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Vince Cable engagement report

@vincecable - 140K followers on X

Measured over 5 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 28, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.005%
of 140K followers
Per impression
0.292%
2.4K views on a typical post
Reach
1.71%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
7
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.2/day
active 20% of days
Peak time
08:00 UTC
Friday

Early reading. We have captured 5 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 7 interactions against 140K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Posts are seen about 2.4K times each, and 0.292% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.72% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 5 posts sampled, 60% carry an image or video and 80% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 146 interactions, about 21x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #china, #indiaahead, #modi. Only 5 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 5 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 28, 2026. Recurring tags: #china, #indiaahead, #modi.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.005%, Vince Cable sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,374 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 205,374 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,897 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 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.

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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Friday
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 video60% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link80% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 60% 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.
  • 80% 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 170 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 21, 202621x their median

    📷 Lorries and vans account for 10% of Britain's GHG emissions. We can replace diesel with battery power and hydrogen. I make the case for EVs in the HGV sector at @EVChargeLive iN Birmingham on Tuesday 22 September, speaking for @eFreight2030 consortium. https://t.co/ygceXnCGqw

    68146316.4K viewsView on X
  • Jul 20, 20263.7x their median

    Need for stability: 7 Prime Ministers since 2015, 8 Chancellors, 11 Business Secretaries. 20 Housing Ministers since 1997. Stop endless reshuffles. On @IainDale tonight.

    205104.2K viewsView on X
  • Jun 15, 20263.0x their median

    The defence row exposes Labour’s fiscal dilemma. Rachel Reeves is simply doing her job. John Healey resigned honourably. The buck stops with the Prime Minister. Before he goes, he should abandon Labour’s tax pledge and face hard choices on welfare and pensions. https://t.co/ez9mL1P7TG

    152311.9K viewsView on X
  • Jul 10, 20262.7x their median

    In a speech at the @OxfordUnion, I set out a liberal argument for choice in citizenship. We are a diverse society, and people’s lives are often complicated. Our rules should be flexible enough to recognise that. Watch the full speech below. https://t.co/UOTBXWlURZ https://t.co/EezGydXT5l

    162102.0K viewsView on X
  • Jul 13, 20262.6x their median

    I spoke with @edvaizey on @TimesRadio about China’s rise, the shift in global economic power and why this should not be seen in zero-sum terms. Full conversation below. https://t.co/H12f7kkCSD https://t.co/Mov58bOiMC

    144002.6K viewsView on X
  • Jun 15, 20262.6x their median

    At @JLFLitfest, I joined @SanamVakil of @ChathamHouse, and @martinwolf_ from @FT, for a discussion on China, Iran and the future balance of power, led by @NavtejSarna. One point I touched on was that energy security is fundamental to any long-term strategy in such a landscape. https://t.co/ZJ4h5lKmbo

    114122.3K viewsView on X
  • Jul 3, 20262.3x their median

    Spoke about Andy Burnham's recent pitch with @ShelaghFogarty on @LBC. The emphasis on devolution and decentralisation is absolutely right. However, government needs to manage expectations, as it does not automatically solve problems or produce instant results. https://t.co/RuaGuQ5zsp

    102403.0K viewsView on X
  • Jul 7, 20262.0x their median

    Last weekend, I took part in two conversations at @BradfordLitFest, discussing the rise and decline of empires, from Rome and the Ottomans to Britain and the US, and my book Eclipsing the West, on how India and China are now central to the shifting balance of global power. https://t.co/M2OiLVUIUv

    131001.4K viewsView on X
  • Jun 29, 20262.0x their median

    Government must stand up to Trump on tech companies https://t.co/DrIVyktk2D https://t.co/ak9U39LjqU

    122001.2K viewsView on X
  • Jun 19, 20262.0x their median

    As the tenth anniversary of the Brexit referendum approaches, I joined @euromove’s panel with @davidwmarsh, @Naomi4Britain, Owen Bennett and @jdportes. The UK needs a closer relationship with Europe, built openly and with a clear public mandate. https://t.co/SriXJjg4Xy

    104001.2K 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

#china#indiaahead#modi

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 7 interactions against 140K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Posts are seen about 2.4K times each, and 0.292% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.72% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 5 posts sampled, 60% carry an image or video and 80% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 146 interactions, about 21x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #china, #indiaahead, #modi. Only 5 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 Vince Cable's engagement rate on X?
Vince Cable (@vincecable) has an engagement rate of 0.005%, based on the median interactions across 5 original posts from the last 30 days against 139,885 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.005%, Vince Cable sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,374 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 @vincecable have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @vincecable post?
Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.2 posts per day across the measured window.

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