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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
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
- Aug 16, 2026203x their median
Worth every penny ❤️ https://t.co/aQj3oThQZV
- 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
- Aug 25, 202637x their median
Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen ❤️ #Legend https://t.co/QCxxJ3mwW5
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Jun 22, 202619x their median
Nine Lives, Zero Fucks! Alley Cats on Netflix August 7 https://t.co/RVKGQS8ZC5
- Aug 19, 202618x their median
https://t.co/aXYEvHLaRk
- 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
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
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.