Rio Ferdinand engagement report
@rioferdy5 - 11M followers on X
Measured over 30 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 12K interactions against 11M followers, an engagement rate of 0.116%. Measured over 30 original posts, its engagement rate beats 87% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 368K times each, and 3.35% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.47% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 30 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video and 20% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 112K interactions, about 9.1x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #manchesterunited, #mufc, #fifaworldcup.
Measured over 30 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #manchesterunited, #mufc, #fifaworldcup.
Compared with accounts its own size
Rio Ferdinand's engagement rate beats 87% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 89% 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 0.116%, Rio Ferdinand sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,378 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.432%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.432% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 161.0% |
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 16:00 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Jul 19, 20269.1x their median
Footballs the winner #fifaworldcup #fifaworldcup
- Jul 18, 20267.7x their median
Selfie time at Fanatics Festival ahead of World Cup Final. ๐ธ https://t.co/w72Ty9r8nk
- Jul 27, 20266.6x their median
๐จ Chelsea exploring move to sign Danny Welbeck from Brighton & Hove Albion. Terms end 2027 & #BHAFC aware of interest. Early stage but optimism on all sides deal can be done; quality + leadership appeals to Alonso / #CFC @TheAthleticFC post @kierangill_DM https://t.co/wVkn0vcK7h
- Jul 6, 20265.5x their median
๐๐๐๐๐ https://t.co/4Qtn9yPh0C
- Jul 14, 20264.8x their median
Ego Yamalโฆ superstar! Another major international final - crazy 19 years old ๐๐ฝโฝ๏ธ๐ฅ๐ช๐ธ #fifaworldcup #fifaworldcup2026 https://t.co/jx6fZohcVP
- Jul 17, 20264.8x their median
This really happenedโฆ and no itโs not AI https://t.co/w0dQXu2zqd
- Jul 19, 20264.5x their median
Letโs remember Defences win big trophies guys ๐ Spain defensive record tops!
- Aug 17, 20264.2x their median
๐ Ibiza https://t.co/oyOxh4EuFw
- Aug 21, 20264.1x their median
This has just got me excited ๐ค๐ฝ๐๐ฝโฝ๏ธ https://t.co/32GsYrh3o3
- Jul 14, 20264.0x their median
Man United moving nicely in the windowโฆ No rumour police - just announcing!!! Love it ๐๐ฝโค๏ธโฝ๏ธ
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 12K interactions against 11M followers, an engagement rate of 0.116%. Measured over 30 original posts, its engagement rate beats 87% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 368K times each, and 3.35% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.47% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 30 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video and 20% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 112K interactions, about 9.1x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #manchesterunited, #mufc, #fifaworldcup.
- What is Rio Ferdinand's engagement rate on X?
- Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5) has an engagement rate of 0.116%, based on the median interactions across 30 original posts from the last 30 days against 10,615,718 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.116%, Rio Ferdinand sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,378 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 @rioferdy5 have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 87% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts), which puts it in the top quarter for its size 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 @rioferdy5 post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.37 posts per day across the measured window.