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BFI engagement report

@BFI - 728K followers on X

Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.005%
of 728K followers
Per impression
0.33%
12K views on a typical post
Reach
1.66%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
40
interactions (median)
Saved
0.074%
9 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.43/day
active 80% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 40 interactions against 728K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% of 21,185 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 12K times each, and 0.33% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.66% 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 almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 52% carry an image or video and 71% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.9K interactions, about 47x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #lff, #bfiplayer, #ukglobalscreenfund.

Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #lff, #bfiplayer, #ukglobalscreenfund.

Compared with accounts its own size

BFI's engagement rate beats 26% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 22% 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 0.005%, BFI sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,146 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.146%
p750.694%
p902.61%
p9983.1%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 212,146 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,455 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.146%
75th percentile0.694%
90th percentile2.61%
99th percentile83.1%

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 15:00 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.

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: 15:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 15:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video52% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link71% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 52% 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.
  • 71% 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 214 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

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

  • Aug 24, 202647x their median

    George MacKay and Callum Turner star in Mark Jenkin’s time-travelling odyssey about a long-lost fishing boat that mysteriously returns to harbour. Rose of Nevada is out now on BFI Player and Blu-ray. https://t.co/BthAYUhVKw https://t.co/CPZWqe65gq

    1.8K76429933K viewsView on X
  • Sep 16, 202629x their median

    Restored. Uncensored. In 35mm. We are excited to announce a week of exclusive 35mm previews of Ken Russell's The Devils, running at BFI Southbank from 23 October. On sale for BFI Members from Wed 23 Sep and on general sale from Fri 25 Sep. https://t.co/Y7d7SibcUH

    1.1K9651228K viewsView on X
  • Aug 5, 202628x their median

    Save the date. Ken Russell’s The Devils returns to the big screen in its definitive 4K restoration, fully restored and presented as the filmmaker intended. A landmark of British cinema, back in UK and Ireland cinemas from 30 October. In partnership with Warner Bros. Clockwork. https://t.co/CgFFdA9EMj

    942121164180K viewsView on X
  • Jul 29, 202619x their median

    The 70th edition of the BFI London Film Festival will take place in London and around the UK at the following venues ⬇️ https://t.co/Z7rqoHwDUQ

    6773872449K viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 202614x their median

    CW: Flashing images, high volume Ken Russell's The Devils brand new 4K restoration opens in cinemas on 30 Oct 2026. Released by the BFI in cinemas in the UK & Ireland, in partnership with Warner Bros. Clockwork. https://t.co/Tx3W0al5NL

    45978111434K viewsView on X
  • Aug 10, 202614x their median

    First look at new official artwork for Ken Russell's The Devils. Opening in cinemas across the UK and Ireland on 30 October. In partnership with Warner Bros. Clockwork. https://t.co/6jKZuaZqWA

    4697061741K viewsView on X
  • Jul 29, 202613x their median

    The 70th BFI London Film Festival Opening Night Gala will be the European premiere of Elsinore. #LFF https://t.co/jnOxYYJmGO

    4119242736K viewsView on X
  • Aug 6, 202610x their median

    Revealing our new 4K UHDs and Blu-rays for October, November and December ⬇️

    3742110583K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 202610x their median

    #LFF dates for the diary 🗓️ 2 Sep 11:00: Programme revealed 9 Sep 10:00: Priority booking for BFI Patrons 10 Sep 10:00: Priority booking for BFI Members 17 Sep 10:00: Tickets on general sale 1 Oct 10:00: Extra tickets released 7-18 October: The Festival takes place

    366305727K viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 20269.7x their median

    The UK premiere of Jesse Eisenberg's The Debut is the Closing Night Gala at the 70th BFI London Film Festival. #LFF https://t.co/m5rXACoyWV https://t.co/Ada9eQHN7a

    3253932233K 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

#lff#bfiplayer#ukglobalscreenfund

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 40 interactions against 728K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% of 21,185 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 12K times each, and 0.33% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.66% 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 almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 52% carry an image or video and 71% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.9K interactions, about 47x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #lff, #bfiplayer, #ukglobalscreenfund.

What is BFI's engagement rate on X?
BFI (@BFI) has an engagement rate of 0.005%, based on the median interactions across 31 original posts from the last 30 days against 728,392 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.005%, BFI sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,146 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 @BFI have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 26% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 @BFI post?
Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.43 posts per day across the measured window.

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