GAY TIMES engagement report
@gaytimes - 430K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 27 interactions against 430K followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 24% of 3,917 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 6.6K times each, and 0.409% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.54% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.3K interactions, about 87x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #heatedrivalry, #rwrb.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026. Recurring tags: #heatedrivalry, #rwrb.
Compared with accounts its own size
GAY TIMES's engagement rate beats 24% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 29% 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 0.006%, GAY TIMES sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,996 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 | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 154.7% |
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 01:00 UTC, and Friday 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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 54K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 56K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 45K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 82K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 99K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 102K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 103K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 89K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 84K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 78K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 54K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 239K |
| Monday | 0% | 303K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 305K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 259K |
| Thursday | -2% | 251K |
| Friday | -3% | 260K |
| Saturday | +3% | 234K |
Best tweets
- Aug 27, 202687x their median
Fellow Travelers isn't just an opera – it's a living memorial to LGBTQIA+ 👨❤️💋👨 persecution https://t.co/zpXDYDhxxD https://t.co/DBiSTb6MIu
- Aug 28, 202659x their median
Who is Rob Jetten? Meet the Netherlands’ first gay prime minister 🇳🇱🏳️🌈 https://t.co/0bNe5nFIry https://t.co/femuzSiM7u
- Aug 28, 202635x their median
On the Sea stars Barry Ward and Lorne MacFayden on bringing rural queer life to the big screen 🌊 https://t.co/YysrybA4A8 https://t.co/TKHjF0RBv5
- Aug 28, 202630x their median
"I'll be showing hole": Jack Innanen shares cheeky message to #HeatedRivalry fans upset over his season 2 absence 👀 https://t.co/NrSTo98NrK https://t.co/7cWTR5JGWT
- Aug 27, 202630x their median
Why Brokeback Mountain is still a landmark of queer cinema, 20 years later 🐴 https://t.co/mprUbJw1VF https://t.co/jGLHG0mVHv
- Aug 27, 202611x their median
Rapture: Kit Connor, Will Poulter and Manu Ríos' queer body horror receives a promising update 🧟♂️ https://t.co/BqH0Cte2ry https://t.co/QzHdJBAnDA
- Aug 27, 20269.7x their median
5 gay romance novels that deserve the Heated Rivalry treatment – and our dream cast 🎥📚️ https://t.co/RRTwWHniuH https://t.co/71q8J6ouTm
- Aug 28, 20268.6x their median
Blue Film: Kieron Moore’s fetish cam boy thriller finally has a UK release date 🔷 https://t.co/fb1CvXElbi https://t.co/tNX1G6HVGq
- Aug 28, 20267.1x their median
Gay rugby player gets candid on his coming out journey: "I've been very lucky" ❤️🏳️🌈 https://t.co/Hp1Tk3qMfz https://t.co/UC7Eq7QZOT
- Aug 28, 20266.1x their median
"Various things at play": François Arnaud teases Scott and Kip's return in Heated Rivalry season 2 👀 https://t.co/PcrrOyS7x0 https://t.co/UD48s2qChp
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 27 interactions against 430K followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 24% of 3,917 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 6.6K times each, and 0.409% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.54% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.3K interactions, about 87x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #heatedrivalry, #rwrb.
- What is GAY TIMES's engagement rate on X?
- GAY TIMES (@gaytimes) has an engagement rate of 0.006%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 429,687 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.006%, GAY TIMES sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,996 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 @gaytimes have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 24% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 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 @gaytimes post?
- Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.