Bob Nightengale engagement report
@BNightengale - 599K followers on X
Measured over 30 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 868 interactions against 599K followers, an engagement rate of 0.145%. Measured over 30 original posts, its engagement rate beats 77% of 3,899 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 73K times each, and 1.18% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 12.3% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 30 posts sampled, 20% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.2K interactions, about 3.7x its own typical post.
Measured over 30 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Bob Nightengale's engagement rate beats 77% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 57% 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 0.145%, Bob Nightengale sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,701 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.081% to 0.439%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 156.3% |
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 04:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Aug 19, 20263.7x their median
Jorge Polanco, who was signed to replace Pete Alonso at 1B, finishes his season with 37 games, 20 hits, 2 HRs and 6 RBI. He will undergo season-ending ankle surgery, the Mets announce.
- Aug 18, 20263.7x their median
The Boston Red Sox were one of the teams who made a strong effort to acquire Ketel Marte during the winter. Now they’re seeing why the Dbacks were motivated to trade him.
- Aug 17, 20263.6x their median
Major League Baseball unanimously approved the new ownership group of the San Diego Padres, led by José E. Feliciano and his wife Kwanza Jones. Jones becomes the first Black majority owner of a team in MLB history.
- Aug 25, 20263.0x their median
Arizona Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo apologized to Cubs manager Craig Counsell today saying the sign relaying by the Cubs’ coaches in Monday night’s game was perfectly legal. Lovullo realized the mistake after speaking with MLB VP Michael Hill saying it was legal.
- Aug 16, 20262.1x their median
The Chicago White Sox, taking advantage of Tarik Skubal and Casey Mize’s departures, sweep away the Detroit Tigers’ AL Central title hopes
- Aug 25, 20261.9x their median
The Diamondbacks acknowledged that pitcher Merrill Kelly was tipping his pitches that was alertly picked up by Cubs 3B coach Quintin Berry. Berry’s actions were perfectly legal since he stayed in the coaches box.
- Aug 16, 20261.7x their median
RIP the great Tommy John. The family is asking that In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in his name to the Tommy John Fund at Duke University (https://t.co/w4AMU53P7b).
- Aug 24, 20261.6x their median
The Miami Marlins make wholesale firings in their pro scouting department
- Aug 16, 2026
The Milwaukee Brewers with quite the weekend in LA, winning 3 of 4 in NLCS preview. The Brewers now have 3 game lead over the Dodgers for best record and 4.5 game lead in NL Central
- Aug 19, 2026
In what has become an embarrassing season for the Seattle Mariners now hits a new humiliating low: Milwaukee Brewers 22 Seattle 0.
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 868 interactions against 599K followers, an engagement rate of 0.145%. Measured over 30 original posts, its engagement rate beats 77% of 3,899 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 73K times each, and 1.18% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 12.3% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 30 posts sampled, 20% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.2K interactions, about 3.7x its own typical post.
- What is Bob Nightengale's engagement rate on X?
- Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) has an engagement rate of 0.145%, based on the median interactions across 30 original posts from the last 30 days against 598,500 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.145%, Bob Nightengale sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,701 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 @BNightengale have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 77% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 accounts), which puts it in the top 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 @BNightengale post?
- Most posts go out around 04:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.27 posts per day across the measured window.