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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

Per follower
1.10%
of 460K followers
Per impression
1.63%
309K views on a typical post
Reach
67.5%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
5.0K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.109%
337 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.33/day
active 23% of days
Peak time
13:00 UTC
Thursday

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%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,956 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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.

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: 13:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 13:00 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 video57% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link57% 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

    10K1.8K29962586K viewsView on X
  • 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

    7.1K2.9K3311271.2M viewsView on X
  • 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

    5.8K3.0K173133375K viewsView on X
  • 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

    5.9K1.8K10443324K viewsView on X
  • 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

    5.2K2.2K7385318K viewsView on X
  • 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

    5.0K2.1K7288433K viewsView on X
  • 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

    5.6K1.2K4931309K viewsView on X
  • 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

    4.1K1.7K16794618K viewsView on X
  • 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

    3.9K1.1K6824119K viewsView on X
  • 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

    3.7K1.1K8594493K 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 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.

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