Bear Grylls OBE engagement report
@BearGrylls - 1.4M followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 492 interactions against 1.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.034%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 53% of 20,444 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 45K times each, and 1.08% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.17% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 48% carry an image or video and 10% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 35x its own typical post.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Bear Grylls OBE's engagement rate beats 53% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 50% 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 0.034%, Bear Grylls OBE sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,694 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.677% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 48% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 10% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 48% 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.
- 10% 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 157 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below the same accounts' other posts.
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
- Jul 27, 202635x 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, 202617x 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
- Sep 2, 202611x their median
95% of the battles you'll face in life are fought in your head. Train there first.
- Aug 30, 202611x 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, 202611x their median
I've prayed some pretty ragged prayers over the years. God has never once needed them tidy.
- Sep 25, 20268.5x their median
I mean wow. Troops engaged in gun battles with the enemy every night and every day. Night after night. Week after week. Month after month (sometimes for years). Some people fail to realise that we sleep safely in our beds at night because these men and woman are constantly engaged in preventing attacks against this country. We should be focused on the sacrifices and their service not whether they swear at each other. We definitely shouldn’t compare their extraordinary roll to other professions.⬇️
- Jul 31, 20267.6x 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.
- Oct 8, 20266.8x their median
I've prayed some pretty ragged prayers over the years. God has never once needed them tidy.
- Sep 5, 20266.3x their median
I’ve learned to listen to the quietest person in the room. They’re often the ones who see what everyone else misses. Loud doesn’t mean right.
- Aug 24, 20266.3x their median
I have made every serious mistake of my life in a hurry. Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.
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 492 interactions against 1.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.034%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 53% of 20,444 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 45K times each, and 1.08% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.17% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 48% carry an image or video and 10% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 35x its own typical post.
- What is Bear Grylls OBE's engagement rate on X?
- Bear Grylls OBE (@BearGrylls) has an engagement rate of 0.034%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,432,497 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.034%, Bear Grylls OBE sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,694 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 53% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.43 posts per day across the measured window.