Gulf News engagement report
@gulf_news - 1.6M followers on X
Measured over 327 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 2 interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 327 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% of 3,739 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 3.5K times each, and 0.057% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.222% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 11.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 327 posts sampled, 99% carry an image or video and 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.0K interactions, about 1490x its own typical post.
Measured over 327 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Gulf News's engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 4% 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 under 0.001%, Gulf News sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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% | 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 18, 20261490x their median
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- Aug 25, 2026505x their median
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- Aug 25, 2026300x their median
UAE leaders honour Prophet Mohammed’s birthday, sharing messages of mercy, compassion and tolerance as the nation marks a public holiday and long weekend. https://t.co/KkghSYzmzb https://t.co/PXjHiIP8zD
- Aug 18, 202684x their median
UAE detects two missiles from Iran; one falls in territorial waters Ministry says forces ready to safeguard sovereignty amid rising regional tensions https://t.co/iJPO17rCzp
- Aug 28, 202628x their median
UAE imposes Dh500,000 fines and immediate closure on unlicensed higher education institutions, with new rules protecting students’ academic and financial rights. https://t.co/FlIETM63Af https://t.co/kx2GZhDPdm
- Aug 18, 202625x their median
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Trump review cooperation and regional developments https://t.co/9lYNiUn0xu https://t.co/T7Pmb0OzUC
- Aug 18, 202624x their median
Iran warns of escalation as Hormuz crisis deepens, with US military gains reshaping a prolonged Middle East conflict and maritime security at risk. https://t.co/pe5OX1VL3k https://t.co/h0Oght5KWA
- Aug 19, 202621x their median
Hotel occupancy is expected to improve as international capacity returns for winter season https://t.co/Jq4zHEUEt3 https://t.co/zbZ8SgiI4K
- Aug 25, 202621x their median
Abu Dhabi opens three air-conditioned walking tracks, helping residents stay active, healthy and comfortable outdoors during the hot summer months. https://t.co/pBSLs0rlLP https://t.co/p6BUxU5eNg
- Aug 28, 202620x their median
More than 123,000 Emirati women work in the UAE private sector, holding most skilled and leadership positions as Emiratisation drives rapid workforce transformation. https://t.co/zcwqjm8HFS https://t.co/ia1LHil42E
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 interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 327 original posts, its engagement rate beats 2% of 3,739 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 3.5K times each, and 0.057% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.222% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 11.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 327 posts sampled, 99% carry an image or video and 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.0K interactions, about 1490x its own typical post.
- What is Gulf News's engagement rate on X?
- Gulf News (@gulf_news) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 327 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,573,572 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, Gulf News sits below the 10th 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 @gulf_news have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 2% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% 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 @gulf_news post?
- Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 11.33 posts per day across the measured window.