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London Fire Brigade engagement report

@LondonFire - 299K followers on X

Measured over 7 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 19, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.012%
of 299K followers
Per impression
0.22%
16K views on a typical post
Reach
5.33%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
35
interactions (median)
Saved
0.013%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.5/day
active 23% of days
Peak time
20:00 UTC
Wednesday

Early reading. We have captured 7 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 35 interactions against 299K followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Posts are seen about 16K times each, and 0.22% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.33% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.5 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 7 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 71% are part of a thread and 57% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 465 interactions, about 13x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #northolt, #wembley, #chadwellheath. Only 7 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 7 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 19, 2026. Recurring tags: #northolt, #wembley, #chadwellheath.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.012%, London Fire Brigade sits above the 10th percentile of the 218,597 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.149%
p750.705%
p902.63%
p9982.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 218,597 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 21,723 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 percentile0.149%
75th percentile0.705%
90th percentile2.63%
99th percentile82.5%

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 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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: 20:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 20:00 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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Wednesday
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 link57% 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.
  • 57% 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 231 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

  • Aug 30, 202613x their median

    Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters are responding to a fire on Pembridge Villas in #NottingHill. One van is alight. Please avoid the area while we respond. https://t.co/mauLC36eMB

    286109383271K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202612x their median

    There's a large fire in North London / Brent area https://t.co/HCV2gYqm0z

    329472916165K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 20266.5x their median

    A statement from London Fire Commissioner Jonathan Smith on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. https://t.co/dTpaF3cJqB

    188351412K viewsView on X
  • Oct 8, 20266.3x their median

    Two men were rescued this evening from a suspended window cleaning cradle on the 15th floor of a building on Blackfriars Road in #Southwark. The Brigade's 64m turntable ladder was used to reach the men and bring them down safely. https://t.co/NHnfgWxdYQ https://t.co/OVH1ngAesp

    185314221K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 20263.3x their median

    Staff across the Brigade have marked the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks today, parading on station forecourts for a minute silence and attending a memorial service organised by Lloyds of London, in partnership with the brokers Aon and Marsh: https://t.co/lNvAK8c4Kb https://t.co/gvksmKooMu

    10313019.6K viewsView on X
  • Jul 28, 20263.3x their median

    Fifteen fire engines and around 100 firefighters are tackling a waste facility fire in Islington. This will be a protracted incident with crews working into the night. Local residents should keep doors and windows closed due to smoke from the fire. https://t.co/P1ZbWDtCFa https://t.co/he256XH47j

    82219441K viewsView on X
  • Sep 9, 20263.0x their median

    This #EmergencyServicesDay, we want to take a moment to thank each and every one of our staff for everything they have done to protect lives and communities across London and the UK during one of our busiest summers on record. https://t.co/PWxdIdk3aT

    78223213K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20262.8x their median

    Twenty fire engines and around 125 firefighters have been called to a fire near Carshalton Road in #Mitcham. The fire is producing a significant amount of smoke, so local residents should keep their windows and doors closed. More info - https://t.co/H7kDvAgGY8 https://t.co/vxxvijbofN

    66226538K viewsView on X
  • Jul 30, 20262.6x their median

    Eight fire engines and around 60 firefighters have been called to a fire near South End Road in #Hornchurch. More info to follow https://t.co/WwGtMDG58N

    63244024K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20262.6x their median

    Huge fire 🔥 in South East London 👀🫨 #fire #london @LondonFire #southlondon https://t.co/gD451Hxwxe

    571413685K 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

#northolt#wembley#chadwellheath#waterloo#bermondsey

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 35 interactions against 299K followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Posts are seen about 16K times each, and 0.22% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.33% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.5 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 7 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 71% are part of a thread and 57% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 465 interactions, about 13x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #northolt, #wembley, #chadwellheath. Only 7 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 London Fire Brigade's engagement rate on X?
London Fire Brigade (@LondonFire) has an engagement rate of 0.012%, based on the median interactions across 7 original posts from the last 30 days against 298,978 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.012%, London Fire Brigade sits above the 10th percentile of the 218,597 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 @LondonFire have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @LondonFire post?
Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.5 posts per day across the measured window.

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