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Melvin engagement report

@TravelDudes - 378K followers on X

Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0.002%
of 378K followers
Per impression
0.18%
4.5K views on a typical post
Reach
1.18%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
8
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.67/day
active 67% of days
Peak time
07:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 8 interactions against 378K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% of 3,810 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 4.5K times each, and 0.18% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.18% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 81% carry an image or video, 56% are part of a thread and 9% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 23 interactions, about 2.9x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #eastafrica, #machupicchu, #perutravel.

Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #eastafrica, #machupicchu, #perutravel.

Compared with accounts its own size

Melvin's engagement rate beats 8% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,810 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 10% 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 0.002%, Melvin sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,852 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.435%
p902.10%
p99159.8%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,852 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,564 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.435%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile159.8%

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 Monday 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: 07:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 07:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
02:00 UTC-3%50K
03:00 UTC-4%54K
04:00 UTC-6%43K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%48K
07:00 UTC-5%52K
08:00 UTC-4%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
10:00 UTC-2%72K
11:00 UTC-3%79K
12:00 UTC-2%87K
13:00 UTC-3%95K
14:00 UTC-4%98K
15:00 UTC-2%101K
16:00 UTC-4%99K
17:00 UTC-2%91K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-1%80K
20:00 UTC-1%75K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-2%58K
23:00 UTC-2%52K
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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Monday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%232K
Monday0%290K
Tuesday-2%281K
Wednesday-1%252K
Thursday-2%245K
Friday-3%254K
Saturday+3%228K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 21, 20262.9x their median

    Greece has seven island clusters, and the Saronic Gulf is under an hour from Athens by fast boat. July to September doubles the price of everything, so May and October give you the same islands for half. Which Greek island would you go back to? https://t.co/X8VLZHY0lu

    171504.5K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20262.4x their median

    Under the Basilica of San Clemente in Rome sit three levels. A 12th century church, a 4th century church below it, and under that a 1st century temple to Mithras with an underground river still running past. Which building surprised you most from the inside? https://t.co/9N06wn4sVr

    133305.0K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20262.3x their median

    Geghard monastery, carved straight into the rock, costs nothing to enter. Garni Temple: 1,500 dram, about 4 dollars. The Tatev cable car across the gorge: 9,000 dram return. Armenia is one of the last places in Europe where the big sights are still this cheap. https://t.co/dVPksLI3ca

    151204.6K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20262.0x their median

    In the Marrakech souks the opening price can be many times what the seller expects to take. Aim for about half, stay friendly, and start walking when the numbers stop moving. Bring cash and small notes. Where have you haggled hardest? https://t.co/zVBvGa60AW

    121304.2K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20262.0x their median

    The Vienna State Opera keeps 435 standing places. They go on sale 80 minutes before curtain and cost 13 to 18 euros. Queue two hours early and you get one of Europe's great opera houses for the price of two coffees. Which city gave you the best cheap night out? https://t.co/hemqYar0h7

    131204.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20261.9x their median

    Three rocks off Capri, each with a name. Stella, over 100 metres out of the water. Faraglione di Mezzo, with an arch you can boat through. Scopolo, home to a blue lizard found nowhere else on Earth. The Gardens of Augustus give you all three for free. https://t.co/zzaPpMj1Vu

    150005.0K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 20261.8x their median

    Batur is 1,717 metres and takes one to two hours up. Agung is 3,031 and you start walking at half past two in the morning. Rinjani is 3,726 and needs three days. Which sunrise was worth the alarm clock? https://t.co/tAo3GtvWwr

    111205.0K viewsView on X
  • Jul 20, 20261.6x their median

    We’ve chased the northern lights in Lofoten, dog-sledded in Alta, and hiked Senja’s peaks. We always return to Northern Norway—our favorite place on Earth for outdoor adventure. Here is how to plan your own epic trip: https://t.co/LES7tmY4Yu #NorthernNorway #ArcticAdventure https://t.co/lIrP0COBdU

    111103.4K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20261.5x their median

    Onofrio's Fountain sits just inside the Pile Gate in Dubrovnik and the water is free and drinkable. Refill there instead of buying bottles in the old town and a family saves a few euros every day. What is the best free thing in an expensive city? https://t.co/5WoWrlDwqI

    90304.5K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 2026

    The Prospect of Whitby on Wapping Wall has been open since 1520. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese was rebuilt right after the Great Fire of 1666 and Dickens drank there. The Spaniard's Inn had Dick Turpin and Keats. Oldest pub or bar you have had a drink in? https://t.co/lkyeCCRotE

    80304.1K 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.

Recurring topics

#eastafrica#machupicchu#perutravel#postvacationblues#safaritravel

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 8 interactions against 378K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% of 3,810 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 4.5K times each, and 0.18% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.18% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 81% carry an image or video, 56% are part of a thread and 9% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 23 interactions, about 2.9x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #eastafrica, #machupicchu, #perutravel.

What is Melvin's engagement rate on X?
Melvin (@TravelDudes) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 32 original posts from the last 30 days against 378,292 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.002%, Melvin sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,852 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 @TravelDudes have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 8% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,810 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 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 @TravelDudes post?
Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.67 posts per day across the measured window.

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