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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 158.3% |
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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 234K |
| Monday | 0% | 294K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 288K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 247K |
| Friday | -3% | 256K |
| Saturday | +3% | 230K |
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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.