GB News engagement report
@GBNEWS - 972K followers on X
Measured over 99 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 73 interactions against 972K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 99 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% of 3,809 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 11K times each, and 0.665% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.13% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 99 posts sampled, 65% carry an image or video and 36% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.9K interactions, about 26x its own typical post.
Measured over 99 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
GB News's engagement rate beats 30% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 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 40% 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 0.007%, GB News sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,852 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 159.8% |
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 21:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 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% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 98K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
Best tweets
- Aug 26, 202626x their median
‘It will expose the Labour Party.’ Political commentator Maajid Nawaz reflects on why the government are refusing to release migrant crime data. https://t.co/mttUo2FtgF
- Aug 19, 202618x their median
'If they're having to teach men from different cultures not to rape children, is that an admission we are importing dangerous men?' @MartinDaubney asks Former UK Director General of UK Border Force about a new Home Office guide for migrants on avoiding sexual assault in Britain. https://t.co/TIwSiZdU1P
- Aug 19, 202618x their median
EXCLUSIVE: 'Kangaroo court’ investigating Nigel Farage includes refugee charity trustee and Brexit critic. https://t.co/i4VLcwIjSG
- Aug 26, 202615x their median
Rhiannon Whyte's sister shares fury after Labour blocks release of migrant crime data: ‘She’d be outraged!’ https://t.co/KdBWOGOUrp
- Aug 26, 202614x their median
Nigel Farage eats into Tory vote as Reform's surge leaves Andy Burnham bounce on brink, poll shows https://t.co/QbjckbLBlZ
- Aug 19, 202613x their median
‘The Home Office has just admitted that it knows they’re importing rapists and paedophiles.’ @PatrickChristys is in shock at the government producing a pamphlet for illegal migrants, instructing them on ‘how not to rape women and children’. https://t.co/5ZUNO990ud
- Aug 19, 202613x their median
‘If you need that pamphlet, I don’t want you anywhere near my country.’ Director of Popular Conservatives Mark Littlewood reacts to a Home Office document that tells asylum seekers that sex with children is illegal. https://t.co/lVe1a8Y1k6
- Aug 26, 20269.9x their median
‘How dare Labour hide the truth!’ @PatrickChristys asks why the government has failed to release the data on crimes committed by migrants. https://t.co/msw80t087s
- Aug 19, 20269.9x their median
🚨 EXCLUSIVE 'Kangaroo court!' @MartinDaubney reacts as it is revealed the committee investigating Nigel Farage's finances includes a trustee for a charity supporting migrants and campaigning against deportations. https://t.co/qiL2UcdkiG
- Aug 19, 20269.8x their median
‘I am disgusted.’ Chairman of Migration Watch UK Alp Mehmet reacts to a Home Office document that tells asylum seekers that sex with children is illegal. https://t.co/5TnnVgfpjJ
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 X accounts - escrow-protected
PlayerSells is an escrow marketplace for X accounts. Every deal is protected, with no middleman risk.
Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 73 interactions against 972K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 99 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% of 3,809 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 11K times each, and 0.665% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.13% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 99 posts sampled, 65% carry an image or video and 36% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.9K interactions, about 26x its own typical post.
- What is GB News's engagement rate on X?
- GB News (@GBNEWS) has an engagement rate of 0.007%, based on the median interactions across 99 original posts from the last 30 days against 971,873 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.007%, GB News sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,852 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 @GBNEWS have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 30% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 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 @GBNEWS post?
- Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.3 posts per day across the measured window.