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RTÉ engagement report

@rte - 664K followers on X

Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 25, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 664K followers
Per impression
0.059%
6.8K views on a typical post
Reach
1.03%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
4
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.3/day
active 23% of days
Peak time
11:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 664K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 6.8K times each, and 0.059% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.03% 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 23% 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 39 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 42 interactions, about 11x its own typical post.

Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 25, 2026. Recurring tag: #rtésupportingthearts.

Compared with accounts its own size

RTÉ's engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 4% 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 0.001%, RTÉ sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,378 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.432%
p902.10%
p99161.0%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,378 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,364 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 percentile0.432%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile161.0%

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 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.

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: 11:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 11:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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
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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%230K
Monday0%286K
Tuesday-2%276K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%244K
Friday-3%252K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 23, 202611x their median

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  • Aug 20, 20267.5x their median

    RTÉ News: Vigil to be held in Carlow for those injured in M9 crash https://t.co/UQvE0VgdBM

    2721018K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20265.8x their median

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    1721317K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20264.8x their median

    RTÉ Entertainment: In Pictures: The Weeknd lights up Croke Park https://t.co/3IBy9ng7Nz

    1801011K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20263.3x their median

    RTÉ Sport: What awaits Parrott at Betis in Andalusian adventure? https://t.co/2dNq5c5qkV

    1201011K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20263.0x their median

    RTÉ Sport: Kobe-mania and the Irish experiment. https://t.co/xxVBTFnMQL

    930013K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20262.5x their median

    Wicklow special school pupils relishing results day. https://t.co/uyaqe4PRoD

    100007.2K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20262.3x their median

    RTÉ Lifestyle: The Gaeilge Revolution: 15 ways to add more Irish to your life. https://t.co/U8h4jeuwD8

    60303.7K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20262.3x their median

    RTÉ Culture: The wild true tale of the syndicate that tried to beat the lotto. https://t.co/TN9kOpOVFz

    61209.0K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 20262.3x their median

    Late Late Toy Show kicks off search for this year's stars ✨ https://t.co/iKapJn9H9W

    61208.8K 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.

Recurring topics

#rtésupportingthearts

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 4 interactions against 664K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 6.8K times each, and 0.059% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.03% 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 23% 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 39 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 42 interactions, about 11x its own typical post.

What is RTÉ's engagement rate on X?
RTÉ (@rte) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 39 original posts from the last 30 days against 664,298 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, RTÉ sits below the 10th 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 @rte have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% 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 @rte post?
Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.3 posts per day across the measured window.

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