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The SNP engagement report

@theSNP - 320K followers on X

Measured over 24 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 13, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.14%
of 320K followers
Per impression
3.57%
13K views on a typical post
Reach
3.93%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
450
interactions (median)
Saved
0.048%
6 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.13/day
active 43% of days
Peak time
08:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 450 interactions against 320K followers, an engagement rate of 0.14%. Measured over 24 original posts, its engagement rate beats 76% of 21,185 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 13K times each, and 3.57% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.94% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 24 posts sampled, 58% carry an image or video and 46% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.1K interactions, about 4.7x its own typical post.

Measured over 24 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 13, 2026. Recurring tag: #bbcdn.

Compared with accounts its own size

The SNP's engagement rate beats 76% 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 82% 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 0.14%, The SNP sits above the 25th percentile of the 213,472 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.025% to 0.147%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.147%
p750.699%
p902.61%
p9982.9%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 213,472 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,408 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 percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.147%
75th percentile0.699%
90th percentile2.61%
99th percentile82.9%

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 08:00 UTC, and Monday 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.
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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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Monday
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 video58% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link46% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 58% 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.
  • 46% 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 171 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below the same accounts' other posts.

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 14, 20264.7x their median

    👀 The SNP is in Wales today… 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪 https://t.co/m8KljkGPXv

    1.8K1341582554K viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 20263.7x their median

    What they said 👇 https://t.co/mnt8biIcQv

    1.1K26022131151K viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 20263.5x their median

    🔥 What a day. https://t.co/amh9FrqgHW

    9422024292142K viewsView on X
  • Sep 30, 20263.3x their median

    Andy Burnham's "National Care Service" turns out to be Free Personal Care in England. Inspired by a policy already delivered in Scotland by the SNP. https://t.co/KDAHlQY6dP

    9214561091828K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 20262.9x their median

    Free bus travel from 60 in Scotland. In England, you wait until 66. That means older Scots can save more than £1,000 a year getting around. That’s the difference an SNP government on Scotland’s side can make. https://t.co/yMSRHQdSbU

    6462503872830K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20262.8x their median

    Scotland’s future should be decided by the people who live here. A draft Independence Referendum Bill has now been published, setting out the question and who would have a vote. Now Westminster must transfer the powers and let Scotland choose its own future. https://t.co/gknLd4cKwr

    6482303562924K viewsView on X
  • Sep 9, 20262.6x their median

    Andy Burnham: If a majority of Scots want independence there should be a referendum Scotland is a nation - and every nation has the right to choose its own future. Our pledge is simple: choice, fairness and democracy must guide Scotland’s path. Add your name today: https://t.co/xjEt6V9ZCV

    7112622001632K viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 20262.2x their median

    The UK no longer offers strength and stability, instead it offers a new Prime Minister every 1.5 years. No wonder a majority of Scots now support real constitutional change - independence for Scotland. https://t.co/e2UgFtCH4b

    5392102021719K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 20262.1x their median

    We don't hear much from Better Together these days. Their £1,400 "Union dividend" from 2014 has been wiped out by Brexit, which is costing everyone in Scotland £3,000 a year. Even though Scotland said "no thanks" to Brexit. https://t.co/fGfdSBq8X3

    5122092141119K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 20262.0x their median

    The people of Scotland voted in a majority of pro-independence MSPs. But Andy Burnham, who nobody in Scotland voted for as Prime Minister, says it is “off limits”. https://t.co/N5QLRP7fHx

    504209192917K 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

#bbcdn

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 450 interactions against 320K followers, an engagement rate of 0.14%. Measured over 24 original posts, its engagement rate beats 76% of 21,185 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 13K times each, and 3.57% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.94% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 24 posts sampled, 58% carry an image or video and 46% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.1K interactions, about 4.7x its own typical post.

What is The SNP's engagement rate on X?
The SNP (@theSNP) has an engagement rate of 0.14%, based on the median interactions across 24 original posts from the last 30 days against 319,619 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.14%, The SNP sits above the 25th percentile of the 213,472 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 @theSNP have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 76% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 @theSNP post?
Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.13 posts per day across the measured window.

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