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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

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.008%
of 3.9M followers
Per impression
0.437%
75K views on a typical post
Reach
1.91%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
328
interactions (median)
Saved
0.027%
20 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.27/day
active 27% of days
Peak time
18:00 UTC
Tuesday

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%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.439%
p902.10%
p99158.1%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,582 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 105,409 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 percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.439%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile158.1%

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.

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 6%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%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
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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%237K
Monday0%300K
Tuesday-3%299K
Wednesday-1%256K
Thursday-1%249K
Friday-3%258K
Saturday+3%232K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Apr 8, 2026168x their median

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  • Apr 30, 2026108x their median

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  • Aug 25, 202642x their median

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  • Jun 26, 202615x their median

    Seriously fuck 2026. Rest in peace. https://t.co/SnQZ0UATfB

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  • Jul 21, 202612x their median

    Robin Williams would have been 75 today. I’m so grateful for the time we had with him. Be a seeker. https://t.co/kLAeusBTAl

    3.6K3014010128K viewsView on X
  • May 4, 202610x their median

    May the 4th be with you. And especially with Amy Poehler. https://t.co/34JADwGIIM

    3.1K245618119K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    2.8K8212368K viewsView on X
  • Apr 24, 20268.1x their median

    My cat can keep her paranormal experiences to herself https://t.co/2NINv9Bd3N

    2.4K2263312103K viewsView on X
  • Jun 29, 20267.7x their median

    Happy 100 year birthday to Mel Brooks, creator of truly timeless comedy. https://t.co/YeEVrGMDLV

    2.3K20432781K viewsView on X
  • 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

    2.1K91353129K 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 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.

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