • Sep 28, 20263.1x their median

    POV: The Red Arrows are on your tail! A brilliant, unusual view provided by the @PAFofficiel of the Red Arrows’ Hawks in formation behind the French Alpha Jets over Le Touquet yesterday. #RedArrows | #RAF | #PAF | #France | #LeTouquet https://t.co/U8fcXJq4Y6

    996165161138K viewsView on X
  • Aug 16, 20263.0x their median

    🇬🇧 Back in the UK! The Red Arrows have landed at RAF Lossiemouth, during the multi-leg journey home from North America. The team has one more flight home to RAF Waddington to complete the Operation Eagle Hawk return. #RedArrows | #RAF | #TeamLossie https://t.co/06zCk35zWe

    1.0K7731434K viewsView on X
  • Jul 29, 20262.2x their median

    The long journey home from the United States and Operation Eagle Hawk is underway. The Red Arrows’ Hawks, joined by RAF support aircraft including an Atlas A400M, Poseidon P-8 and Envoy, are in Goose Bay, Canada. 🇨🇦 #RedArrows | #RAF | #Canada https://t.co/JbMO6JyiNn

    7316921221K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 20262.1x their median

    Home! Red Arrows aircraft and personnel returned to RAF Waddington this morning following the team’s Operation Eagle Hawk tour to North America. #RedArrows | #RAF https://t.co/9SkqnxJipV

    7095617216K viewsView on X
  • Sep 12, 20261.9x their median

    🇬🇧 Red, white and blue for the Battle of Britain Airshow at IWM Duxford this afternoon. #RedArrows | #RAF | #Duxford | #Airshow | #UK https://t.co/3Cr5ChBNBw

    6516711413K viewsView on X
  • Aug 16, 20261.8x their median

    Journey home back underway. The Red Arrows completed initial legs from North America yesterday - leaving Goose Bay and refuelling in Iqaluit before reaching Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. The team overnighted in the Arctic Circle and will continue the trail to the UK as conditions allow.

    6235616230K viewsView on X
  • Jul 23, 20261.7x their median

    The Red Arrows have arrived at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in Wisconsin! It’s the first time the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team has visited this huge event - one of the world’s biggest airshows. The Red Arrows will be displaying at Oshkosh Friday-Sunday. #RedArrows | #RAF | #Oshkosh | #OSH26

    568809313K viewsView on X
  • Sep 10, 20261.6x their median

    🇯🇪 Rolling over Jersey - glorious skies for a Red Arrows display this afternoon. #RedArrows | #RAF | #Jersey | #Airshow | #JerseyCI https://t.co/3oqR1LkcnQ

    547718213K 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

#redarrows#raf#airshow#france#letouquet

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 382 interactions against 226K followers, an engagement rate of 0.169%. Measured over 20 original posts, its engagement rate beats 69% 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 10K times each, and 3.79% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.46% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.8 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 20 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.4K interactions, about 6.2x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #redarrows, #raf, #airshow.

What is Red Arrows's engagement rate on X?
Red Arrows (@rafredarrows) has an engagement rate of 0.169%, based on the median interactions across 20 original posts from the last 30 days against 225,799 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.169%, Red Arrows sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,475 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 @rafredarrows have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 69% 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 @rafredarrows post?
Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.8 posts per day across the measured window.

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