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Patton Oswalt engagement report

@pattonoswalt - 3.9M followers on X

Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 31, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.005%
of 3.9M followers
Per impression
0.321%
60K views on a typical post
Reach
1.52%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
192
interactions (median)
Saved
0.035%
21 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.77/day
active 47% of days
Peak time
19:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 192 interactions against 3.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Posts are seen about 60K times each, and 0.321% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.52% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.77 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video, 13% are part of a thread and 38% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 196K interactions, about 948x its own typical post.

Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 31, 2026.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.005%, Patton Oswalt sits above the 10th percentile of the 217,745 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.149%
p750.704%
p902.63%
p9982.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 217,745 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 21,722 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 percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.149%
75th percentile0.704%
90th percentile2.63%
99th percentile82.5%

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 19:00 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.

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: 19:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 19:00 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video94% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link38% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 94% 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.
  • 38% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 187 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

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

  • Oct 29, 2026948x their median

    Fox: Why are you here this morning? Trump rally attendee: Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to go to South America for the Jonestown Massacre. But this is as close as I'll ever get, so that's why I'm here. There's nothing like seeing a cult right up front. https://t.co/wGMf2GTV4E

    166K23K2.8K4.5K5.7M viewsView on X
  • Apr 8, 2026168x their median

    Iran Deal By Obama: •Strait of Hormuz open for free •Iran limits Uranium enrichment •Iran agrees to make no nuclear weapons •Iran allows Int'l inspectors to ensure compliance •Inspectors confirm Iran's full compliance Iran Ceasefire By Trump: •Strait of Hormuz closed, only open for $2M Per Ship •Iran makes no guarantee of limit on uranium enrichment •Iran makes no guarantee of no nuclear weapons •Iran makes no guarantee to allow Int'l inspectors MAGA: Trump Playing 5D Chess! Art Of The Deal!!

    42K10K7726442.2M viewsView on X
  • Apr 30, 202652x their median

    horses always clopping. just walk normally. fucking idiots.

    32K2.0K52825718M viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 202666x their median

    💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 https://t.co/7wK91E8IAq

    13K5216517148K viewsView on X
  • Oct 4, 202659x their median

    A fan gave me this — a poster-sized illustration of every character for which I’ve done a voice (so far — there’s at least 4 upcoming new ones). And I CAN’T decipher her signature. Thanked her in person but did not commit her name to memory. Aargh. https://t.co/ShtNkdpwrg

    12K279895273K viewsView on X
  • Jun 26, 202624x their median

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

    4.6K812777310M viewsView on X
  • Jul 21, 202619x 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

    3.5K2953910128K viewsView on X
  • May 4, 20267.0x their median

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

    3.1K242618119K 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, 20262.8x their median

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

    2.4K2253212103K 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 192 interactions against 3.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Posts are seen about 60K times each, and 0.321% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.52% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.77 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video, 13% are part of a thread and 38% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 196K interactions, about 948x its own typical post.

What is Patton Oswalt's engagement rate on X?
Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) has an engagement rate of 0.005%, based on the median interactions across 16 original posts from the last 30 days against 3,925,795 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.005%, Patton Oswalt sits above the 10th percentile of the 217,745 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?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @pattonoswalt post?
Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.77 posts per day across the measured window.

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