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POLITICOEurope engagement report

@POLITICOEurope - 422K followers on X

Measured over 37 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.007%
of 422K followers
Per impression
0.315%
8.9K views on a typical post
Reach
2.11%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
28
interactions (median)
Saved
0.034%
3 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.33/day
active 10% of days
Peak time
11:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 28 interactions against 422K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 37 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% of 3,829 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 8.9K times each, and 0.315% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.11% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 37 posts sampled, 49% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.8K interactions, about 100x its own typical post.

Measured over 37 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

POLITICOEurope's engagement rate beats 26% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 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 24% 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 0.007%, POLITICOEurope sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,071 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.435%
p902.10%
p99158.3%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,071 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 105,527 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 percentile0.435%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile158.3%

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 11:00 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: 11:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 11:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
02:00 UTC-3%51K
03:00 UTC-4%54K
04:00 UTC-6%44K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%49K
07:00 UTC-5%53K
08:00 UTC-4%61K
09:00 UTC-3%71K
10:00 UTC-2%73K
11:00 UTC-3%80K
12:00 UTC-2%88K
13:00 UTC-2%96K
14:00 UTC-4%99K
15:00 UTC-2%103K
16:00 UTC-3%100K
17:00 UTC-2%92K
18:00 UTC-1%86K
19:00 UTC-2%81K
20:00 UTC-1%75K
21:00 UTC-1%67K
22:00 UTC-1%58K
23:00 UTC-1%52K
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 5%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%234K
Monday0%294K
Tuesday-3%288K
Wednesday-1%253K
Thursday-2%247K
Friday-3%256K
Saturday+3%230K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 29, 2026100x their median

    German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is preparing to blame Russia for the attempted drone attack in Leipzig and announce "extensive" sanctions, in what would mark a serious hardening of Berlin's posture toward Moscow. https://t.co/kkz3toOQz3

    2.0K56814492310K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202618x their median

    France is open to cooperating with Sweden on building a next-generation fighter jet, an Elysée official has told reporters. https://t.co/eIUPYzxldA

    36510991126K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 20266.7x their median

    Iceland has voted against restarting accession talks with the European Union in a referendum held this weekend. https://t.co/iaTgnXRdgH

    10337222666K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20266.1x their median

    Ukraine has intelligence that Russia is planning new ground offensives against Kyiv and Chernihiv — while Moscow ramps up drone strikes on Ukrainian cities. https://t.co/yywl3AbTGu

    985516317K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20265.7x their median

    Russia’s campaign against Europe looks increasingly brazen. Yet EU leaders remain reluctant to call it what a growing number of security officials say it resembles: war. 🔗 https://t.co/poBw6XvwFo https://t.co/8c3wSLr0TS

    89587510K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20265.2x their median

    With drone incursions, assassination attempts and sabotage on European soil, some critics say the conflict with Russia is no longer just “hybrid” in nature. 🔗 https://t.co/poBw6XvwFo https://t.co/djw87vChZ3

    804610912K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20263.6x their median

    EXCLUSIVE: Climate and artificial intelligence are set to feature prominently in Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union address, according to two officials. https://t.co/vOoGobkgev

    73167638K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20263.6x their median

    NATO officials must strengthen military contact with Russia to reduce the growing risk of all-out war caused by miscalculation, Moscow’s envoy to Norway Nikolay Korchunov told POLITICO. https://t.co/KmXK4tA284

    412626847K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20263.6x their median

    Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced today he has accepted an offer to advise Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto on defense innovation. https://t.co/fc5OzRa2XJ

    71280111K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 20262.7x their median

    Russia’s campaign against Europe looks increasingly brazen. Yet EU leaders remain reluctant to call it what a growing number of security officials say it resembles: war. 🔗 https://t.co/poBw6XvwFo https://t.co/XnRqqiN0LC

    33182045.0K 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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 28 interactions against 422K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 37 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% of 3,829 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 8.9K times each, and 0.315% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.11% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 37 posts sampled, 49% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.8K interactions, about 100x its own typical post.

What is POLITICOEurope's engagement rate on X?
POLITICOEurope (@POLITICOEurope) has an engagement rate of 0.007%, based on the median interactions across 37 original posts from the last 30 days against 421,751 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.007%, POLITICOEurope sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,071 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 @POLITICOEurope have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 26% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 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 @POLITICOEurope post?
Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.

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