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Josh Gates engagement report

@joshuagates - 374K followers on X

Measured over 3 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.128%
of 374K followers
Per impression
3.10%
16K views on a typical post
Reach
4.14%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
481
interactions (median)
Saved
0.148%
23 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.1/day
active 10% of days
Peak time
18:00 UTC
Sunday

Early reading. We have captured 3 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 481 interactions against 374K followers, an engagement rate of 0.128%. Posts are seen about 16K times each, and 3.10% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.15% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 3 posts sampled, 67% carry an image or video and 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.9K interactions, about 6.0x its own typical post. Only 3 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 3 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.128%, Josh Gates sits above the 25th percentile of the 200,567 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.141%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.141%
p750.67%
p902.53%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 200,567 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,898 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 percentile0.141%
75th percentile0.67%
90th percentile2.53%
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 18:00 UTC, and Sunday 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: 18:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 18:00 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: Sunday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Sunday
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 video67% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link67% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 67% 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.
  • 67% 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 571 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

  • Aug 23, 20266.0x their median

    Just when I think I can no longer be awed by the majesty of God’s creation, a woman sipping out of a huge water bottle argues with the TSA that it should be allowed through because it’s “medical grade water.”

    2.6K1101251672K viewsView on X
  • Jul 14, 20265.2x their median

    I’m proud to announce that #ExpeditionUnknown on @Discovery has received FOUR Emmy nominations! Our sincere thanks to the members of @TelevisionAcad & @TheEmmys and much thanks to our fearless, daring, and loyal viewers who continue to help us celebrate exploration and adventure! https://t.co/92RgA2BWSf

    2.2K1471581948K viewsView on X
  • Jun 18, 20265.0x their median

    BREAKING NEWS! I’m proud to report that the final resting place of 1,000 Allied POWs has now been identified. Our mission to The Philippines was one of the most emotional expeditions I’ve ever been a part of. I’m honored to work with The Hellships Memorial Foundation to dive down and document this haunting, historic wreck. See the story unfold on the season premiere of #expeditionunknown on Wednesday 06/24 on @Discovery! https://t.co/GfP00oK6Ng

    2.1K25665844K viewsView on X
  • Jun 25, 20264.3x their median

    A new season of Expedition Unknown kicks off in 10 min on @Discovery! Be there for a historic mission 80 years in the making! https://t.co/p8o1IYyuBC

    1.9K11276845K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20253.1x their median

    Last night’s season premiere of #expeditionX on @Discovery was a terrifying journey into the heart of Ireland’s most haunted prison. But for some viewers, the scariest part was an AI driven narration that played over the episode. Apologies! We’ve received hundreds of your emails and social posts since last night, and we’re doing our best to figure out how things went haywire. Come to think of it, Heather did warn me about using a Ouiji board. Hmmm. At the moment, our best guess is that that captioning for the visually impaired was somehow turned on during the cable broadcast. We’ll do our best to resolve this for next week, and we appreciate your patience while we work out the (perhaps literal) ghosts in the machine. Adventure on!

    1.3K97135641K viewsView on X
  • Dec 25, 20252.8x their median

    https://t.co/uOkPh4g7rF

    1.2K6980125K viewsView on X
  • Jun 24, 20262.8x their median

    HANG ON! #ExpeditionUnknown returns TONIGHT with an all-new season and a historic mission that’s breaking news. Join the hunt at 9pm ET/PT on @Discovery https://t.co/SCu2I0SESh

    1.2K9140456K viewsView on X
  • Aug 5, 20262.7x their median

    For years, there have been legends of secret tunnels beneath the Inca capital of Cusco. Turns out some legends are real. All-new #expeditionunknown tonight on @Discovery https://t.co/11Xnc9v1TI

    1.2K8644729K viewsView on X
  • Aug 6, 2025

    TONIGHT (08/06): unlock the secrets of the oldest monument on earth…by joining the excavation. Get ready to dig into history, and discover the truth of Göbekli Tepe! All-new Expedition Unknown at 9pm on @Discovery! https://t.co/dum1IJ0jst

    1.1K10359873K viewsView on X
  • Sep 6, 20262.6x their median

    Me. Merlin. Magical artifacts. Get ready as worlds collide TONIGHT on @librarianstv at 9|8c on TNT. https://t.co/L6HdNmKpAy

    1.2K7229332K 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 481 interactions against 374K followers, an engagement rate of 0.128%. Posts are seen about 16K times each, and 3.10% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.15% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 3 posts sampled, 67% carry an image or video and 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.9K interactions, about 6.0x its own typical post. Only 3 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 Josh Gates's engagement rate on X?
Josh Gates (@joshuagates) has an engagement rate of 0.128%, based on the median interactions across 3 original posts from the last 30 days against 374,376 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.128%, Josh Gates sits above the 25th percentile of the 200,567 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 @joshuagates have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @joshuagates post?
Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.1 posts per day across the measured window.

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