Bear Grylls OBE engagement report
@BearGrylls - 1.4M followers on X
Measured over 35 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 784 interactions against 1.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.055%. Measured over 35 original posts, its engagement rate beats 63% 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 47K times each, and 1.65% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.31% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 35 posts sampled, 9% carry an image or video and 20% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 22x its own typical post.
Measured over 35 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Bear Grylls OBE's engagement rate beats 63% 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 65% 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 0.055%, Bear Grylls OBE sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 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 | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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 27, 202622x their median
I failed SAS Selection the first time. One hundred and twenty men started. Four finished. I was not one of them. I went back six months later and passed. Going back was hard. However, in life, it's often that the second try is needed to get to the good stuff. Never give up. https://t.co/DdkZAFAUE1
- Jul 29, 202611x their median
My father was alive when I reached the top of Everest. He died not long after. But not before I told him he had climbed every step with me. I still believe he is with me on every adventure since. https://t.co/bZjwwPErPi
- Aug 30, 20266.8x their median
The man who died next to Jesus had nothing. No baptism. No communion. No confirmation. No speaking in tongues. No mission trip. No volunteering. No financial gifts. No church clothes. He couldn't even bend his knees to pray. Nails through his wrists meant no folded hands. No sinner's prayer crossed his lips. No altar call for a dying criminal. He was naked. Bleeding. Worthy of death under the law. Jesus didn't remove his pain. Didn't heal his broken body. Didn't silence the crowd mocking them both. Didn't bring him down from that cross. The thief had no testimony to share. No before-and-after transformation story. No time to prove his faith was real. No chance to clean up his life. Just a dying breath used to say: "Lord, remember me." And Jesus blood running down His face Turned to this worthless criminal and promised: "Today shalt thou be with me in paradise." No theologian's spin needed. No brilliant sermon required. No worship team or mood lighting. No haze machines or hip pastor. No coffee bar in the lobby. No small group sign-ups. Just a naked man dying on wood. Unable to move. Unable to serve. Unable to give. Unable to perform. Unable to impress. Unable to earn. All he could do was believe. Believe that the bloodied man next to him Was who He claimed to be. That was it. That was everything. He entered paradise the same hour as Christ. Not because of what he did. Because of who Jesus is. This criminal understood in his final moments What religious men spend lifetimes missing: Salvation isn't in your performance. It's in His promise. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." A thief. A cross. A Savior. A promise. THAT IS ENOUGH. ---------------------------------- Photo credit: https://t.co/i4iVEJzT3M
- Aug 5, 20266.7x their median
I've prayed some pretty ragged prayers over the years. God has never once needed them tidy.
- Jul 31, 20264.8x their median
I failed publicly. Loudly. In front of everyone who believed in me. And the world did not end. That was the most important thing I have ever learned.
- Aug 24, 20263.9x their median
I have made every serious mistake of my life in a hurry. Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.
- Aug 28, 20263.3x their median
Start before you are ready. You will never be ready.
- Aug 30, 20262.9x their median
Rich people buy time. Poor people buy stuff. Ambitious people buy skills. Survivors master their mind.
- Jul 30, 20262.8x their median
I always spend the five minutes before an expedition completely alone. On my knees. Five words: "I cannot do this alone. Help me." https://t.co/tdzsv740H0
- Aug 6, 20262.4x their median
Almost every good thing in my life turned up after something had gone badly wrong first. Worth remembering when you're going through the tough bit.
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 784 interactions against 1.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.055%. Measured over 35 original posts, its engagement rate beats 63% 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 47K times each, and 1.65% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.31% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 35 posts sampled, 9% carry an image or video and 20% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 22x its own typical post.
- What is Bear Grylls OBE's engagement rate on X?
- Bear Grylls OBE (@BearGrylls) has an engagement rate of 0.055%, based on the median interactions across 35 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,436,081 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.055%, Bear Grylls OBE sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 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 @BearGrylls have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 63% 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 @BearGrylls post?
- Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.3 posts per day across the measured window.