EnglishGary Lineker is on Twitter (X) as @GaryLineker, with 8,007,945 followers and 49,569 posts. It lost 2,605 followers in the last 7 days and 13,116 in the last 30 days. It has been on X since January 2012, an account age of 14 years.
Insights
Over the last 30 days @GaryLineker lost 13,116 followers (-0.16%). In the last 7 days the change was -2,605 followers. Its strongest tracked day added +83 followers on Jul 29, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 1 original post 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 1.4K interactions against 8.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.018%. Posts are seen about 272K times each, and 0.516% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.40% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.03 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 3% of days saw any activity at all.
Measured over 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
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Best tracked day: +83 followers on 2026-07-29.
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Bio
Once kicked a ball about. Now talk about kicking a ball about. The Rest Is Football @restisfootball @Goalhangerpods ..Instagram . Retweets are not endorsements
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- Gary Lineker joined Twitter (X) in January 2012. The @GaryLineker account is 14 years old. Searches for Gary Lineker age often mean a personal age, which we do not publish. The figure here is the account age only.