Patton Oswalt engagement report
@pattonoswalt - 3.9M followers on X
Measured over 8 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 328 interactions against 3.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 8 original posts, its engagement rate beats 42% of 3,899 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 75K times each, and 0.437% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.91% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.27 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 8 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 54K interactions, about 168x its own typical post.
Measured over 8 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Patton Oswalt's engagement rate beats 42% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 35% 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 0.008%, Patton Oswalt sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,582 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 | 158.1% |
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 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% | 52K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 62K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 74K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 89K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 104K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 94K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 68K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 59K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 237K |
| Monday | 0% | 300K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 299K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 256K |
| Thursday | -1% | 249K |
| Friday | -3% | 258K |
| Saturday | +3% | 232K |
Best tweets
- Apr 8, 2026168x their median
Iran Deal By Obama: ā¢Strait of Hormuz open for free ā¢Iran limits Uranium enrichment ā¢Iran agrees to make no nuclear weapons ā¢Iran allows Int'l inspectors to ensure compliance ā¢Inspectors confirm Iran's full compliance Iran Ceasefire By Trump: ā¢Strait of Hormuz closed, only open for $2M Per Ship ā¢Iran makes no guarantee of limit on uranium enrichment ā¢Iran makes no guarantee of no nuclear weapons ā¢Iran makes no guarantee to allow Int'l inspectors MAGA: Trump Playing 5D Chess! Art Of The Deal!!
- Apr 30, 2026108x their median
horses always clopping. just walk normally. fucking idiots.
- Aug 25, 202642x their median
šššššššššš https://t.co/7wK91E8IAq
- Jun 26, 202615x their median
Seriously fuck 2026. Rest in peace. https://t.co/SnQZ0UATfB
- Jul 21, 202612x their median
Robin Williams would have been 75 today. Iām so grateful for the time we had with him. Be a seeker. https://t.co/kLAeusBTAl
- May 4, 202610x their median
May the 4th be with you. And especially with Amy Poehler. https://t.co/34JADwGIIM
- May 2, 20268.9x their median
Last night @pattonoswalt won $49,000 for Alice's Kids on Celebrity Jeopardy! He now moves to the semi-finals.
- Apr 24, 20268.1x their median
My cat can keep her paranormal experiences to herself https://t.co/2NINv9Bd3N
- Jun 29, 20267.7x their median
Happy 100 year birthday to Mel Brooks, creator of truly timeless comedy. https://t.co/YeEVrGMDLV
- May 20, 20266.8x their median
Should never have tried to debate the King on anything Tolkien. Thanks for being a home to nerds everywhere, @colbertlateshow. https://t.co/aqUzkHUfkZ
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 328 interactions against 3.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 8 original posts, its engagement rate beats 42% of 3,899 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 75K times each, and 0.437% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.91% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.27 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 8 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 54K interactions, about 168x its own typical post.
- What is Patton Oswalt's engagement rate on X?
- Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) has an engagement rate of 0.008%, based on the median interactions across 8 original posts from the last 30 days against 3,935,939 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.008%, Patton Oswalt sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,582 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 @pattonoswalt have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 42% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @pattonoswalt post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.27 posts per day across the measured window.