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Douglas Murray engagement report

@DouglasKMurray - 1.2M followers on X

Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.199%
of 1.2M followers
Per impression
2.05%
118K views on a typical post
Reach
9.69%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
2.4K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.063%
75 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.5/day
active 43% of days
Peak time
03:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 2.4K interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.199%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 83% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 118K times each, and 2.05% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 9.69% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.5 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 22% carry an image or video and 78% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 15K interactions, about 6.3x its own typical post.

Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Douglas Murray's engagement rate beats 83% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 71% 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 0.199%, Douglas Murray sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.433%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.433%
p902.10%
p99160.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,654 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,977 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.433%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.5%

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 03:00 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.

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: 03:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 03:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
02:00 UTC-3%50K
03:00 UTC-4%53K
04:00 UTC-6%43K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%48K
07:00 UTC-5%52K
08:00 UTC-4%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
10:00 UTC-2%72K
11:00 UTC-3%78K
12:00 UTC-2%86K
13:00 UTC-2%94K
14:00 UTC-4%97K
15:00 UTC-2%101K
16:00 UTC-3%98K
17:00 UTC-2%91K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-1%80K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-1%57K
23:00 UTC-2%52K
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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Thursday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%231K
Monday0%288K
Tuesday-2%278K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%245K
Friday-3%253K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Jul 30, 20266.3x their median

    A reminder that the book that explains all this is still available, in an updated version, wherever books are sold. https://t.co/cOJkByaull

    13K1.6K376841.1M viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20263.2x their median

    Douglas Murray: The Death Penalty Is Cruel. Hamas Terrorists Deserve It. @TheFP https://t.co/YEjBfYkyIw

    6.7K77126831118K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20262.9x their median

    ‘Middle England is finally waking up to the migrant crisis.’ My column in this week’s @spectator https://t.co/8KPD30ztx7

    6.1K86411324118K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20262.5x their median

    A second job isn’t a second job if you do it really fast. https://t.co/9rqq1E3qkZ

    5.0K84729243117K viewsView on X
  • Apr 9, 20261.9x their median

    The conflict has widened. The explanation hasn’t changed. On Democracies and Death Cults is now out in paperback. To understand what many in the West still refuse to see, start here. https://t.co/cAWpxPXTjU https://t.co/lUnhogFINx

    3.4K86525830264K viewsView on X
  • Aug 7, 20261.6x their median

    Ten years ago to the day. With the latest migrant arrivals on Lesbos. How times haven’t changed. https://t.co/QJjiC7odYu

    3.6K145852185K viewsView on X
  • Jul 1, 2026

    Douglas Murray: What Really Makes ‘Citizen Vigilante’ So Dangerous. @TheFP https://t.co/pxo8T1ai4m

    2.8K25625216316K viewsView on X
  • Jul 27, 2026

    Douglas Murray: Europe Spins Another Islamist Attack. @TheFP https://t.co/ERClDU991B

    2.4K46934594K viewsView on X
  • Aug 7, 2026

    Douglas Murray: Tucker Carlson’s 10-Point Plan Is All About One Thing https://t.co/4u00RGv3VG

    2.1K21913221306K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 2026

    ‘Harry and Meghan deserve a second chance.’ My column in this week’s @spectator https://t.co/DIivg63f9B

    368281.5K49238K 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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 2.4K interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.199%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 83% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 118K times each, and 2.05% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 9.69% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.5 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 22% carry an image or video and 78% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 15K interactions, about 6.3x its own typical post.

What is Douglas Murray's engagement rate on X?
Douglas Murray (@DouglasKMurray) has an engagement rate of 0.199%, based on the median interactions across 9 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,221,243 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.199%, Douglas Murray sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,654 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 @DouglasKMurray have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 83% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the top quarter for its size 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 @DouglasKMurray post?
Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.5 posts per day across the measured window.

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