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GB News engagement report

@GBNEWS - 972K followers on X

Measured over 99 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.007%
of 972K followers
Per impression
0.665%
11K views on a typical post
Reach
1.13%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
73
interactions (median)
Saved
0.036%
4 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.3/day
active 7% of days
Peak time
21:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 73 interactions against 972K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 99 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% of 3,809 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 11K times each, and 0.665% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.13% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 99 posts sampled, 65% carry an image or video and 36% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.9K interactions, about 26x its own typical post.

Measured over 99 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

GB News's engagement rate beats 30% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 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 40% 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 0.007%, GB News sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,852 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.435%
p902.10%
p99159.8%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,852 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,564 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.435%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile159.8%

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 21:00 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.

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: 21:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 21:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
02:00 UTC-3%50K
03:00 UTC-4%54K
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%79K
12:00 UTC-2%87K
13:00 UTC-3%95K
14:00 UTC-4%98K
15:00 UTC-2%101K
16:00 UTC-4%99K
17:00 UTC-2%91K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-1%80K
20:00 UTC-1%75K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-2%58K
23:00 UTC-2%52K
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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%232K
Monday0%290K
Tuesday-2%281K
Wednesday-1%252K
Thursday-2%245K
Friday-3%254K
Saturday+3%228K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 26, 202626x their median

    ‘It will expose the Labour Party.’ Political commentator Maajid Nawaz reflects on why the government are refusing to release migrant crime data. https://t.co/mttUo2FtgF

    1.4K412602158K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 202618x their median

    'If they're having to teach men from different cultures not to rape children, is that an admission we are importing dangerous men?' @MartinDaubney asks Former UK Director General of UK Border Force about a new Home Office guide for migrants on avoiding sexual assault in Britain. https://t.co/TIwSiZdU1P

    1.0K248541667K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 202618x their median

    EXCLUSIVE: 'Kangaroo court’ investigating Nigel Farage includes refugee charity trustee and Brexit critic. https://t.co/i4VLcwIjSG

    844368832429K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 202615x their median

    Rhiannon Whyte's sister shares fury after Labour blocks release of migrant crime data: ‘She’d be outraged!’ https://t.co/KdBWOGOUrp

    856212221016K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 202614x their median

    Nigel Farage eats into Tory vote as Reform's surge leaves Andy Burnham bounce on brink, poll shows https://t.co/QbjckbLBlZ

    7661408710102K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 202613x their median

    ‘The Home Office has just admitted that it knows they’re importing rapists and paedophiles.’ @PatrickChristys is in shock at the government producing a pamphlet for illegal migrants, instructing them on ‘how not to rape women and children’. https://t.co/5ZUNO990ud

    658206421816K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 202613x their median

    ‘If you need that pamphlet, I don’t want you anywhere near my country.’ Director of Popular Conservatives Mark Littlewood reacts to a Home Office document that tells asylum seekers that sex with children is illegal. https://t.co/lVe1a8Y1k6

    76912716312K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20269.9x their median

    ‘How dare Labour hide the truth!’ @PatrickChristys asks why the government has failed to release the data on crimes committed by migrants. https://t.co/msw80t087s

    56213621511K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20269.9x their median

    🚨 EXCLUSIVE 'Kangaroo court!' @MartinDaubney reacts as it is revealed the committee investigating Nigel Farage's finances includes a trustee for a charity supporting migrants and campaigning against deportations. https://t.co/qiL2UcdkiG

    50616939715K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20269.8x their median

    ‘I am disgusted.’ Chairman of Migration Watch UK Alp Mehmet reacts to a Home Office document that tells asylum seekers that sex with children is illegal. https://t.co/5TnnVgfpjJ

    56212719416K 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 73 interactions against 972K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 99 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% of 3,809 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 11K times each, and 0.665% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.13% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 99 posts sampled, 65% carry an image or video and 36% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.9K interactions, about 26x its own typical post.

What is GB News's engagement rate on X?
GB News (@GBNEWS) has an engagement rate of 0.007%, based on the median interactions across 99 original posts from the last 30 days against 971,873 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.007%, GB News sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,852 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 @GBNEWS have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 30% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 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 @GBNEWS post?
Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.3 posts per day across the measured window.

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