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Seattle Police Department engagement report

@SeattlePD - 549K followers on X

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.009%
of 549K followers
Per impression
0.255%
20K views on a typical post
Reach
3.64%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
51
interactions (median)
Saved
0.01%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.23/day
active 60% of days
Peak time
23:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 51 interactions against 549K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 32% of 3,791 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 20K times each, and 0.255% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.64% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 35% carry an image or video, 52% are part of a thread and 30% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.8K interactions, about 54x its own typical post.

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Seattle Police Department's engagement rate beats 32% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 20% 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 0.009%, Seattle Police Department sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,759 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

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p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.434%
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p99160.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,759 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,964 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 percentile0.434%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.4%

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 23:00 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: 23:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 23:00 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%50K
03:00 UTC-4%54K
04:00 UTC-6%43K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%48K
07:00 UTC-5%52K
08:00 UTC-4%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
10:00 UTC-2%72K
11:00 UTC-3%79K
12:00 UTC-2%87K
13:00 UTC-3%95K
14:00 UTC-4%98K
15:00 UTC-2%101K
16:00 UTC-4%99K
17:00 UTC-2%91K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-1%80K
20:00 UTC-1%75K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-2%58K
23:00 UTC-2%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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%232K
Monday0%290K
Tuesday-2%281K
Wednesday-1%252K
Thursday-2%245K
Friday-3%254K
Saturday+3%228K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Jul 27, 202654x their median

    Police are investigating a shooting. Multiple shooting victims. Shots fired at the Seattle Center. More information to come. Please avoid the area.

    2.0K38532693908K viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 20262.8x their median

    Three in custody after shots fired at officers at MLK and S Cloverdale St. No officers struck by the gunfire. More information when available.

    1002216630K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20262.2x their median

    Police are investigating a shooting in the 900 block of 8 AV. One person deceased, suspect is still outstanding. Please avoid the area. More information to come.

    681720628K viewsView on X
  • Jul 30, 20262.2x their median

    Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson names Andre Sayles Interim Chief of the Seattle Police Department. https://t.co/63GiqDShfI

    431152420K viewsView on X
  • Jul 6, 20261.8x their median

    Reminder that SR99 will be closed near the stadiums until the team USA supporters march finishes around 4pm. If you are stuck in traffic please stay in your car and don’t walk along the highway.

    70174130K viewsView on X
  • Jul 30, 20261.7x their median

    Update: SPD opens online portal to gather evidence in Seattle Center homicide investigation. https://t.co/416XYsXmzX

    291542214K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 2026

    Police are investigating a shooting in the 9000 block of 29 AV SW. One victim, suspect still outstanding. Please avoid the area. More information to come.

    411118319K viewsView on X
  • Aug 5, 2026

    Five people in vacant building arrested. Guns, drugs, and dogs recovered…(checks notes) yep, dogs. Photos of all included. https://t.co/hXbbYvB5xQ

    54610220K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 2026

    MISSING Endangered: Cynthia, 76 y/o, BF, 5’9, thin build, short black hair. Last seen wearing a white dress with blue flowers and carrying a black purse. Last seen walking south on 5 AV N in Lower Queen Anne around 6:45 p.m. Has Alzheimer’s. If seen please call 911. #26-243958. https://t.co/XMAlo2f1JK

    33305118K viewsView on X
  • Jul 31, 2026

    Update: SPD video from Seattle Center homicide investigation released. Read more at the link: https://t.co/416XYsXmzX https://t.co/arhwSY5RPL

    341318129K 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 51 interactions against 549K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 32% of 3,791 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 20K times each, and 0.255% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.64% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 35% carry an image or video, 52% are part of a thread and 30% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.8K interactions, about 54x its own typical post.

What is Seattle Police Department's engagement rate on X?
Seattle Police Department (@SeattlePD) has an engagement rate of 0.009%, based on the median interactions across 23 original posts from the last 30 days against 549,284 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.009%, Seattle Police Department sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,759 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 @SeattlePD have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 32% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 @SeattlePD post?
Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.23 posts per day across the measured window.

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