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Deadspin engagement report

@Deadspin - 731K followers on X

Measured over 98 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 30, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 731K followers
Per impression
0.026%
19K views on a typical post
Reach
2.61%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
5
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.37/day
active 47% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Sunday

A typical post picks up 5 interactions against 731K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 98 original posts, its engagement rate beats 9% of 19,932 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 19K times each, and 0.026% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.61% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 98 posts sampled, 48% carry an image or video and 55% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 219x its own typical post.

Measured over 98 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 30, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Deadspin's engagement rate beats 9% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 2% 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 0.001%, Deadspin sits below the 10th percentile of the 201,787 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.142%
p750.672%
p902.54%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 201,787 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,901 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 percentile0.142%
75th percentile0.672%
90th percentile2.54%
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 15:00 UTC, and Sunday 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: 15:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 15:00 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: Sunday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Sunday
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 video48% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link55% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 48% 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.
  • 55% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
  • Its average post runs 95 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

  • Sep 10, 2026219x their median

    Drew Lock outplayed Drake Maye https://t.co/6zxQN1HGWz

    96411112856K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 2026182x their median

    Big Ben on The Browns choosing Deshaun Watson as the Starting Quarterback: “Just like their playoff hopes it ended early before it even started.” 😂😂 https://t.co/FhdBjlc6S1

    78869342071K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202684x their median

    Did Al Michaels just take a shot at Donald Trump? “That is Lake Erie. We think it is still called Lake Erie... We're not quite sure at this point. But we'll be by Lake something like Ontario or whatever it's going to be called. You know what I'm talking about... Read the news.” https://t.co/GgnZCgBWsp

    3712719369K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 202682x their median

    What a scene at Petco: https://t.co/ttl9FTkavz

    397123045K viewsView on X
  • Sep 6, 202636x their median

    Greatest UFC celebration ever https://t.co/OL4UHVSVjj

    162172137K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202636x their median

    Oldest trick in the book https://t.co/Mc8OkY9J3a

    163132346K viewsView on X
  • Sep 6, 202631x their median

    MICHIGAN HAIL MARY WIN https://t.co/Joh9rLqBzl

    71135712141K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 202628x their median

    Enes Kanter got ejected from a WNBA game tonight for arguing with the players. What’re we doing? https://t.co/fQ9fQwghnE

    8023422124K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202623x their median

    Cam Ward got into it with a reporter about his play in the preseason: https://t.co/yh4TgSDCTk

    94810148K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 202621x their median

    The Bengals making players cross the road to get to their practice facility will never not be funny https://t.co/0pRPypaKlN

    82613365K 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 5 interactions against 731K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 98 original posts, its engagement rate beats 9% of 19,932 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 19K times each, and 0.026% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.61% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 98 posts sampled, 48% carry an image or video and 55% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 219x its own typical post.

What is Deadspin's engagement rate on X?
Deadspin (@Deadspin) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 98 original posts from the last 30 days against 730,508 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, Deadspin sits below the 10th percentile of the 201,787 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 @Deadspin have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 9% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% 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 @Deadspin post?
Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.37 posts per day across the measured window.

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