Darren Grimes engagement report
@darrengrimes - 491K followers on X
Measured over 30 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 21, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.4K interactions against 491K followers, an engagement rate of 0.279%. Measured over 30 original posts, its engagement rate beats 86% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 29K times each, and 4.80% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.82% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 30 posts sampled, 77% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 20K interactions, about 15x its own typical post.
Measured over 30 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 21, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Darren Grimes's engagement rate beats 86% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 89% 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 0.279%, Darren Grimes sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,048 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.678%.
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 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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 | 77% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 3% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 77% 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.
- 3% 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 297 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.
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
- Oct 14, 202615x their median
Love this woman in Boston! No hesitation in her Burnham condemnation! https://t.co/sQLsCYM9gK
- Aug 26, 202615x their median
PLEASE my friends ask yourself a simple question. Why would a government spend public money in court to stop the public seeing a migrant data spreadsheet? A think tank asked the Ministry of Justice for the figures on offences committed by foreign nationals between 2018 and 2024. The MoJ said no. The Information Commissioner looked at it and ordered the department to hand it over. That should have been the end of it. Ruling made, data released, argument had in the open like grown-ups. Instead, Burnham’s government is appealing. Lawyers, court time, your money, all deployed to keep a file shut that the regulator has already said belongs to you. And remember what this file is. Not a research project. Not some vast new collection exercise costing millions. It sits on the Police National Computer already. Denmark publishes this. Germany publishes this. Sweden publishes this. Somehow only in Britain is it a state secret. Victims have now written asking for it, like my friend Siobhan Whyte, whose daughter was murdered by a hotel migrant. People who were attacked, whose families were destroyed, are being told the numbers are too dangerous for them to see. Think about what a government has to believe about you to take that position.
- Aug 22, 202611x their median
Only in Britain could you fake your credentials, lecture students on white privilege to mask your own inadequacies, and still get a candlelit vigil from the cultural class.
- Aug 26, 202611x their median
59% of rapes in Sweden are committed by a migrant population of 20%. That’s why the Labour Government are DENYING you the TRUTH on migrant crime stats.
- Aug 25, 20269.1x their median
I don’t know about you, but adding millions of foreign nationals to our population and then telling voters that it hasn’t had an impact on our housing stock is what I’d call ‘insulting’ here. We’re not thick. https://t.co/IwO2deBZ9p
- Oct 15, 20268.6x their median
Finally, a rare outbreak of common sense on border policy. The mother of Henry Nowak’s killer, jailed for hiding her son’s knife, is reportedly facing deportation. Good. Helping a killer cover his tracks should come with consequences, not an indefinite welcome. Now let’s see it carried out. A deportation headline is welcome. An actual departure is better.
- Sep 14, 20268.2x their median
Suella Braverman is spot on. Ordinary British people concerned about public safety and crime in their communities aren't "far-right racists" — they're normal citizens who are sick to death of being ignored by an out-of-touch political establishment. Handing out polite leaflets to illegal migrants telling them to obey the law isn't a national security strategy, it's an utter joke. The government's priority should be protecting British women and children, not managing the sensibilities of people who shouldn't be here in the first place. Time to stop the patronising lecture cards, secure our borders, and put the safety of the British public first.
- Oct 20, 20268.0x their median
We hear about the far right morning, noon and night. So where's the wall-to-wall coverage of the far left? Ann Widdecombe is dead. Prosecutors say the man charged with her murder had an "extreme left-wing mindset" and was plotting against Nigel Farage too. France is on fire. Town halls torched, shops looted, coppers in hospital. And in Australia, an MP has lost her leg after an eco extremist allegedly rammed her. Twice.
- Aug 22, 20267.4x their median
Race baiting Labour Education Secretary blames racism for the Jason Arday affair. The pretend professor that told one of his unsuspecting students about their ‘white privilege’. He should never have been anywhere near Cambridge. Shame on you, Lucy Powell. https://t.co/mdb3Mp4pPJ
- Aug 25, 20266.7x their median
At around 9pm on 17 March 2024, on Otley Road in Headingley, he came up behind a woman in her thirties walking home from dinner and set about her with a broken bottle. Head, neck, chest. It was reported he tried to stab her more than thirty times. She is alive for one reason. A group of lads outside the Original Oak heard her scream and ran at him. Not the Home Office. Not the asylum system. Passers-by. He’s now been handed 25 years and a hybrid hospital order. The court heard he suffers catatonic schizophrenia with persecutory beliefs. Judge Robin Mairs found there was a sexual element to the offending, following previous reports of Albashir making sexual advances towards women. Which leaves the only question worth asking. Why was he here at all? A homeless, severely ill man, off his medication, already the subject of reports about his behaviour towards women, and the British state’s answer was to leave him wandering Leeds until a woman was nearly murdered on a busy high street. He should never have been our problem. He certainly should never have been a threat to her life.
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 1.4K interactions against 491K followers, an engagement rate of 0.279%. Measured over 30 original posts, its engagement rate beats 86% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 29K times each, and 4.80% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.82% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 30 posts sampled, 77% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 20K interactions, about 15x its own typical post.
- What is Darren Grimes's engagement rate on X?
- Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes) has an engagement rate of 0.279%, based on the median interactions across 30 original posts from the last 30 days against 490,874 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.279%, Darren Grimes sits above the 50th 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 @darrengrimes have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 86% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the top 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 @darrengrimes post?
- Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.53 posts per day across the measured window.