Metropolitan Police engagement report
@metpoliceuk - 1.3M followers on X
Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 208 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 41% of 3,848 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 50K times each, and 0.418% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.86% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.83 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 88% carry an image or video and 31% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.1K interactions, about 20x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #missing, #se26.
Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #missing, #se26.
Compared with accounts its own size
Metropolitan Police's engagement rate beats 41% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,848 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 28% 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 0.016%, Metropolitan Police sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,320 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 | 160.1% |
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 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 62K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 71K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 74K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 80K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 88K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 97K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 100K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 103K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 100K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 93K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 82K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 76K |
| 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% | 235K |
| Monday | 0% | 296K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 292K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 254K |
| Thursday | -2% | 248K |
| Friday | -3% | 256K |
| Saturday | +3% | 230K |
Best tweets
- Jul 10, 202620x their median
💎 Earlier this year, a trio of masked suspects smashed the window of a Richmond jewellers with a sledgehammer before reaching in to grab jewels worth around £225,000 and making off. They thought they’d got away with it, here’s how it’s going for them... https://t.co/TzqRlSkU6O
- Jul 29, 202617x their median
The activist group Defend Our Juries has planned a mass show of support for the proscribed group Palestine Action outside Westminster Magistrates' Court tomorrow. Expressing support for Palestine Action is an offence under the Terrorism Act. Those who do so will be arrested.
- Aug 22, 202616x their median
Our thoughts are with the family and friends of PC Matthew Blades and PC Tom Clough and all our colleagues at Cleveland Police. We know their loss will be acutely felt across the policing family, particularly by those who had the privilege of serving alongside both officers. We are thinking of them and all those impacted by this tragic incident at this unimaginably difficult time.
- Jul 30, 20267.3x their median
🧵 | People are beginning to gather outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court after activist group Defend Our Juries announced a mass show of support for the proscribed group Palestine Action. Expressing support for Palestine Action is an offence under the Terrorism Act. Officers have begun making arrests. Updates on today’s policing operation will be posted on this thread.
- Jul 13, 20267.0x their median
Following a series of violent antisemitic attacks, we are making the largest-ever investment to protect Jewish communities. Over £250 million will fund additional officers, specialist training, counter-terrorism capabilities and enhanced security for synagogues and schools. https://t.co/TUoDVnUpji
- Jul 19, 20266.7x their median
Conditions are in place on Whitehall tomorrow (Monday, 20 July). Anyone assembling near the Downing Street gates to observe events linked to the new Prime Minister must not use any amplified noise equipment and must stay within the shaded area. These conditions are in place between 10:30 – 13:30.
- Jul 20, 20265.9x their median
A trip to the cash machine shouldn't end in robbery. Khaled Menadli preyed on vulnerable victims, waiting for them to withdraw cash before stealing their money. He has now been sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison. https://t.co/PayZ7mtDBW
- Jul 30, 20265.4x their median
A vehicle stop in South London led officers to seize an estimated £4m in cash and 1kg of cocaine from a linked address. This is one of the largest cash seizures the Met has seen. We will disrupt serious and organised crime and keep Londoners safe. https://t.co/H6YifcAzUK
- Jun 27, 20265.2x their median
We’re investigating a serious collision that took place in Ealing Broadway earlier. Five people were injured after being struck by a car. The driver has been arrested. If you saw anything or have footage of the incident, please contact us on 101 giving the reference 4607/27JUN. https://t.co/MDVK7VvqU0
- Jul 20, 20263.4x their median
After reports of a fight in central London, one man thought he could outrun officers by weaving through backstreets and hiding nearby. What he didn't realise was a Met Drone had already been deployed, providing officers real-time updates on his every move. https://t.co/tD332zhTDT
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 208 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 41% of 3,848 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 50K times each, and 0.418% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.86% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.83 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 88% carry an image or video and 31% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.1K interactions, about 20x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #missing, #se26.
- What is Metropolitan Police's engagement rate on X?
- Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) has an engagement rate of 0.016%, based on the median interactions across 16 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,292,961 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.016%, Metropolitan Police sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,320 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 @metpoliceuk have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 41% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,848 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 @metpoliceuk post?
- Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.83 posts per day across the measured window.