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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

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.094%
of 601K followers
Per impression
1.15%
49K views on a typical post
Reach
8.11%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
563
interactions (median)
Saved
0.016%
8 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.2/day
active 23% of days
Peak time
05:00 UTC
Thursday

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%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,798 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,879 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 05:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 05:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video15% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link21% 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

    3.9K13489127558K viewsView on X
  • 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

    3.5K148112941.8M viewsView on X
  • 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.

    3.3K1948370202K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    2.9K15610276332K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    2.9K13310065396K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    2.9K8114783829K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    2.8K2596729367K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    2.9K1013010192K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    2.4K1075853289K viewsView on X
  • Oct 7, 20264.6x their median

    Mason Miller and Adrian Morejon expected to be available for Game 4. Padres say

    2.4K852523140K viewsView on X

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.

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