The Royal Society engagement report
@royalsociety - 333K followers on X
Measured over 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on October 10, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 1 original post for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.
A typical post picks up 12 interactions against 333K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Posts are seen about 5.9K times each, and 0.202% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.78% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 3% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% are part of a thread and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 612 interactions, about 51x its own typical post. Only 1 original post have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
Measured over 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on October 10, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.004%, The Royal Society sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,825 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 | 0.697% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 83.0% |
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 10:00 UTC, and Thursday 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 | 0% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 0% 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 247 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
- Mar 8, 202551x their median
Biodiversity is under intense pressure from human activity worldwide. Sir David Attenborough explains why biodiversity is so important to humans, how biodiversity loss is impacting our world and how there is still time to change direction – if we act now: https://t.co/scxlQfII0y
- Feb 19, 202529x their median
Nicolaus Copernicus was born #OnThisDay in 1473. His work marked the start of the Copernican Revolution and the paradigm shift from a geocentric model of the cosmos, with the Earth at the centre, to a heliocentric model with the planets orbiting the Sun. #HistoryOfScience https://t.co/QOUWKwyp6T
- Feb 11, 202516x their median
Today is #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience and we are celebrating by sharing some of the brilliant research projects being undertaken by girls in schools, and the amazing scientists supporting them, through the Royal Society #PartnershipGrants scheme. https://t.co/urCqFcUKOl
- Feb 25, 202514x their median
Science advances our economic, physical and social and cultural wellbeing, and is key to a sustainable future. However, we live in times of great change, and the values that have driven science for the benefit of humanity are under threat. Read our statement here: https://t.co/V2I1M8KATl
- Feb 8, 202513x their median
Dmitri Mendeleev was born #OnThisDay in 1834. He was a Russian chemist and inventor who formulated the Periodic Law and created the earliest example of a periodic table. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1892, and won both our Davy and Copley Medals. https://t.co/yAztz8QapF
- Feb 28, 202512x their median
Pandemics like COVID-19 have shown us why we need vaccines, allowing many of us to grow up without fear of contracting diseases like polio and diphtheria. What would a world without vaccines look like? https://t.co/KjaoHOT3VV
- Feb 7, 202512x their median
Vitamin B12 is the world's most expensive vitamin, and the rarest in the human body. But where does it come from? https://t.co/lQjp04ILc7 https://t.co/CSJu7UFD8X
- Feb 14, 20259.7x their median
15 years ago, the @aaas and the Royal Society released the landmark report ‘New frontiers in science diplomacy’, which has served as a model for how science diplomacy is conducted around the world. Now a new report, ‘Science diplomacy in an era of disruption’, seeks to update the framework for a new, disruptive era.
- Sep 29, 20259.5x their median
As Adrian Smith, President of the Royal Society said earlier this year: "There have always been attacks on science, but today there are genuine concerns that we may be turning our backs on research and the values of calm, evidence-based debate https://t.co/nzhGv8mO89
- Feb 12, 20259.3x their median
Why did the sight of a peacock make Charles Darwin FRS feel sick? Sir David Attenborough explains. Darwin was born #OnThisDay in 1809. Watch the full video: https://t.co/uJN9RaiHep https://t.co/RGbvtfGvfp
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.
Buy or sell Twitter (X) accounts - escrow-protected
PlayerSells is an escrow marketplace for Twitter (X) accounts. Every deal is protected, with no middleman risk.
Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 12 interactions against 333K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Posts are seen about 5.9K times each, and 0.202% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.78% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 3% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% are part of a thread and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 612 interactions, about 51x its own typical post. Only 1 original post have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
- What is The Royal Society's engagement rate on X?
- The Royal Society (@royalsociety) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 1 original posts from the last 30 days against 333,251 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.004%, The Royal Society sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,825 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 @royalsociety have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @royalsociety post?
- Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.1 posts per day across the measured window.