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James May engagement report

@MrJamesMay - 3.0M followers on X

Measured over 7 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.208%
of 3.0M followers
Per impression
2.03%
307K views on a typical post
Reach
10.2%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
6.2K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.036%
110 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.23/day
active 20% of days
Peak time
07:00 UTC
Friday

Early reading. We have captured 7 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 6.2K interactions against 3.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.208%. Posts are seen about 307K times each, and 2.03% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 10.2% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.23 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 7 posts sampled, 43% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 78K interactions, about 12x its own typical post. Only 7 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 7 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tag: #speedofbirds.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.208%, James May sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,459 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.081% to 0.438%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.438%
p902.10%
p99159.8%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,459 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,523 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
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Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.438%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile159.8%

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 07:00 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: 07:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 07:00 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%49K
07:00 UTC-5%53K
08:00 UTC-4%62K
09:00 UTC-3%71K
10:00 UTC-2%74K
11:00 UTC-3%81K
12:00 UTC-2%89K
13:00 UTC-2%97K
14:00 UTC-3%100K
15:00 UTC-2%104K
16:00 UTC-4%101K
17:00 UTC-3%94K
18:00 UTC-1%87K
19:00 UTC-2%82K
20:00 UTC-1%77K
21:00 UTC-1%68K
22:00 UTC-1%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: 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+5%236K
Monday0%298K
Tuesday-3%295K
Wednesday-1%255K
Thursday-1%249K
Friday-3%257K
Saturday+3%231K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • May 23, 202612x their median

    My mate Bouncer died yesterday. He’d lived with us for 13 years as a furry, purring, permanently migrating ornament. I didn’t know I could feel such grief for a witless bag of bones who destroyed my favourite sofa and crapped in the shower tray. Below is a picture taken on the day he selected me at the animal shelter.

    72K2.3K2.8K1121.2M viewsView on X
  • Jul 6, 20266.5x their median

    It must be expensive being a Scottish football fan. First you have to buy a Mexican flag. Then you have to buy a Norwegian flag. Where will it end?

    38K1.5K1.2K1442.2M viewsView on X
  • Jun 23, 20265.9x their median

    Alcohol has no single benefit. Zero. Not one.

    23K3.1K7.9K3.0K27M viewsView on X
  • Jul 12, 20265.6x their median

    I think you’ll find that was me. https://t.co/ommwedCipC

    34K62332117766K viewsView on X
  • Jul 11, 20264.0x their median

    Lovely country, Norway. Been there many times. Beautiful cities and scenery, enviable ‘social contract’, unusual food, friendly people, fabulous knitwear. But, bollocks to ‘em.

    24K73730325742K viewsView on X
  • Jul 6, 20263.6x their median

    And some people thought we shouldn’t have stayed up to watch that.

    22K57121311413K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20262.2x their median

    This morning, a fat pigeon was doing 32mph in front of my Land Rover. #SpeedOfBirds

    13K35139320381K viewsView on X
  • Jul 2, 20262.4x their median

    Why? Absolutely no one needs to go to the pub at 1am to watch football. The UKs obsession with drinking culture is pathetic.

    6.8K4383.2K4935.0M viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 20261.8x their median

    I was, frankly, a bit disappointed by the eclipse. I expected total blackness and fabulous wingéd monsters hurtling out of the sky, to Wagner; demented hordes looting shops for canned food as the National Grid failed, and the stench of pure terror.

    9.8K32971046311K viewsView on X
  • Jul 14, 2026

    The French are more artistic in attack but Spain is winning. Football analysis ends. Come on England.

    8.9K1361285294K 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

#speedofbirds

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 6.2K interactions against 3.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.208%. Posts are seen about 307K times each, and 2.03% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 10.2% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.23 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 7 posts sampled, 43% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 78K interactions, about 12x its own typical post. Only 7 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 James May's engagement rate on X?
James May (@MrJamesMay) has an engagement rate of 0.208%, based on the median interactions across 7 original posts from the last 30 days against 3,001,768 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.208%, James May sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,459 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 @MrJamesMay have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @MrJamesMay post?
Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.23 posts per day across the measured window.

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