EnglishRichard Dawkins is on Twitter (X) as @RichardDawkins, with 2,862,979 followers and 31,891 posts. It lost 584 followers in the last 7 days and 3,258 in the last 30 days. A typical post draws 1.5K interactions, an engagement rate of 0.054% per follower.
Insights
Over the last 30 days @RichardDawkins lost 3,258 followers (-0.11%). In the last 7 days the change was -584 followers. Its strongest tracked day added +4,460 followers on Aug 20, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.5K interactions against 2.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0.054%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 60% of 20,688 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 114K times each, and 1.35% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.00% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline.
Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 26, 2026. Recurring tag: #unaff.
Full engagement reportFollower growth
Best tracked day: +4.5K followers on 2026-08-20.
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Bio
UK biologist & writer
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