Westlife engagement report
@westlifemusic - 299K followers on X
Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 5, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 478 interactions against 299K followers, an engagement rate of 0.159%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% of 6,874 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 17K times each, and 2.83% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.63% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.37 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 20% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.8K interactions, about 5.8x its own typical post.
Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 5, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Westlife's engagement rate beats 70% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 75% 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 0.159%, Westlife sits above the 50th percentile of the 66,393 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.1% to 0.499%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.016% |
| 50th percentile | 0.1% |
| 75th percentile | 0.499% |
| 90th percentile | 2.09% |
| 99th percentile | 119.5% |
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 14:00 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% | 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 20% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 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.
- 20% 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 104 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
- Mar 27, 20265.8x their median
26 years ago today, Fool Again was released as our fifth ever single❤️ It was the final single from our debut album, and a song that means so much to us. You can also find it on our upcoming album ‘25 - The Ultimate Collection.’ https://t.co/AaghGX0Wa2
- Aug 9, 20263.0x their median
Happy Anniversary to our second ever single If I Let You Go. A nostalgia trip back to 1999… what are your memories? ❤️ https://t.co/VHabMIFH6l
- May 8, 20262.9x their median
SOUTHEAST ASIA / MEXICO / EUROPE / AUSTRALIA / NEW ZEALAND Here we go again! Our 25th Anniversary World Tour is going global in 2027 💫 We’re so excited to announce that as part of our 25th anniversary celebrations we’ll be heading to even more countries!! https://t.co/XC9iYCmoC6
- Apr 21, 20262.5x their median
27 years ago we released Swear It Again ❤️ Here’s a throwback to 1998 in the studio hearing Swear It Again for the first time. This was before we were even called Westlife, we were called Westside & this was after signing our first ever record deal! Where does the time go?🤯 https://t.co/Q4fkTneoLy
- Jul 5, 20262.0x their median
Oh and another thing we're thankful for... Happy Birthday @ShaneFilan 🥳❤️ https://t.co/cvkmt9W4fb
- Jul 24, 20261.8x their median
Waving the weekend in like 👋 https://t.co/ETSnIei1o7
- Feb 24, 20261.8x their median
25 years of some interesting fashion choices 😂 https://t.co/Lcj9enBYQ5
- Apr 17, 20261.8x their median
This one’s for you ❤️ Thank you for 25 incredible years of love and support, it means everything to us. We hope this song feels as special to you as it does to us. Your Love Amazes Me out now ❤️ https://t.co/FxCBx7JfxG https://t.co/ET2XW5psCk
- Aug 22, 20261.6x their median
Swear it all over again with us… Westlife 25: Live at The Royal Albert Hall is on RTE 1 tonight at 8:05pm. Will you be tuning in? 🇮🇪❤️ https://t.co/3E59VTAhyh
- Mar 17, 20261.6x their median
Happy St. Patrick’s Day from us to you! 🍀🇮🇪💚 https://t.co/SDx2vEkglN
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.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 478 interactions against 299K followers, an engagement rate of 0.159%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% of 6,874 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 17K times each, and 2.83% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.63% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.37 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 20% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.8K interactions, about 5.8x its own typical post.
- What is Westlife's engagement rate on X?
- Westlife (@westlifemusic) has an engagement rate of 0.159%, based on the median interactions across 10 original posts from the last 30 days against 299,378 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.159%, Westlife sits above the 50th percentile of the 66,393 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 @westlifemusic have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 70% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 @westlifemusic post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.37 posts per day across the measured window.