Ricky Gervais engagement report
@rickygervais - 14M followers on X
Measured over 69 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.8K interactions against 14M followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 69 original posts, its engagement rate beats 37% of 20,444 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 229K times each, and 0.774% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.65% 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 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 69 posts sampled, 80% carry an image or video and 32% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 126K interactions, about 71x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #legend, #alleycats, #bestcomedyshow.
Measured over 69 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026. Recurring tags: #legend, #alleycats, #bestcomedyshow.
Compared with accounts its own size
Ricky Gervais's engagement rate beats 37% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 41% 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 0.013%, Ricky Gervais sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,583 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 | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.677% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 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 17:00 UTC, and Thursday 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 | 80% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 32% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 80% 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.
- 32% 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 98 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
- Aug 20, 202671x 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
- Oct 1, 202665x their median
This billboard wasn’t allowed in public incase it offended anyone so please do not repost it. Thanks. https://t.co/i1V5Qq7Af4
- Aug 16, 202665x their median
Worth every penny ❤️ https://t.co/aQj3oThQZV
- Sep 20, 202636x their median
I should’ve left it 😂 https://t.co/90ZOvpFDeK
- Oct 18, 202630x their median
This was our last time together. https://t.co/iLJVfrHKnk
- Aug 28, 202620x 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
- Sep 12, 202618x their median
28 years ago, I was made redundant and given a few grand. I decided that if I was careful, I could live off the money for 6 months trying to become a comedian before I had to get another job. I was 37. Worth a punt. https://t.co/5jFWE3fYYW
- Oct 14, 202618x their median
This was my favourite gag of the night. It was fun watching them try to work out if they should laugh or not. https://t.co/tPmWTeAg07
- Sep 20, 202617x their median
Virtue signalling substitutes applause for action. By turning conviction into costume, it cheapens the cause, alienates the unconvinced, and leaves the real work to those too busy doing it to pose for the cameras. https://t.co/zOae9ufw6I
- Oct 22, 202617x their median
I wish my nan had asked for my consent before she hugged and kissed me. I nearly swallowed her false teeth once.
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 1.8K interactions against 14M followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 69 original posts, its engagement rate beats 37% of 20,444 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 229K times each, and 0.774% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.65% 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 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 69 posts sampled, 80% carry an image or video and 32% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 126K interactions, about 71x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #legend, #alleycats, #bestcomedyshow.
- What is Ricky Gervais's engagement rate on X?
- Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) has an engagement rate of 0.013%, based on the median interactions across 69 original posts from the last 30 days against 13,835,166 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.013%, Ricky Gervais sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,583 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 37% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 5.73 posts per day across the measured window.