Dire Straits 🎸 engagement report
@DireStraits77 - 94K followers on X
Measured over 45 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 269 interactions against 94K followers, an engagement rate of 0.295%. Measured over 45 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% 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 4.0K times each, and 6.71% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.29% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 45 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 7.9K interactions, about 29x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #markknopfler, #direstraits, #fender.
Measured over 45 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026. Recurring tags: #markknopfler, #direstraits, #fender.
Compared with accounts its own size
Dire Straits 🎸's engagement rate beats 70% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 91% 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 0.295%, Dire Straits 🎸 sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,676 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.679%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.679% |
| 90th percentile | 2.56% |
| 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 19:00 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% | 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 | 96% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 4% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 96% 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.
- 4% 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 291 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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
- Aug 16, 202629x their median
There is No Way to describe this masterpiece ❤️ https://t.co/5DrdOwfGaA
- Jul 21, 202627x their median
Dire Straits fans, this is my labor of love. For 17 years I’ve carried it alone, sharing this music with you. I turned off subscriptions because it was never about money. My only goal is to keep Mark Knopfler’s music alive. Please support the page. It means everything to me. 🎸❤️ https://t.co/CcSdn6nY6J
- Aug 25, 20264.1x their median
As I always say, I am not perfect, but Dire Straits’ music is, and always will be, perfect till the end of time. Carpe diem, my dear fans :) Good night 👋 Here is a Perfect song 🫶 🎼Private Investigations ❤️❤️❤️ https://t.co/WQAulvLnwj
- Aug 31, 20263.8x their median
What is your favorite song from “Brothers In Arms” album ?🎵 #OTD The album started a nine week run at the number one spot in the United States. :) https://t.co/OZcSdTe33o
- Sep 27, 20263.7x their median
Mark Knopfler and Kitty Aldridge with their daughter Isabella Knopfler at the African Cats premiere in London. 2012. https://t.co/kFzSDK3TYl
- Aug 31, 20263.0x their median
Do you want a great music post? This is it :) https://t.co/ddPBrYznOz
- Sep 26, 20262.8x their median
WOW 🎸 “That's the way you do it”🫶 https://t.co/1NYq6ENbnp
- Aug 26, 20262.7x their median
Who loves Dire Straits? 🎸❤️ The music, the memories, the magic… Some bands stay with you forever.. https://t.co/pkAju0RtHA
- Aug 28, 20262.7x their median
Dire Straits 🎼Sultans Of Swing ((Live)🎸🫶 https://t.co/SrwkS1ftyX
- Aug 31, 20262.4x their median
And girl, it looks so pretty to me Like it always did Oh, like the Spanish City to me When we were kids❤️❤️❤️ https://t.co/tfSSOhephs
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
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 269 interactions against 94K followers, an engagement rate of 0.295%. Measured over 45 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% 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 4.0K times each, and 6.71% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.29% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 45 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 7.9K interactions, about 29x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #markknopfler, #direstraits, #fender.
- What is Dire Straits 🎸's engagement rate on X?
- Dire Straits 🎸 (@DireStraits77) has an engagement rate of 0.295%, based on the median interactions across 45 original posts from the last 30 days against 93,511 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.295%, Dire Straits 🎸 sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,676 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 @DireStraits77 have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 70% 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 @DireStraits77 post?
- Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.1 posts per day across the measured window.