The Grayzone engagement report
@TheGrayzoneNews - 460K followers on X
Measured over 7 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 7 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.
A typical post picks up 5.0K interactions against 460K followers, an engagement rate of 1.10%. Posts are seen about 309K times each, and 1.63% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 67.2% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.33 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 7 posts sampled, 57% carry an image or video and 57% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 12K interactions, about 2.4x its own typical post. Only 7 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
Measured over 7 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 1.10%, The Grayzone sits above the 75th percentile of the 204,956 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the top 25% band, which runs 0.678% to 2.55%.
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 13:00 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% | 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 | 57% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 57% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 57% 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.
- 57% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 267 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
- Jul 20, 20262.4x their median
Piers Morgan demanded Max Blumenthal say “one bad thing” about the “Iranian regime” Blumenthal refused on the grounds that his government is slaughtering Iranian children When he challenged Morgan to condemn phone hacking and call Britain a “regime,” he ended the interview https://t.co/u3AM97XkTj
- Jul 14, 20262.1x their median
Under Israeli pressure, US seizes Max Blumenthal's devices on return from reporting trip to Iran Blumenthal was targeted with smears by an Israeli doxxing outfit and Laura Loomer when he arrived in Iran to report on Ali Khamenei’s funeral and the war https://t.co/7PkYhEipDs
- Aug 1, 20261.8x their median
Leaked emails show MI5 directors secretly lobbying for the UK govt to label the IRGC a terrorist entity, and for the UK to adopt the repressive National Security Act These leaks expose how the MI5 influences Downing Street and hypes non-existent threats https://t.co/E2O8f27pkr
- Jul 31, 20261.6x their median
A federal court granted discovery in Max Blumenthal's lawsuit against the Trump admin, and called the seizure of his phones a violation of his Fourth Amendment rights The judge framed the case as part of Trump's wider assault on press freedom https://t.co/UZjjQJHrM6
- Sep 22, 20261.5x their median
Max Blumenthal tells Tucker about crimes exposed in the new film NAZA: “Israeli intelligence hacked into the phones of young girls in Gaza to determine when their fathers would come home. Then they would order an airstrike on their homes and listen to the girls burn alive” https://t.co/nIE9gk6j6C
- Sep 17, 2026
Robert Kraft has played a central role in recruiting athletes, entertainers and influencers as assets for Israel He’s also a high-level member of the Epstein class implicated in sex crimes @MaxBlumenthal explains how Kraft’s insidious influence goes beyond canceling Macklemore https://t.co/Eu2VLJDRap
- Sep 21, 2026
Tucker Carlson tells Max Blumenthal how he witnessed Israeli mega-donor Miriam Adelson "blow past" the security check at Trump's inauguration "I remember seeing [Adelson] sitting right behind Trump and thinking, we're gonna have a war with Iran," Blumenthal reflected https://t.co/ugOD9tyW7O
- Jun 19, 20262.1x their median
The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal visits the Wall of Tears in Dearborn, Michigan This heart-rending visual display memorializes the over 18,500 children killed by the Israeli military in the besieged Gaza Strip between October 7, 2023 and July 2025 Blumenthal reads the names and ages of several of these children, and places their lives in the broader context of Gaza's occupation, siege and genocide at the hands of the state of Israel
- Jul 5, 2026
Max Blumenthal reports from Tehran at the site of the assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, where on February 28, the US and Israeli executed the elder statesman and many of his family members via airstrike — including his 14-month-old granddaughter. https://t.co/I9c2148Clb
- Sep 10, 2026
Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA sponsored by Israeli govt-aligned outfit, leaked contract shows Max Blumenthal reports that a year after Charlie Kirk’s killing, his org has buried his criticism of Israel to maintain support from a group linked to the Israeli state https://t.co/O2rRBPHDiu
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 5.0K interactions against 460K followers, an engagement rate of 1.10%. Posts are seen about 309K times each, and 1.63% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 67.2% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.33 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 7 posts sampled, 57% carry an image or video and 57% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 12K interactions, about 2.4x its own typical post. Only 7 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
- What is The Grayzone's engagement rate on X?
- The Grayzone (@TheGrayzoneNews) has an engagement rate of 1.10%, based on the median interactions across 7 original posts from the last 30 days against 459,666 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 1.10%, The Grayzone sits above the 75th percentile of the 204,956 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 @TheGrayzoneNews have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @TheGrayzoneNews post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.33 posts per day across the measured window.