Melvin engagement report
@TravelDudes - 385K followers on X
Measured over 66 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 8 interactions against 385K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 66 original posts, its engagement rate beats 17% of 19,932 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 3.4K times each, and 0.233% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.89% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 66 posts sampled, 70% carry an image or video and 68% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 86 interactions, about 11x its own typical post.
Measured over 66 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026. Recurring tag: #ttot.
Compared with accounts its own size
Melvin's engagement rate beats 17% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 17% 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 0.002%, Melvin sits below the 10th percentile of the 199,467 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.141% |
| 75th percentile | 0.668% |
| 90th percentile | 2.53% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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% | 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 70% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 70% 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.
- 0% 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 184 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
- Sep 14, 202611x their median
Which country fed you best on the smallest budget?
- Sep 23, 20266.8x their median
What is the most surprising thing you have eaten abroad, and where were you when you ate it?
- Sep 19, 20264.0x their median
Which famous sight did not live up to it for you? Be honest.
- Sep 27, 20263.5x their median
Which place made you want to stay longer than you planned, and did you?
- Sep 6, 20263.1x their median
Riyanka Roy spent two weeks solo in Sri Lanka: tuk-tuks and the Pick-Me app to get around, temples with shoulders and knees covered, hostel nights in Mirissa. Solo travellers, where did you feel most at home on your own? https://t.co/4IGZ1n4DqS
- Sep 16, 20262.9x their median
The Vienna State Opera sells around 435 standing spots for 13 to 18 euros, on sale 80 minutes before curtain. Check your coat for free, mark your numbered spot, come back five minutes before the music starts. What is the best show you have seen for almost nothing? https://t.co/7xqsGZv7jN
- Sep 8, 20262.6x their median
A gorilla permit in Uganda is $800 per person. The trek can take anywhere from one to nine hours. You get exactly one hour with the family once you find them. Would you spend a whole day walking for one hour of something? https://t.co/lASFouOOFH
- Sep 17, 20262.5x their median
What travel habit did you pick up abroad and bring home with you?
- Aug 21, 20262.5x their median
Greece has seven island clusters, and the Saronic Gulf is under an hour from Athens by fast boat. July to September doubles the price of everything, so May and October give you the same islands for half. Which Greek island would you go back to? https://t.co/X8VLZHY0lu
- Aug 20, 20262.4x their median
Under the Basilica of San Clemente in Rome sit three levels. A 12th century church, a 4th century church below it, and under that a 1st century temple to Mithras with an underground river still running past. Which building surprised you most from the inside? https://t.co/9N06wn4sVr
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 8 interactions against 385K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 66 original posts, its engagement rate beats 17% of 19,932 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 3.4K times each, and 0.233% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.89% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 66 posts sampled, 70% carry an image or video and 68% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 86 interactions, about 11x its own typical post.
- What is Melvin's engagement rate on X?
- Melvin (@TravelDudes) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 66 original posts from the last 30 days against 385,110 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, Melvin sits below the 10th percentile of the 199,467 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 @TravelDudes have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 17% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size 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 @TravelDudes post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.87 posts per day across the measured window.