Jay McGuiness engagement report
@JayMcGuiness - 563K followers on X
Measured over 12 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 12 interactions against 563K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 12 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 3,829 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 17K times each, and 0.076% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.93% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.97 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 12 posts sampled, 67% carry an image or video and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.3K interactions, about 112x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #masterchef, #celebritymasterchef.
Measured over 12 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026. Recurring tags: #masterchef, #celebritymasterchef.
Compared with accounts its own size
Jay McGuiness's engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 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 6% 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 0.002%, Jay McGuiness sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,037 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 158.8% |
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 20:00 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 102K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 233K |
| Monday | 0% | 292K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 284K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 246K |
| Friday | -3% | 255K |
| Saturday | +3% | 229K |
Best tweets
- Feb 1, 2024112x their median
Well, she's out today! I look like I'm posing with a new car... & I feel at a loss for words. Thank you so much to those who have picked up a copy of Blood Flowers. I hope she takes you on a little whirlwind adventure. And did you know, she isn't an autobiography? Very lucky boy. https://t.co/OMEism86LP
- Aug 26, 202634x their median
🌟 Rest in peace Dolly 🌟 https://t.co/EdVoVlDhjS
- Jun 18, 202629x their median
Ancient 'Robin Hood' tree is dead, experts say https://t.co/Jvrp5slxRA
- May 24, 202628x their median
Dang Niall can really write a song huh? https://t.co/vp8rOIj60T
- Jul 19, 202619x their median
😭🇪🇸♥️💛♥️ vivaaaaaaa
- Apr 7, 202619x their median
So the president of the USA has gone beyond power mad? He’s obviously a thin-skinned warmongering wrongun, but I don’t understand how the structure that surrounds the presidency has allowed it to go this far? Is none of this criminal? If not, it should be. God help us all. 🫠 https://t.co/VFSt063779
- Jun 18, 202618x their median
Weird how running slowly turns from “I should do this to maintain fitness I guess…” to “This is a vital time that I cherish, time where I do some of my best pondering & processing, and is now an absolutely necessary ritual that I need to feel like myself.” Let’s run baby. https://t.co/eGoCOXe0Wg
- Aug 19, 202617x their median
Thought loading … https://t.co/wSHiO7THZ4
- Jul 19, 202616x their median
LET’S GOOOOOOOO #VivaEspaña https://t.co/Tmab5JcIyP
- Mar 1, 202616x their median
Off we go! 🌊🧜♀️ https://t.co/7Ubx8XlrIg
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 12 interactions against 563K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 12 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 3,829 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 17K times each, and 0.076% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.93% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.97 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 12 posts sampled, 67% carry an image or video and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.3K interactions, about 112x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #masterchef, #celebritymasterchef.
- What is Jay McGuiness's engagement rate on X?
- Jay McGuiness (@JayMcGuiness) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 12 original posts from the last 30 days against 563,023 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, Jay McGuiness sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,037 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 @JayMcGuiness have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 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 @JayMcGuiness post?
- Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.97 posts per day across the measured window.