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Ricky Gervais engagement report

@rickygervais - 14M followers on X

Measured over 88 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.004%
of 14M followers
Per impression
0.284%
201K views on a typical post
Reach
1.45%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
570
interactions (median)
Saved
0.006%
12 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
5.73/day
active 80% of days
Peak time
19:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 570 interactions against 14M followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 88 original posts, its engagement rate beats 33% of 3,774 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 201K times each, and 0.284% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.45% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 88 posts sampled, 74% carry an image or video and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 126K interactions, about 221x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #alleycats, #legend, #netflix.

Measured over 88 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #alleycats, #legend, #netflix.

Compared with accounts its own size

Ricky Gervais's engagement rate beats 33% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 26% 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 0.004%, Ricky Gervais sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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%
p750.433%
p902.10%
p99160.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,654 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,977 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 percentile0.433%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.5%

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 Friday 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 6%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%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
02:00 UTC-3%50K
03:00 UTC-4%53K
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%78K
12:00 UTC-2%86K
13:00 UTC-2%94K
14:00 UTC-4%97K
15:00 UTC-2%101K
16:00 UTC-3%98K
17:00 UTC-2%91K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-1%80K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-1%57K
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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%231K
Monday0%288K
Tuesday-2%278K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%245K
Friday-3%253K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 20, 2026221x their median

    This billboard wasn't allowed in public, so please don't look at it or retweet it. Thanks https://t.co/mRWHMOKn4F https://t.co/YwjaDWTzv2

    96K29K9985001.3M viewsView on X
  • Aug 16, 2026203x their median

    Worth every penny ❤️ https://t.co/aQj3oThQZV

    100K12K3.1K5151.8M viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202663x their median

    Just a reminder that once again I will be donating the extra profit from the platinum tickets for my #Legend tour to animal charities 👍 https://t.co/BoKcQEZMG0

    31K3.9K988202480K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 202637x their median

    Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen ❤️ #Legend https://t.co/QCxxJ3mwW5

    20K32350829471K viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 202630x their median

    This was the first clip Netflix put out for my last special Mortality. There was immediately an online petition to have it removed. Anyway, it went to number 1 & won a Golden Globe 😂 https://t.co/PhjYp9lxif

    16K1.2K16416549K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 202626x their median

    My favourite thing at the moment is all your photos and videos from all over the world, of your pets watching #AlleyCats 😂 Keep 'em coming ❤️ I'm going to bed now as I'm in London, but I'll reply in the morning. https://t.co/3RUczxV9Rh

    13K55379420418K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 202623x their median

    I’m absolutely loving all your amazing comments about #AlleyCats and your photos of your pets enjoying it too 😂 This is my beautiful cat Pickle watching. She’s never heard swearing before. https://t.co/L1OTvOtiVb

    12K43054814340K viewsView on X
  • Jun 22, 202619x their median

    Nine Lives, Zero Fucks! Alley Cats on Netflix August 7 https://t.co/RVKGQS8ZC5

    8.9K1.1K8562281.5M viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 202618x their median

    https://t.co/aXYEvHLaRk

    8.9K87436078370K viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 202617x their median

    Dear North and South America! Please watch #AlleyCats tonight on Netflix. Let me know where you're watching from and post a photo of your own cat if you have one. https://t.co/O7hohHtphD

    8.3K53782842373K 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

#alleycats#legend#netflix#adoptdontshop#afterlife

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 570 interactions against 14M followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 88 original posts, its engagement rate beats 33% of 3,774 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 201K times each, and 0.284% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.45% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 88 posts sampled, 74% carry an image or video and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 126K interactions, about 221x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #alleycats, #legend, #netflix.

What is Ricky Gervais's engagement rate on X?
Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 88 original posts from the last 30 days against 13,861,317 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.004%, Ricky Gervais sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 @rickygervais have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 33% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @rickygervais post?
Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 5.73 posts per day across the measured window.

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