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Paul van Dyk engagement report

@PAULVANDYK - 957K followers on X

Measured over 26 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.017%
of 957K followers
Per impression
1.28%
12K views on a typical post
Reach
1.29%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
158
interactions (median)
Saved
0.02%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.87/day
active 73% of days
Peak time
04:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 158 interactions against 957K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 26 original posts, its engagement rate beats 42% of 3,758 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 12K times each, and 1.28% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.29% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.87 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 26 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 19% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.3K interactions, about 15x its own typical post.

Measured over 26 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Paul van Dyk's engagement rate beats 42% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 57% 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 0.017%, Paul van Dyk sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.

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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 04:00 UTC, and Friday 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: 04:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 04:00 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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Friday
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

  • Aug 20, 202615x their median

    Mexico, I’m on my way. ✈️ Not here for a long time, but definitely for the good times. 🇲🇽🔥 https://t.co/jv2nZo56Yb

    2.1K13751535K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20265.5x their median

    OK.. last one, I promise. We just had too much fun not to share it with you! Paul van Dyk 🤝 Aly & Fila 🔥 Sunrise Festival https://t.co/oJUKGQU44V

    7728517130K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20264.0x their median

    Paul van Dyk 🤝 Acid = 🔥 https://t.co/e3HRKLpOgR

    5486515220K viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 20262.9x their median

    Just saw a video of someone asking Ricky Gervais, what's something small in your daily life that gives you genuine joy these days. His answer: dogs. I felt that. What's yours? https://t.co/7JVw513fSl

    4102129218K viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 20262.9x their median

    MEXICO, I’M COMING BACK. 🇲🇽 Two very special nights. Two cities. And I already know the energy is going to be incredible. AUG 21 Querétaro · Qiu Club (final 50 tix) AUG 22 Mexico City · Mesones 72 (sold out) Nos vemos muy pronto. 🔥 https://t.co/0RHPM8izFf

    399505115K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 20262.9x their median

    I guess B2B sets just weren’t made for reels 😂 Paul van Dyk + Aly & Fila = way too much trance energy to fit into 9:16. So… let’s hope you were at Sunrise Festival to experience the full power in person. If not, consider this your sign to catch the next one. https://t.co/7pRFnLRQCz

    393556020K viewsView on X
  • Jul 8, 20262.4x their median

    Legends aren't born. They are made - by YOU! Vote now for Paul van Dyk in @DJmag's Top 100 DJs poll #top100djs https://t.co/qDZGB5skNu https://t.co/qdcl26ASkh

    23712512315K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 20262.2x their median

    Nature One: My House is Your House 🏠⚡️ But when this one drops… YOUR HOUSE IS MINE. https://t.co/4xCpyKabAR

    303357218K viewsView on X
  • Jul 23, 20262.1x their median

    Throwback Thursday to The Politics of Dancing 2. Which track from the mix album still gives you goosebumps? https://t.co/FRC6E3Lxoo https://t.co/ZkQUllBmqd

    2753517124K viewsView on X
  • Aug 7, 20262.0x their median

    Es war wie immer wieder ein Fest… Danke @NatureOne! https://t.co/wmyKQOdoFs

    287282220K 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 158 interactions against 957K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 26 original posts, its engagement rate beats 42% of 3,758 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 12K times each, and 1.28% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.29% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.87 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 26 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 19% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.3K interactions, about 15x its own typical post.

What is Paul van Dyk's engagement rate on X?
Paul van Dyk (@PAULVANDYK) has an engagement rate of 0.017%, based on the median interactions across 26 original posts from the last 30 days against 957,358 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.017%, Paul van Dyk sits above the 25th 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 @PAULVANDYK have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 42% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 @PAULVANDYK post?
Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.87 posts per day across the measured window.

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