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Derren Brown engagement report

@DerrenBrown - 1.8M followers on X

Measured over 3 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 26, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.009%
of 1.8M followers
Per impression
0.945%
16K views on a typical post
Reach
0.9%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
150
interactions (median)
Saved
0.101%
16 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.1/day
active 10% of days
Peak time
11:00 UTC
Monday

Early reading. We have captured 3 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.

A typical post picks up 150 interactions against 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Posts are seen about 16K times each, and 0.945% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.902% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 3 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 305K interactions. Only 3 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

Measured over 3 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 26, 2026.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.009%, Derren Brown sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,374 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,374 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,897 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 percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 11:00 UTC, and Monday 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: 11:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 11:00 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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Monday
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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link100% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 100% 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.
  • 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
  • Its average post runs 134 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below the same accounts' other posts.

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

  • Sep 4, 2025

    A rare close-up of the elusive Golden Langur, one of the only known primates that actively avoids humans https://t.co/cdnpqMntjR

    280K14K5.6K5.4K27M viewsView on X
  • Jul 10, 20258.8x their median

    Just a quick reminder to anyone my age that the blue & black/white & gold dress thing was ten years ago. Trust your life is also slipping by rapidly and unnoticed.

    1.1K8684986K viewsView on X
  • Jan 24, 20268.6x their median

    After the last night of Showman, when everyone had left, I performed the ring-on-glass effect for the final time, for myself, with my Dad’s wedding ring. I’ve kept it, linked onto on the glass, ever since. Gotta break it today so I can get the ring resized to wear. Big day. https://t.co/UMF9sZao87

    1.2K13422156K viewsView on X
  • Nov 17, 20256.2x their median

    Book-writing today, and a nice man at the next table took this picture of me and The Cardinal. https://t.co/oI20kQNlph

    8691346550K viewsView on X
  • Dec 17, 20246.1x their median

    Simpsons Christmas special featuring your correspondent drops today on Disney Plus if you fancy a bit of Derren Yellow. https://t.co/PSyoTGcdsh

    6462225645K viewsView on X
  • May 24, 20264.2x their median

    Dear cafés. No-one wants your homemade baked beans.

    52432691274K viewsView on X
  • Dec 26, 20243.4x their median

    The hit of Christmas at Brown Towers: leftover goose, chestnut and braised red cabbage pie, which I shall now make every Boxing Day until death or police intervention prevents me. Was just us two and the dogs - we stole a quiet one for ourselves after a busy year. ‘Happy Christmas Holidays’ one and all ❤️

    481424057K viewsView on X
  • Jun 28, 20252.9x their median

    After five years of buying and using the same mechanical pencils (Staedtler Graphite 779, 5mm), the shock and delight of finding there’s a little eraser if you pull the end off.

    385537253K viewsView on X
  • Mar 5, 20262.7x their median

    Took my camera out after a long break. A gorgeous murmuration last night over Eastbourne pier. Here all week with Only Human and there are tickets left. Love from the seaside. #streetphotography https://t.co/5srUNksWLa

    3681221020K viewsView on X
  • Nov 7, 20252.6x their median

    No-one else here to show off to, so I’m showing you. https://t.co/4oBH6lEQNH

    357430123K 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 150 interactions against 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Posts are seen about 16K times each, and 0.945% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.902% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 3 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 305K interactions. Only 3 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

What is Derren Brown's engagement rate on X?
Derren Brown (@DerrenBrown) has an engagement rate of 0.009%, based on the median interactions across 3 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,760,615 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.009%, Derren Brown sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,374 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 @DerrenBrown have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @DerrenBrown post?
Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.1 posts per day across the measured window.

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