20 Years Ago Sports engagement report
@20YearsAgoSport - 441K followers on X
Measured over 47 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 527 interactions against 441K followers, an engagement rate of 0.12%. Measured over 47 original posts, its engagement rate beats 71% of 3,862 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 43K times each, and 1.22% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 9.81% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 47 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.0K interactions, about 9.4x its own typical post.
Measured over 47 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
20 Years Ago Sports's engagement rate beats 71% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,862 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 56% 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 0.12%, 20 Years Ago Sports sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,350 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.081% to 0.437%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.437% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 159.9% |
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 22:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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% | 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% | 80K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 88K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 97K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 100K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 103K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 100K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 93K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 82K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 76K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 235K |
| Monday | 0% | 296K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 292K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 254K |
| Thursday | -2% | 248K |
| Friday | -3% | 256K |
| Saturday | +3% | 230K |
Best tweets
- Aug 27, 20269.4x their median
Ryan Howard crushes a grand slam to give the Phillies the lead! He now has 46 home runs and 121 RBI on the year. https://t.co/1zVbSLsElm
- Aug 26, 20265.7x their median
A look at the batting average leaders in Major League Baseball after today’s games. Joe Mauer - .356 Freddy Sanchez - .345 Miguel Cabrera - .341 Derek Jeter - .334 Miguel Tejada .329 Robinson Cano - .328 Glad Guerrero - .328 Matt Holiday - .328 Albert Pujols - .322 https://t.co/9bvfz4sDji
- Aug 28, 20265.5x their median
The Detroit Lions have made their decision at kicker and are cutting ties with rookie Matt Prater today. Time will tell if the former UCF kicker gets another shot in the league. https://t.co/nwjCIJkiVy
- Aug 28, 20264.1x their median
More roster cuts are coming today in the NFL and the Buffalo Bills have announced they are cutting QB Kliff Kingsbury. Kingsbury was a 6th round pick by New England in 2003 and has also spent time with the Saints, Jets and Broncos. https://t.co/502LeqcSYy
- Aug 25, 20264.1x their median
Titans 7th round pick Cortland Finnegan has been a surprise to Titans coaches in training camp so far. The corner out of Samford University has been making plays every day and seems to have a good shot at making the roster after preseason is over. The Titans face Atlanta tomorrow in their 3rd preseason game.
- Aug 25, 20263.9x their median
The Arizona Cardinals beat Chicago 23-16 in tonight’s preseason match up. Cardinals rookie QB Matt Leinart went 15-21 for 144 yards in the win. The Cardinals will host the Bears week 6 and should have a good idea of who they are after tonight’s game. https://t.co/IockvSfQCM
- Aug 24, 20263.9x their median
The Carolina Panthers defeated the Miami Dolphins 19-10 in tonight’s preseason game. The game was highlighted by a 98 yard kick return touchdown from Panthers rookie DeAngelo Williams. Williams also had 41 yards on 9 carries. https://t.co/4k4DJUkyq1
- Aug 27, 20262.6x their median
Falcons head coach Jim Mora has announced that rookie quarterback D.J. Shockley has officially made the team and will start the season as the teams third string QB. Shockley is a fan favorite in Atlanta who played for the Georgia Bulldogs in college. https://t.co/A2FehQvqTn
- Aug 26, 20262.4x their median
Saints QB Drew Brees went 19-29 for 189 yards and 2 TD in today’s preseason game vs Indianapolis. Many speculated how Brees shoulder would hold up following the injury last year but today it looked as good as ever. He may just have a few more throws in that right arm of his. https://t.co/yD5dAIxN60
- Aug 27, 20262.4x their median
The Dallas Cowboys are fining Terrell Owens $9,500 today. The team says it’s for missing a team meeting, missing a rehab session and arriving late to an offensive meeting. Not a great start for T.O. in Dallas. https://t.co/kJmoFCi6Ot
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 527 interactions against 441K followers, an engagement rate of 0.12%. Measured over 47 original posts, its engagement rate beats 71% of 3,862 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 43K times each, and 1.22% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 9.81% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 47 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.0K interactions, about 9.4x its own typical post.
- What is 20 Years Ago Sports's engagement rate on X?
- 20 Years Ago Sports (@20YearsAgoSport) has an engagement rate of 0.12%, based on the median interactions across 47 original posts from the last 30 days against 440,677 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.12%, 20 Years Ago Sports sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,350 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 @20YearsAgoSport have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 71% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,862 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 @20YearsAgoSport post?
- Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.93 posts per day across the measured window.