Bob Nightengale engagement report
@BNightengale - 601K followers on X
Measured over 61 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 9, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 563 interactions against 601K followers, an engagement rate of 0.094%. Measured over 61 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% 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 49K times each, and 1.15% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 8.12% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 61 posts sampled, 15% carry an image or video and 21% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.3K interactions, about 7.6x its own typical post.
Measured over 61 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 9, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Bob Nightengale's engagement rate beats 70% 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 51% 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 0.094%, Bob Nightengale sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,798 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 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 05:00 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 | 15% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 21% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 15% 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.
- 21% 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 143 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 31, 20267.6x their median
Torey Lovullo confirms that this is the 4th consecutive year that Ketel Marte did not appear for a game without permission
- Sep 1, 20266.9x their median
Ketel Marte loudly booed by the Diamondbacks fans which goes louder when he grounds out https://t.co/KsM8h0HNkc
- Oct 7, 20266.5x their median
We have returned RHP Mason Miller from the paternity list today. He will take the place of LHP Wandy Peralta on the active NLDS roster.
- Aug 19, 20265.8x 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.
- Sep 6, 20265.7x their median
The Baltimore Orioles, who just took a $5 million gamble picking up CF Luis Robert Jr, now watch a chunk of it go down the drain with Robert (hamstring) going on the IL yet again.
- Aug 18, 20265.7x 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, 20265.6x 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.
- Sep 13, 20265.4x their median
The Texas Rangers win. They are 3 games below .500. They are 2 games out of 1st place in the AL West. The San Diego Padres win. They are 12 games OVER .500. They are 10 games out of 1st place in the NL West. Oh, to be in the AL this season.
- Aug 25, 20264.7x 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.
- Oct 7, 20264.6x their median
Mason Miller and Adrian Morejon expected to be available for Game 4. Padres say
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 563 interactions against 601K followers, an engagement rate of 0.094%. Measured over 61 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% 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 49K times each, and 1.15% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 8.12% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 61 posts sampled, 15% carry an image or video and 21% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.3K interactions, about 7.6x its own typical post.
- What is Bob Nightengale's engagement rate on X?
- Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) has an engagement rate of 0.094%, based on the median interactions across 61 original posts from the last 30 days against 600,694 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.094%, Bob Nightengale sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,798 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 70% 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 @BNightengale post?
- Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.2 posts per day across the measured window.