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Defra UK

@DefraGovUK · UK · joined 23 Jun 2009

Official feed for Defra, UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Please note: we do not respond to queries on social media.

171 011Followers
1 024Following
26 413Posts total
22.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views127this account7 037median for 100K–1M
Reach, %0.07%this account2.88%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %2.38%this account1.40%median for 100K–1M
MetricThis accountMedian for 100K–1MRatio
Median views per post1277 0370.02×
Reach (views ÷ followers)0.07%2.88%0.03×
Engagement rate2.38%1.40%1.71×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

8.6K30 Jul
127
84
441 Aug
4.6K28 Aug
4K
1429 Aug
19
23
1.8K1 Sep
2.9K

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.96%30 Jul
3.15%
2.38%
6.82%1 Aug
0.84%28 Aug
0.72%
7.14%29 Aug
10.53%
4.35%
0.62%1 Sep
0.60%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes45.5%91 in total
Reposts17.0%34 in total
Replies28.5%57 in total
Quotes5.0%10 in total
Bookmarks4.0%8 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

£13 million just landed for farming innovation! This funding is turning brilliant research, like a vaccine protecting pigs against bacterial infection, into tools farmers can use. It's part of our £200 million commitment to agri-tech by 2030. Read more: https://t.co/uUUwc3KCcM 2.9K views · 10 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies 01 Sep 2026 Good implementation starts early. A new UK-EU agri-food SPS agreement could affect food manufacturing, whether or not you trade with the EU. See what's already published and sign up for updates: https://t.co/hjOYXu81DA https://t.co/I7FQFtKCe3 1.8K views · 5 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies 01 Sep 2026 @DefraGovUK Great, but why didn't you take action before it got to a mega size? You were informed about it. 23 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 29 Aug 2026 @DefraGovUK If successive governments hadn't defunded local authorities and the Environment Agency, we wouldn't have giant illegal waste sites. 19 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 29 Aug 2026 @DefraGovUK Have to ask why it got that big in the first place. Surely it would have been noted/reported by locals on a constant basis? Also, have you tracked who was responsible for this? 14 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 29 Aug 2026 We’ve stepped up our response to drought and now meet with key partners weekly to discuss the latest situation. Water Minister Emma Hardy chaired the National Drought Group, setting clear expectations for water companies to minimise leakage and follow their drought plans. https: 4K views · 7 likes · 6 reposts · 13 replies 28 Aug 2026 Residents in Kidlington will no longer have to live alongside one of the country's most notorious illegal waste sites. The work to clear this site is over, but our fight against waste crime is just getting started. https://t.co/81BOz8LAFD https://t.co/0nlpGOIYNs 4.6K views · 22 likes · 11 reposts · 6 replies 28 Aug 2026 @DefraGovUK All very nnice now how about protecting Nature by NOT licencing killing our birds and animals and protect our wild places by not allowing development on them 44 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Aug 2026 @DefraGovUK @angelaeagle I reckon the Xmas party will be a blast 84 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 30 Jul 2026 @DefraGovUK Does a single one of them even know the difference between hay and straw? 127 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 30 Jul 2026 We've welcomed our full ministerial team to Defra 👇 https://t.co/NJRUAF0tsP 8.6K views · 35 likes · 10 reposts · 33 replies 30 Jul 2026

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