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Michael Gove engagement report

@michaelgove - 266K followers on X

Measured over 6 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 29, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.188%
of 266K followers
Per impression
1.15%
43K views on a typical post
Reach
16.3%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
500
interactions (median)
Saved
0.046%
20 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.2/day
active 50% of days
Peak time
08:00 UTC
Thursday

Early reading. We have captured 6 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 500 interactions against 266K followers, an engagement rate of 0.188%. Posts are seen about 43K times each, and 1.15% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 16.3% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 6 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 15K interactions, about 60x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #napoleon, #endingalzheimers, #napoleonicwars. Only 6 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 6 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 29, 2026. Recurring tags: #napoleon, #endingalzheimers, #napoleonicwars.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.188%, Michael Gove sits above the 50th percentile of the 218,501 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.149% to 0.705%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.149%
p750.705%
p902.63%
p9982.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 218,501 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 21,721 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.149%
75th percentile0.705%
90th percentile2.63%
99th percentile82.5%

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 08:00 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: 08:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 08:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%89K
01:00 UTC-2%90K
02:00 UTC-3%88K
03:00 UTC-4%94K
04:00 UTC-5%76K
05:00 UTC-4%75K
06:00 UTC-5%86K
07:00 UTC-5%93K
08:00 UTC-4%108K
09:00 UTC-4%124K
10:00 UTC-3%129K
11:00 UTC-3%141K
12:00 UTC-3%154K
13:00 UTC-3%167K
14:00 UTC-4%173K
15:00 UTC-2%176K
16:00 UTC-3%171K
17:00 UTC-3%159K
18:00 UTC-2%149K
19:00 UTC-2%141K
20:00 UTC-1%131K
21:00 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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 111%Busiest day: Thursday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Formats this account uses

Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video50% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link17% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 50% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
  • 17% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 274 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.

Best tweets

  • Sep 22, 202660x their median

    The English are a mongrel people, not an Aryan master race. https://t.co/xQ1YWBVJqS

    6.5K7236.4K1.7K4.9M viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202614x their median

    The best single encapsulation of why the Jason Arday scandal damages us all. https://t.co/IaZ8dS6RqP

    2.7K58910264175K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 20263.0x their median

    Personal news: Today I am really thrilled to get started at the Financial Times as a Senior Writer for the FT Weekend.

    6981356753K viewsView on X
  • Sep 6, 20262.6x their median

    There is life to be lived after stroke. Helping me this week is more WB Yeats and Lego. Keep sending me your requests for more poetry & Shakespeare. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams… Ps Get your blood pressure checked! #stroke #pilgrimsoul #strokeofluck https://t.co/bsT8qidq1W

    58334386153K viewsView on X
  • Sep 2, 20262.5x their median

    On behalf of former Defra secretaries everywhere can I say thank you to the wonderful people who have served as our PPS

    5763411773K viewsView on X
  • Sep 13, 20262.5x their median

    The Proclaimers are magnificent That’s pretty much my @scotonsunday column. https://t.co/Ey93cKHmoW https://t.co/syLnrmNSvb

    5298113328K viewsView on X
  • Sep 16, 20262.3x their median

    EXCL: Senior Green members have accused Zack Polanski of being a ‘genocide denier’ and ‘struggling to overcome Zionist indoctrination’. Activists have warned that Polanski's stance on Israel is dampening enthusiasm for the former hypnotist’s Holborn and St Pancras by-election campaign. A particular source of fury is Polanski’s position on a party conference motion declaring ‘Zionism is racism’. Animah Kosai, an East Midlands representative on the Green party council, wrote in a party WhatsApp chat: ‘The Muslim Vote. The pro Palestine activists. Both were a big part of why the Greens did well in 2024 GE. They will warn against any [Green member] who speaks against the motion. And that includes potential MPs like Zack.’

    347797179336K viewsView on X
  • Sep 6, 20261.9x their median

    I think education should be about what you can do, and not what you can’t do. Read my full piece in @theobserveruk where I set out my vision for reforming England's education system - from tackling the SEND crisis to reimagining what success looks like beyond exams. https://t.co/XWZhObtwj4

    103210357573K viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 2026

    My take on the Reform funding affair https://t.co/wAfAGRgnBA

    168392919143K viewsView on X
  • Sep 22, 2026

    The National is turning 12 soon, which is terrible news for a lot of people who have wanted it to fail very badly We are really proud of how we have developed in that time and we are excited for what comes next. But we need you! https://t.co/fSWcdnYy9V

    591776314K 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.

Recurring topics

#napoleon#endingalzheimers#napoleonicwars#softbigotry

The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 500 interactions against 266K followers, an engagement rate of 0.188%. Posts are seen about 43K times each, and 1.15% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 16.3% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 6 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 15K interactions, about 60x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #napoleon, #endingalzheimers, #napoleonicwars. Only 6 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 Michael Gove's engagement rate on X?
Michael Gove (@michaelgove) has an engagement rate of 0.188%, based on the median interactions across 6 original posts from the last 30 days against 266,125 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.188%, Michael Gove sits above the 50th percentile of the 218,501 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 @michaelgove have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @michaelgove post?
Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.2 posts per day across the measured window.

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