David Mitchell engagement report
@RealDMitchell - 2.1M followers on X
Measured over 2 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 2 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 990 interactions against 2.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.048%. Measured over 2 original posts, its engagement rate beats 97% of 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 169K times each, and 0.585% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 8.14% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.13 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 2 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 50% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 13x its own typical post. Only 2 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 2 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
David Mitchell's engagement rate beats 97% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count. A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.048%, David Mitchell sits above the 25th percentile of the 40,677 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.013% to 0.083%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.013% |
| 50th percentile | 0.083% |
| 75th percentile | 0.443% |
| 90th percentile | 2.07% |
| 99th percentile | 145.6% |
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 07:00 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% | 57K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 56K |
| 03:00 UTC | -3% | 60K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 48K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 47K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 07:00 UTC | -4% | 58K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 68K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 79K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 97K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 106K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 109K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 113K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 110K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 102K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 95K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 64K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 251K |
| Monday | +1% | 321K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 343K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 299K |
| Thursday | -2% | 260K |
| Friday | -3% | 272K |
| Saturday | +3% | 245K |
Best tweets
- Apr 18, 202513x their median
Watch the football! It's gonna move! 😲🫵 A blockbuster weekend of football across the EFL this Easter on Sky Sports - and it starts now as Derby take on Luton! 🍿📺 https://t.co/6x5wbMLDBi
- Aug 1, 20259.8x their median
"Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping", a new sketch show featuring @arobertwebb, @5teviem, @kfRedhot, @lararicote, Krystal Evans and me, starts NEXT MONTH on @Channel4! Here's a little taster to get you in the holiday mood. https://t.co/W43TqNKn2m
- Aug 15, 20255.3x their median
Here's a trailer for Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping, a new sketch show which starts next month on @Channel4. I'm posting the phone-shaped version but it'll be television-shaped when it's on television. #MitchellAndWebb @arobertwebb @5teviem @kfRedhot @lararicote #KrystalEvans https://t.co/E3C1mGfBpo
- Nov 20, 20255.2x their median
No turkey?! This is NOT a Christmas joke. The Great Peep Show Christmas Bake Off with Olivia Colman, @RealDMitchell, @IsySuttie, @RealMattKing and Sophie Winkleman. It's going to be very Christmassy indeed. #GBBO #PeepShow https://t.co/1qdflwhFBt
- Mar 18, 202514x their median
Glamorous news: There’s a piece in THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER about the launch of #Ludwig on @BritBox_US and @Britbox_CA on 20th March! It’s very nice though it does say I was in Blackadder, which would have been extremely nice, but sadly isn’t true. https://t.co/EBkRH6eCOb
- Sep 6, 20253.4x their median
Thanks for all the nice messages about Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping. I’m delighted to say that episode 2 features one of our favourite, and most Oscar winning, former cast members.
- Feb 24, 20263.2x their median
Last One Laughing, returns for season 2 with a brand new line up of comedians all trying to keep a straight face! Available on Prime Video from 19th March https://t.co/3bgXc7iTME
- Feb 16, 20268.3x their median
I've peaked. Got to be in my favourite show and play straight man to the brilliant cast. I'm often to be found watching it under the duvet as my wife sleeps beside me. She'll wake and hit me for shaking with laughter. I hope she knows it's laughter #wilty https://t.co/qF1NzJW3id
- Aug 20, 20261.7x their median
A new series of Ludwig starts on @BBCOne at 9pm! The first three episodes will then be available on @BBCiPlayer but you'll have to wait until September for episodes 4-6. Hope you enjoy it! https://t.co/PMWTrEa0cX
- Sep 4, 20255.7x their median
Filming commences on series two of @RealDMitchell’s smash hit award-winning BBC comedy detective series #Ludwig: https://t.co/nDw6mFzoMg https://t.co/pNjiLOdSAh
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 990 interactions against 2.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.048%. Measured over 2 original posts, its engagement rate beats 97% of 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 169K times each, and 0.585% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 8.14% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.13 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 2 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 50% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 13x its own typical post. Only 2 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 David Mitchell's engagement rate on X?
- David Mitchell (@RealDMitchell) has an engagement rate of 0.048%, based on the median interactions across 2 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,076,284 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.048%, David Mitchell sits above the 25th percentile of the 40,677 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 @RealDMitchell have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 97% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count, which puts it in the top 10% 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 @RealDMitchell post?
- Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.13 posts per day across the measured window.