Gary Lineker engagement report
@GaryLineker - 8.0M followers on X
Measured over 2 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 2 original posts 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 2.0K interactions against 8.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.025%. Posts are seen about 943K times each, and 0.212% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 11.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.17 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 2 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.6K interactions, about 4.3x its own typical post. Only 2 original posts 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 2 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.025%, Gary Lineker sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,378 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.432% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 161.0% |
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 16:00 UTC, and Sunday 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 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% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 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% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Jul 19, 20264.3x their median
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is joined by Gary Lineker for the Morning Pitch ahead of the World Cup final. Lineker: "When you score at a WC, it's an explosion of emotion. I imagine it must feel like hearing that the rent guidelines board has decided to freeze rent for two years." https://t.co/U23JZyhVuZ
- Jul 6, 20261.7x their median
🗣️ @GaryLineker: "It's an appalling decision from FIFA." Gary & Brad Friedel comment on Balogun's red card being overturned https://t.co/RK5LoGOpUd
- Jul 9, 20261.7x their median
Find someone who looks at you the way @MayaJama looks at me. Tomorrow on @RestIsFootball. https://t.co/Be78Gf1m2g
- Jun 23, 2026
How many primes can one player have? 😭🐐 https://t.co/v1nUS02hcK
- Aug 5, 2026
BREAKING: Gianni Infantino & Mattias Grafström write in leaked letter: "With the project withdrawn, FIFA will no longer tolerate any attacks on its integrity, good governance and due process and will take all necessary measures to protect and safeguard its name and reputation." https://t.co/rGKcW0zFjP
- May 11, 2026
🗣️ @AlanShearer: “We see something like that every week!” Will VAR decide the title? 👀 https://t.co/V17mRzee7S
- Apr 14, 2026
'The demand for it is huge... There isn't anything like this in the North East' Former England and Newcastle United striker Alan Shearer told #BBCBreakfast about the next ambition for the Centre he created 20 years ago to help people with complex disabilities and their families https://t.co/ocxvEgXr6c
- Jul 6, 2026
https://t.co/GevTqHPvk3
- Jun 10, 2026
Big Meeks is calling on Kane for just a small favour...👀😂 https://t.co/rxfw6nBV8D
- May 13, 2026
Celtic were awarded a penalty following this incident https://t.co/cHfOipq7D9
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 2.0K interactions against 8.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.025%. Posts are seen about 943K times each, and 0.212% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 11.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.17 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 2 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.6K interactions, about 4.3x its own typical post. Only 2 original posts 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 Gary Lineker's engagement rate on X?
- Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) has an engagement rate of 0.025%, based on the median interactions across 2 original posts from the last 30 days against 8,028,715 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.025%, Gary Lineker sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,378 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 @GaryLineker have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @GaryLineker post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.17 posts per day across the measured window.