G. K. Chesterton engagement report
@GKCdaily - 158K followers on X
Measured over 41 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 22, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 72 interactions against 158K followers, an engagement rate of 0.046%. Measured over 41 original posts, its engagement rate beats 40% 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 4.9K times each, and 1.48% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.09% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 41 posts sampled, 20% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 359x its own typical post.
Measured over 41 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 22, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
G. K. Chesterton's engagement rate beats 40% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 52% 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 0.046%, G. K. Chesterton sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,048 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 | 0.678% |
| 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 23:00 UTC, and Saturday 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 | 0% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 0% 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.
- 0% 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 234 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
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
- Sep 26, 2022359x their median
Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.
- Sep 18, 20264.7x their median
The thesis of Mr. Belloc's book "Europe and the Faith" is sufficiently simple; that Catholicism is the soul of Europe, and Europe will become Catholic or die.
- Sep 20, 20262.8x their median
Many great men, many men in the grand style, have hated Christianity; as did Gibbon and Nietzsche. Julian hated it as soon as it existed; we may almost say that Lucretius hated it before it existed. For if Virgil was a Christian before Christ, surely Lucretius was an Anti-Christian before anyone had thought of Anti-Christ.
- Sep 17, 20262.3x their median
Nietzsche was a man who tried to be a mood. Every man who tries to be a mood, instead of a mind, is necessarily narrow. That is why most of the modern moralists are notably narrow. Such a man stands for one movement of revolt, or reaction, or refusal, or whatever it may be. But the test of it is that he is always deficient in something else that sane men have, such as laughter, or compassion, or conservative sentiment, or what not.
- Sep 19, 20262.0x their median
The destruction of the convents went along with the decline of the guilds, the rise of the squires, the capitalism that is culminating in the Servile State. And just as the destruction of the cloister was only to the advantage of the aristocrats, so the destruction of the hearth is only to the advantage of the plutocrats.
- Sep 17, 20261.9x their median
I will back poor old Nietzsche, at least, to last a great deal longer than Marx. Nietzsche is at least literature, if he is nothing else; and literature is not altered every six years.
- Sep 22, 20261.8x their median
It is because we have so little revolt that we have so much anarchy. Anybody can play the bully; and one brigand can hold up a crowd of such very tame travellers.
- Sep 19, 20261.8x their median
There is no evidence whatever that the barbarians ever invented anything better while they were outside Christendom; but there is abundance of evidence that they could invent things quite as good as soon as they were inside it.
- Sep 19, 20261.6x their median
By deserting the small groups of guild and cloister and family, people have been destroyed in detail by the machine of Big Business.
- Sep 19, 20261.5x their median
There has existed as a historical fact a certain type of culture, which for the greater part of history was Catholic, and even before that period was Roman. Whatever we call it we certainly originally came from it, even if we call ourselves Protestant or imagine ourselves Teutonic.
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 72 interactions against 158K followers, an engagement rate of 0.046%. Measured over 41 original posts, its engagement rate beats 40% 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 4.9K times each, and 1.48% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.09% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 41 posts sampled, 20% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 359x its own typical post.
- What is G. K. Chesterton's engagement rate on X?
- G. K. Chesterton (@GKCdaily) has an engagement rate of 0.046%, based on the median interactions across 41 original posts from the last 30 days against 157,592 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.046%, G. K. Chesterton sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,048 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 @GKCdaily have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 40% 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 @GKCdaily post?
- Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.93 posts per day across the measured window.