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Paul van Dyk engagement report

@PAULVANDYK - 957K followers on X

Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 17, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.021%
of 957K followers
Per impression
2.55%
7.7K views on a typical post
Reach
0.81%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
197
interactions (median)
Saved
0.013%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.03/day
active 83% of days
Peak time
04:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 197 interactions against 957K followers, an engagement rate of 0.021%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 46% of 15,519 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 7.7K times each, and 2.55% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.807% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 35% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.3K interactions, about 12x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #edcthailand, #paulvandyk, #pvdontour.

Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 17, 2026. Recurring tags: #edcthailand, #paulvandyk, #pvdontour.

Compared with accounts its own size

Paul van Dyk's engagement rate beats 46% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 76% 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 0.021%, Paul van Dyk sits above the 10th percentile of the 156,148 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.022%.

p100.003%
p250.022%
p50 (median)0.127%
p750.604%
p902.32%
p9983.3%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 156,148 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 26,016 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 percentile0.003%
25th percentile0.022%
50th percentile0.127%
75th percentile0.604%
90th percentile2.32%
99th percentile83.3%

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 04:00 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.

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: 04:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 04:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link35% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 100% 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.
  • 35% 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 183 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

  • Aug 20, 202612x their median

    Mexico, I’m on my way. ✈️ Not here for a long time, but definitely for the good times. 🇲🇽🔥 https://t.co/jv2nZo56Yb

    2.1K14151536K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20264.4x their median

    OK.. last one, I promise. We just had too much fun not to share it with you! Paul van Dyk 🤝 Aly & Fila 🔥 Sunrise Festival https://t.co/oJUKGQU44V

    7718717130K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20263.2x their median

    Paul van Dyk 🤝 Acid = 🔥 https://t.co/e3HRKLpOgR

    5536915220K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 20262.8x their median

    Obligatory 1st day of autumn post 🍁🐔🍂 https://t.co/S3P8fRU4TR

    510329613K viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 20262.4x their median

    Just saw a video of someone asking Ricky Gervais, what's something small in your daily life that gives you genuine joy these days. His answer: dogs. I felt that. What's yours? https://t.co/7JVw513fSl

    4122229218K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 20262.3x their median

    POV: you stopped scrolling and started living. See you September 24th at @SHINE_Ibiza https://t.co/wXRGqUEIMl

    400496420K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 20262.3x their median

    I guess B2B sets just weren’t made for reels 😂 Paul van Dyk + Aly & Fila = way too much trance energy to fit into 9:16. So… let’s hope you were at Sunrise Festival to experience the full power in person. If not, consider this your sign to catch the next one. https://t.co/7pRFnLRQCz

    396566020K viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 20262.3x their median

    MEXICO, I’M COMING BACK. 🇲🇽 Two very special nights. Two cities. And I already know the energy is going to be incredible. AUG 21 Querétaro · Qiu Club (final 50 tix) AUG 22 Mexico City · Mesones 72 (sold out) Nos vemos muy pronto. 🔥 https://t.co/0RHPM8izFf

    399515115K viewsView on X
  • Jul 8, 20262.0x their median

    Legends aren't born. They are made - by YOU! Vote now for Paul van Dyk in @DJmag's Top 100 DJs poll #top100djs https://t.co/qDZGB5skNu https://t.co/qdcl26ASkh

    24513815316K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 20261.8x their median

    Nature One: My House is Your House 🏠⚡️ But when this one drops… YOUR HOUSE IS MINE. https://t.co/4xCpyKabAR

    306398218K 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.

Recurring topics

#edcthailand#paulvandyk#pvdontour#top100djs

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 197 interactions against 957K followers, an engagement rate of 0.021%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 46% of 15,519 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 7.7K times each, and 2.55% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.807% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 35% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.3K interactions, about 12x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #edcthailand, #paulvandyk, #pvdontour.

What is Paul van Dyk's engagement rate on X?
Paul van Dyk (@PAULVANDYK) has an engagement rate of 0.021%, based on the median interactions across 31 original posts from the last 30 days against 956,817 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.021%, Paul van Dyk sits above the 10th percentile of the 156,148 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 @PAULVANDYK have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 46% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 @PAULVANDYK post?
Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.03 posts per day across the measured window.

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