Douglas Murray engagement report
@DouglasKMurray - 1.2M followers on X
Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 2.4K interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.199%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 83% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 118K times each, and 2.05% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 9.69% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.5 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 22% carry an image or video and 78% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 15K interactions, about 6.3x its own typical post.
Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Douglas Murray's engagement rate beats 83% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 71% 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 0.199%, Douglas Murray sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.433%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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 03:00 UTC, and Thursday 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 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% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 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% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 98K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Jul 30, 20266.3x their median
A reminder that the book that explains all this is still available, in an updated version, wherever books are sold. https://t.co/cOJkByaull
- Aug 26, 20263.2x their median
Douglas Murray: The Death Penalty Is Cruel. Hamas Terrorists Deserve It. @TheFP https://t.co/YEjBfYkyIw
- Aug 20, 20262.9x their median
‘Middle England is finally waking up to the migrant crisis.’ My column in this week’s @spectator https://t.co/8KPD30ztx7
- Aug 19, 20262.5x their median
A second job isn’t a second job if you do it really fast. https://t.co/9rqq1E3qkZ
- Apr 9, 20261.9x their median
The conflict has widened. The explanation hasn’t changed. On Democracies and Death Cults is now out in paperback. To understand what many in the West still refuse to see, start here. https://t.co/cAWpxPXTjU https://t.co/lUnhogFINx
- Aug 7, 20261.6x their median
Ten years ago to the day. With the latest migrant arrivals on Lesbos. How times haven’t changed. https://t.co/QJjiC7odYu
- Jul 1, 2026
Douglas Murray: What Really Makes ‘Citizen Vigilante’ So Dangerous. @TheFP https://t.co/pxo8T1ai4m
- Jul 27, 2026
Douglas Murray: Europe Spins Another Islamist Attack. @TheFP https://t.co/ERClDU991B
- Aug 7, 2026
Douglas Murray: Tucker Carlson’s 10-Point Plan Is All About One Thing https://t.co/4u00RGv3VG
- Aug 27, 2026
‘Harry and Meghan deserve a second chance.’ My column in this week’s @spectator https://t.co/DIivg63f9B
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 2.4K interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.199%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 83% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 118K times each, and 2.05% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 9.69% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.5 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 22% carry an image or video and 78% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 15K interactions, about 6.3x its own typical post.
- What is Douglas Murray's engagement rate on X?
- Douglas Murray (@DouglasKMurray) has an engagement rate of 0.199%, based on the median interactions across 9 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,221,243 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.199%, Douglas Murray sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,654 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 @DouglasKMurray have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 83% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the top quarter for its size 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 @DouglasKMurray post?
- Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.5 posts per day across the measured window.