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Rio Ferdinand engagement report

@rioferdy5 - 11M followers on X

Measured over 30 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.116%
of 11M followers
Per impression
3.35%
368K views on a typical post
Reach
3.47%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
12K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.01%
36 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.37/day
active 53% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Sunday

A typical post picks up 12K interactions against 11M followers, an engagement rate of 0.116%. Measured over 30 original posts, its engagement rate beats 87% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 368K times each, and 3.35% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.47% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 30 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video and 20% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 112K interactions, about 9.1x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #manchesterunited, #mufc, #fifaworldcup.

Measured over 30 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #manchesterunited, #mufc, #fifaworldcup.

Compared with accounts its own size

Rio Ferdinand's engagement rate beats 87% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 89% 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 0.116%, Rio Ferdinand sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,378 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.432%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.432%
p902.10%
p99161.0%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,378 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,364 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.432%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile161.0%

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 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: 16:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 16:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%50K
01:00 UTC-2%51K
02:00 UTC-3%50K
03:00 UTC-4%53K
04:00 UTC-6%43K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%48K
07:00 UTC-5%52K
08:00 UTC-4%60K
09:00 UTC-3%69K
10:00 UTC-2%72K
11:00 UTC-3%78K
12:00 UTC-2%86K
13:00 UTC-2%94K
14:00 UTC-4%97K
15:00 UTC-2%100K
16:00 UTC-3%97K
17:00 UTC-2%90K
18:00 UTC-1%84K
19:00 UTC-2%79K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-2%57K
23:00 UTC-2%51K
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 5%Busiest day: Sunday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%230K
Monday0%286K
Tuesday-2%276K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%244K
Friday-3%252K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Jul 19, 20269.1x their median

    Footballs the winner #fifaworldcup #fifaworldcup

    96K15K8753301.1M viewsView on X
  • Jul 18, 20267.7x their median

    Selfie time at Fanatics Festival ahead of World Cup Final. ๐Ÿ“ธ https://t.co/w72Ty9r8nk

    88K4.8K9464223.5M viewsView on X
  • Jul 27, 20266.6x their median

    ๐Ÿšจ Chelsea exploring move to sign Danny Welbeck from Brighton & Hove Albion. Terms end 2027 & #BHAFC aware of interest. Early stage but optimism on all sides deal can be done; quality + leadership appeals to Alonso / #CFC @TheAthleticFC post @kierangill_DM https://t.co/wVkn0vcK7h

    63K5.3K5.7K7.4K20M viewsView on X
  • Jul 6, 20265.5x their median

    ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ https://t.co/4Qtn9yPh0C

    58K8.5K8876412.1M viewsView on X
  • Jul 14, 20264.8x their median

    Ego Yamalโ€ฆ superstar! Another major international final - crazy 19 years old ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝโšฝ๏ธ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ #fifaworldcup #fifaworldcup2026 https://t.co/jx6fZohcVP

    56K2.6K4832502.2M viewsView on X
  • Jul 17, 20264.8x their median

    This really happenedโ€ฆ and no itโ€™s not AI https://t.co/w0dQXu2zqd

    54K4.1K8814273.0M viewsView on X
  • Jul 19, 20264.5x their median

    Letโ€™s remember Defences win big trophies guys ๐Ÿ‘€ Spain defensive record tops!

    51K3.6K398126707K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 20264.2x their median

    ๐Ÿ“ Ibiza https://t.co/oyOxh4EuFw

    47K4.4K4552474.9M viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20264.1x their median

    This has just got me excited ๐ŸคŒ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝโšฝ๏ธ https://t.co/32GsYrh3o3

    43K6.1K332320725K viewsView on X
  • Jul 14, 20264.0x their median

    Man United moving nicely in the windowโ€ฆ No rumour police - just announcing!!! Love it ๐Ÿ‘Š๐Ÿฝโค๏ธโšฝ๏ธ

    46K3.6K41485881K 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

#manchesterunited#mufc#fifaworldcup#riopresents

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 12K interactions against 11M followers, an engagement rate of 0.116%. Measured over 30 original posts, its engagement rate beats 87% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 368K times each, and 3.35% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.47% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 30 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video and 20% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 112K interactions, about 9.1x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #manchesterunited, #mufc, #fifaworldcup.

What is Rio Ferdinand's engagement rate on X?
Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5) has an engagement rate of 0.116%, based on the median interactions across 30 original posts from the last 30 days against 10,615,718 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.116%, Rio Ferdinand sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,378 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 @rioferdy5 have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 87% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts), which puts it in the top 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 @rioferdy5 post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.37 posts per day across the measured window.

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