Bill Simmons engagement report
@BillSimmons - 5.1M followers on X
Measured over 90 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 639 interactions against 5.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 90 original posts, its engagement rate beats 49% of 3,899 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 256K times each, and 0.249% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.00% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 90 posts sampled, 48% carry an image or video and 28% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 20K interactions, about 32x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #fdpartner, #freekade, #ringertailgate.
Measured over 90 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #fdpartner, #freekade, #ringertailgate.
Compared with accounts its own size
Bill Simmons's engagement rate beats 49% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 23% 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 0.013%, Bill Simmons sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,701 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.081%.
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 01:00 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% | 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 16, 202632x their median
Only 3 guys are in the 20k-7k-7k Club for career points/rebounds/assists: LeBron, Oscar and Russ. If you drop it to 20k-6k-6k it’s those 3 plus CP3, Harden, Havlicek, Drexler and Kobe. But…. LeBron is at 43k-12k-12k. So technically, he’s in the 20k-6k-6k Club twice.
- Aug 12, 202620x their median
Conspiracy Bill is overheating.
- Aug 6, 202617x their median
I HATE THIS https://t.co/C837wp20y9
- Aug 12, 202616x their median
Kushner/Iger weren’t sure they could get the Vegas expansion team (7.5b range), so they pivoted to buying Walter’s majority Lakers stake (around 78%) for like 9.5b. And got an iconic NBA franchise. Still — most shocking NBA sale in a long time. The Lakers got flipped!
- Aug 6, 202613x their median
I still can’t believe Contreras didn’t kill this guy. https://t.co/3iJRP1XyiK
- Aug 7, 20267.5x their median
The Sox have won 31 of 36 and that was easily hands down unequivocally the craziest one.
- Aug 17, 20266.7x their median
Tom Pelissero is joining Netflix Gameday as a sideline reporter and NFL insider for the full slate of games this season, starting with 49ers vs. Rams in Week 1 from Melbourne. @TomPelissero will also co-host The Ringer NFL Show and contribute across The Ringer’s NFL podcasts, including a weekly appearance on The Bill Simmons Podcast. The Ringer’s video podcasts are available on Netflix.
- Aug 20, 20266.6x their median
Loved this fantasy idea: The last-place fantasy loser gets dropped off 10,000 meters away from a bar while the rest of his friends take his credit card and buy drinks... The spending only stops once he reaches the bar. 😂🍻 (via /TheRinger on Twitch) https://t.co/zmsOs4W42B
- Aug 10, 20266.5x their median
“Nobody needs a commissioner more than the WNBA right now.” @BillSimmons shares his frustration with the discourse around the league and explains why there needs to be a change in leadership. https://t.co/67myX6RY97
- Aug 22, 20266.1x their median
“Tottenham are in tatters” - this has been a tough comeback for me today
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.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 639 interactions against 5.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 90 original posts, its engagement rate beats 49% of 3,899 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 256K times each, and 0.249% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.00% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 90 posts sampled, 48% carry an image or video and 28% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 20K interactions, about 32x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #fdpartner, #freekade, #ringertailgate.
- What is Bill Simmons's engagement rate on X?
- Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) has an engagement rate of 0.013%, based on the median interactions across 90 original posts from the last 30 days against 5,127,814 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.013%, Bill Simmons sits above the 25th 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 @BillSimmons have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 49% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 @BillSimmons post?
- Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 5.6 posts per day across the measured window.