Andrew Neil engagement report
@afneil - 1.2M followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 626 interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.051%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 61% 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 124K times each, and 0.504% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 10.1% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 8 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video, 10% are part of a thread and 45% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 229K interactions, about 365x its own typical post.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tag: #scottishindependenceasap.
Compared with accounts its own size
Andrew Neil's engagement rate beats 61% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 33% 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 0.051%, Andrew Neil sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,214 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.081%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.436% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.2% |
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 10:00 UTC, and Sunday 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 26, 2026365x their median
Remembering the late, great Dolly, who brought joy, comfort and inspiration to so many - including the millions of children given free books through her Imagination Library. We will always ❤️ you. https://t.co/wdKHKGALlH
- Aug 22, 202651x their median
Amnesty International has truly lost the plot. It is promoting a so-called “Arday's law” which would to impose state-mandated limits on press coverage of one person. No doubt thru an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.’ Truly totalitarian. Defund @AmnestyUK.
- Aug 23, 202620x their median
UK energy policy just got even more bonkers: The Burnham Government is considering investing billions of pounds in new facilities to import foreign LNG, even though it refuses to issue any new licenses for North Sea gas, which emits 3/4 times less CO2 than imported LNG. Madness.
- Aug 22, 20269.7x their median
And there you have it. Howard Lutnick swoops in, makes last minute demands and kills thousands of negotiating hours. The lack of discipline within the Trump regime is brutal https://t.co/yTwFUeH8zf
- Aug 31, 20268.6x their median
13 years since we lost Dad. The greatest broadcaster that ever lived, and an even better father. Miss you enormously, but inspiring me everyday. ❤️ https://t.co/hB3ojfzaVv
- Aug 24, 20266.4x their median
I guess we've got a lot more of this type of thing to look forward to. https://t.co/6Ot9zVQ91z
- Aug 25, 20263.9x their median
Trump posts a graphic showing Lake Ontario renamed as "Lake America" https://t.co/1YaOdH2b6F
- Aug 30, 20263.5x their median
They told us Brexit would save lots of money (that would all go to the NHS). In fact it’s costing us a fortune (and constraining our ability to fund everything). https://t.co/lrf9Zf7XGv
- Aug 30, 20262.8x their median
This is awkward. David Yelland confuses James Cleverly and Kwasi Kwarteng. https://t.co/R8r44foLK9
- Aug 27, 20262.7x their median
The new @British_Airways app (which you’re now forced to download) continues to be a shambles. Go on to Flight Status. Type in London Gatwick or Gatwick. Up comes ‘sorry we don’t recognise London Gatwick’. Thank goodness the same IT wizards didn’t design the automatic pilot. You’ve had plenty of time to do something about those @British_Airways. Why so dilatory?
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
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 626 interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.051%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 61% 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 124K times each, and 0.504% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 10.1% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 8 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video, 10% are part of a thread and 45% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 229K interactions, about 365x its own typical post.
- What is Andrew Neil's engagement rate on X?
- Andrew Neil (@afneil) has an engagement rate of 0.051%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,226,443 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.051%, Andrew Neil sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,214 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 @afneil have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 61% 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 @afneil post?
- Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 8.03 posts per day across the measured window.