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Duncan Trussell engagement report

@duncantrussell - 470K followers on X

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.024%
of 470K followers
Per impression
0.656%
17K views on a typical post
Reach
3.60%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
111
interactions (median)
Saved
0.024%
4 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.2/day
active 63% of days
Peak time
19:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 111 interactions against 470K followers, an engagement rate of 0.024%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 46% of 21,185 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 17K times each, and 0.656% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.60% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 17% carry an image or video and 74% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 156K interactions, about 3722x its own typical post.

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Duncan Trussell's engagement rate beats 46% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 36% 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 0.024%, Duncan Trussell sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,741 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.146%
p750.697%
p902.61%
p9982.8%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 212,741 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,375 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 percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.146%
75th percentile0.697%
90th percentile2.61%
99th percentile82.8%

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 19:00 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: 19:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%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%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 video17% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link74% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 17% 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.
  • 74% 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 91 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

  • Apr 26, 20263722x their median

    Scientology has been busy today. https://t.co/n4LDA10DJw

    145K9.1K1.3K1.1K8.0M viewsView on X
  • May 13, 2026376x their median

    Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels. This is fully autonomous running Helix-02 https://t.co/IdZR0T1F5I

    17K2.9K1.9K2.5K14M viewsView on X
  • May 5, 2026444x their median

    Religious leaders told 'prepare now' for UFO disclosure to unleash Bible-changing revelations

    13K1.5K2.3K2.1K8.0M viewsView on X
  • May 7, 202680x their median

    Just now... sources in the White House as well as Congressional members tell me and @G_Knapp that the Presidential UFO file release will begin tomorrow. We are told it will be slow and steady at first. Nothing shocking initially. Let's see where this goes! This is VERY encouraging - that this administration is following through. More data means more leverage for those of us fighting for UAP transparency. SLEEPING DOG exists because our government chose silence over transparency - that might be changing. https://t.co/k6QZirwsVc

    3.9K736366124364K viewsView on X
  • Jun 25, 202654x their median

    I predict there will be 2 major earthquakes today. Possibly 3.

    4.2K99248252.4M viewsView on X
  • Sep 8, 202610.0x their median

    ASTRA UPDATE- It's now controlling my modular synths through Ableton. It's listening to the audio and telling me how to tune my synths. It's incredible but genuinely eerie. I'll post video soon

    98039741256K viewsView on X
  • Oct 9, 20267.9x their median

    Hate to be the bearer of bad news but I predict an earthquake will hit Panama today. Stay safe out there, y'all.

    79317692161K viewsView on X
  • Apr 17, 202617x their median

    Watch Ari Shaffir’s new story telling show at https://t.co/RMwPj19Nvd !! 👻 https://t.co/qZiFQ7Wz3Z

    6553418047K viewsView on X
  • Sep 6, 20266.1x their median

    I continue to be impressed with Astra. I made bobo (the podcast host) with clay then took pictures of him and uploaded it to astra. It turned 3 images into a 3d model, which it then rigged and animated. Super cool tech! https://t.co/cjQNubP5r0

    5863952538K viewsView on X
  • Oct 14, 20264.7x their median

    I have 2 audible credits and am craving something creepy. Any recommendations?!

    2368273259K 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 111 interactions against 470K followers, an engagement rate of 0.024%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 46% of 21,185 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 17K times each, and 0.656% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.60% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 17% carry an image or video and 74% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 156K interactions, about 3722x its own typical post.

What is Duncan Trussell's engagement rate on X?
Duncan Trussell (@duncantrussell) has an engagement rate of 0.024%, based on the median interactions across 23 original posts from the last 30 days against 470,228 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.024%, Duncan Trussell sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,741 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 @duncantrussell have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 46% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 @duncantrussell post?
Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.2 posts per day across the measured window.

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