BBC News (World) engagement report
@BBCWorld - 42M followers on X
Measured over 699 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 323 interactions against 42M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Posts are seen about 138K times each, and 0.235% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.325% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 24.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 699 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 50K interactions, about 155x its own typical post.
Measured over 699 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.001%, BBC News (World) sits below the 10th percentile of the 211,839 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.146% |
| 75th percentile | 0.693% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 83.1% |
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 23:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 2% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 2% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 94 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below the same accounts' other posts.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Oct 9, 2026155x their median
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- Oct 9, 202669x their median
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- Sep 10, 202668x their median
Almost 25 years on from September 11, 2001, a drone display using 2,977 drones has recreated the Twin Towers, each representing a life lost in the attacks. Read more about the history of 9/11: https://t.co/aXosbHA2rL https://t.co/e3LljSqx0E
- Sep 25, 202665x their median
South African white genocide does not exist, new ambassador to US tells BBC https://t.co/wGJH6eCDi9
- Oct 21, 202662x their median
Bush clan members back Democrat James Talarico in Texas Senate race https://t.co/jenUDQ5Sqi
- Oct 5, 202655x their median
Supporters of jailed ex-PM Imran Khan march to Pakistan capital https://t.co/H2xACscQRr
- Oct 26, 202654x their median
Fans prepare to say goodbye as anime series Bleach officially ends https://t.co/5yoUYqiGu9
- Sep 27, 202649x their median
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- Aug 28, 202649x their median
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- Sep 15, 202645x their median
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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 323 interactions against 42M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Posts are seen about 138K times each, and 0.235% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.325% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 24.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 699 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 50K interactions, about 155x its own typical post.
- What is BBC News (World)'s engagement rate on X?
- BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 699 original posts from the last 30 days against 42,350,849 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, BBC News (World) sits below the 10th percentile of the 211,839 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 @BBCWorld have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @BBCWorld post?
- Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 24.8 posts per day across the measured window.