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David Gray engagement report

@DavidGray - 178K followers on X

Measured over 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on October 17, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.019%
of 178K followers
Per impression
0.861%
4.0K views on a typical post
Reach
2.22%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
34
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.03/day
active 3% of days
Peak time
08:00 UTC
Friday

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 34 interactions against 178K followers, an engagement rate of 0.019%. Posts are seen about 4.0K times each, and 0.861% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.23% 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. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 126 interactions, about 3.7x its own typical post. Only 1 original post 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 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on October 17, 2026.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.019%, David Gray sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,152 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,152 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 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 percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 08:00 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.

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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Friday
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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link100% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 100% 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.
  • 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
  • Its average post runs 127 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

  • Nov 10, 20253.7x their median

    The One I Love, in 2025, live and acoustic from DG's studio. Watch now: https://t.co/grSvapgUZR https://t.co/891Nj1YdNj

    11011503.5K viewsView on X
  • Oct 3, 20253.1x their median

    Two decades have passed since Life In Slow Motion was first released, and this autumn it becomes available on vinyl for the very first time, in standard and deluxe editions. https://t.co/Sl2X4pJf4n

    8341522.9K viewsView on X
  • Mar 6, 20262.6x their median

    Listen to an exclusive preview of the new song “Alive”, recorded on the same piano and in the same room as where it was originally recorded at The Church Studios. Thanks to all at @ChurchStudios for allowing this to happen - it was great to be back making music there again. https://t.co/eDMujWq7rU

    758424.5K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 20252.4x their median

    Tickets for the 2026 Past & Present Tour dates in Ireland and the UK are on sale now https://t.co/AdoiwxiKKx https://t.co/SrAztyWHfR

    648907.7K viewsView on X
  • Sep 2, 20252.4x their median

    Picnic me Uppa! Back in London now but still buzzing about the weekend. Pre-gig excitement captured above. Amazing that we weren’t more ’hampered’ 😉 by the weather. One of the best feelings in the world when the crowds sing back, feel very blessed. 🙏🏻 https://t.co/6VMRfSEToE

    780203.8K viewsView on X
  • Nov 7, 20252.0x their median

    ‘Ain’t No Love’ recorded live from soundcheck at Riverside Theatre, Perth. Life in Slow Motion anniversary editions available to stream now. https://t.co/sCjW252W51 https://t.co/TxMclRbFTE

    5710202.6K viewsView on X
  • Nov 13, 20251.9x their median

    Two decades have passed since Life In Slow Motion first took flight, and it just landed on vinyl for the very first time. Listen to Ain't No Love (Demo) now, and pre-order the 20th anniversary edition of the album from the official store: https://t.co/nRixgPblGT https://t.co/t4PV7r6VFl

    536402.5K viewsView on X
  • Oct 7, 20251.7x their median

    The recording sessions for Life in Slow Motion commenced in the wake of some significant personal upheaval. The songs that arrived during those sessions seemed to carry a different weight, and be reflective of a move into deeper emotional waters. https://t.co/El2B2UwucI

    483612.4K viewsView on X
  • Sep 24, 20251.5x their median

    Life in Slow Motion, 20 years on and still building steam in its own glacial way….almost up to 33.3 rpm at this point. 🤔 https://t.co/dQRng0ucCv

    480312.5K viewsView on X
  • Jun 5, 2026

    The Past & Present tour starts up again next week, plus special guests! Tickets available at https://t.co/AdoiwxiKKx https://t.co/1OXoUa70Sh

    357604.7K 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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 34 interactions against 178K followers, an engagement rate of 0.019%. Posts are seen about 4.0K times each, and 0.861% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.23% 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. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 126 interactions, about 3.7x its own typical post. Only 1 original post 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 David Gray's engagement rate on X?
David Gray (@DavidGray) has an engagement rate of 0.019%, based on the median interactions across 1 original posts from the last 30 days against 177,568 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.019%, David Gray sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,152 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 @DavidGray have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @DavidGray post?
Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.03 posts per day across the measured window.

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