RTÉ News engagement report
@rtenews - 1.5M followers on X
Measured over 834 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 29, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 42 interactions against 1.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Posts are seen about 16K times each, and 0.259% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.08% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 27.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 834 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.6K interactions, about 61x its own typical post.
Measured over 834 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 29, 2026. Recurring tag: #breaking.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.003%, RTÉ News sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,567 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 | 0.696% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 82.7% |
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 06:00 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 | 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 187 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
- Sep 21, 202661x their median
Over 160 Irish sportspeople have signed an open letter to the Irish senior men's national football team, urging them to "act collectively with conscience" and refuse to participate in their upcoming games against Israel https://t.co/XLefa7XYOc
- Oct 14, 202652x their median
US President Donald Trump has said that "massive" oil, gas and mineral exploration is getting ready to begin in Greenland https://t.co/WhfzxW24s1
- Sep 19, 202640x their median
President Catherine Connolly has said war and genocide are being "normalised" by world powers https://t.co/IC0BbR6xp7
- Sep 17, 202639x their median
RTÉ has confirmed that Ireland will not take part in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest and that it will not broadcast the competition https://t.co/4094hksR1D
- Sep 24, 202638x their median
Macklemore has announced a Dublin concert as part of his new Free Palestine Tour, following his removal from the remaining dates of Ed Sheeran's US tour earlier this month https://t.co/qTK3dnPRYT
- Oct 26, 202631x their median
Israel has committed the crime against humanity of "extermination" in the West Bank, while continuing to commit "genocide" against Palestinians in Gaza, United Nations-mandated investigators have said https://t.co/ylKKp5VAf6
- Oct 9, 202631x their median
#Breaking Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Bryant has banned the Orange Order parade at Drumcree, saying it is "not in the public interest" for it to proceed | Follow live https://t.co/uPDnvobv0A
- Oct 26, 202630x their median
US rapper Macklemore will bring his Free Palestine tour to Dublin's 3Arena tonight, with the full line-up of special guests yet to be announced https://t.co/gvxwJwQ3fS
- Oct 22, 202626x their median
The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has taken down three online video advertisements related to its 'We Consent' campaign, following criticism of one advert in particular https://t.co/h3fjWjxmDk
- Sep 14, 202626x their median
US President Donald Trump has said yesterday evening's move to lift tariffs on Irish whiskey applies to Ireland only and not the EU https://t.co/I6H2y9HPLH
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 42 interactions against 1.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Posts are seen about 16K times each, and 0.259% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.08% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 27.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 834 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.6K interactions, about 61x its own typical post.
- What is RTÉ News's engagement rate on X?
- RTÉ News (@rtenews) has an engagement rate of 0.003%, based on the median interactions across 834 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,495,505 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.003%, RTÉ News sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,567 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 @rtenews have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @rtenews post?
- Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 27.8 posts per day across the measured window.