ESPN Insights engagement report
@ESPNInsights - 1.8M followers on X
Measured over 154 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 546 interactions against 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.031%. Measured over 154 original posts, its engagement rate beats 65% of 3,774 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 56K times each, and 0.972% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.17% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 154 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 21K interactions, about 39x its own typical post.
Measured over 154 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
ESPN Insights's engagement rate beats 65% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 55% 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 0.031%, ESPN Insights sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 22, 202639x their median
Breaking: Nick Chubb announced his retirement from the NFL on social media after 8 seasons. https://t.co/ahl0CduOrq
- Aug 24, 202623x their median
Mariners starter Bryce Miller did something not seen in MLB in 136 years in Seattle's 19-2 loss Sunday... He became the 1st pitcher since George Van Haltren of the 1890 Brooklyn Wonders to lose consecutive starts by at least 17 runs 😱😱 https://t.co/8WOY415wsX
- Aug 23, 202622x their median
The Brewers are an MLB-best 81-49 despite hitting the fewest home runs in baseball (120). 😲 So how are they doing it? They lead MLB in OBP (.337) and chase rate (27%), rank second in walk rate (11%) and third in stolen bases (129) and sac bunts (30). They get on base. https://t.co/e5xvamTRU8
- Aug 24, 202616x their median
LEGENDARY PERFORMANCE 🔥 Paige Bueckers' 32 points are the most points in a game without playing in the 4th quarter since the WNBA instituted quarters in 2006 (including playoffs). https://t.co/fvGOQv86w2
- Aug 26, 202612x their median
The Red Sox have gone from 14 games under .500 to 14 games over .500 in 62 days, the second-shortest such turnaround in MLB history (Elias Sports Bureau). ⚾️ Jarren Duran’s 11th-inning grand slam gives him 17 RBI in the 9th inning or later this season, most in MLB. https://t.co/aUsuPRluZO
- Aug 19, 20269.9x their median
Breanna Stewart is the 1st player in WNBA history to score 3,000+ points with multiple franchises 🤩 https://t.co/4yCBx3iegI
- Aug 16, 20269.5x their median
Sonny Gray improved to 15-3 with 7 shutout innings for Boston Saturday 💪 Gray is the fastest Red Sox pitcher to reach 15 wins in a season (23 appearances) since Pedro Martínez in 1998 (also 23) ⚾️ https://t.co/DAq0ghlVtP
- Aug 21, 20268.7x their median
This Angel Reese stat line vs. the Sparks 🤯 Nearly had a 20-point triple double and didn't miss a shot 🔥 https://t.co/9jZpCqBM25
- Aug 28, 20268.3x their median
Jacob Misiorowski just accomplished something not done in MLB since 1985 ... He became the first pitcher since Doc Gooden to start a season with 25 straight starts allowing 3 ER or less in each. He's only the 7th pitcher to ever have a streak that long 🔥 https://t.co/5Rf8mtBGRm
- Aug 15, 20266.7x their median
ICYMI, last night Caitlin Clark put up 29 points and 10 assists, her 13th career game with 25+ points and 10+ assists, and 7th this season 🏀 Nobody else in WNBA history has more than 6 such games in their entire career 😲 https://t.co/tIw8pGeqnH
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 546 interactions against 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.031%. Measured over 154 original posts, its engagement rate beats 65% of 3,774 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 56K times each, and 0.972% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.17% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 154 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 21K interactions, about 39x its own typical post.
- What is ESPN Insights's engagement rate on X?
- ESPN Insights (@ESPNInsights) has an engagement rate of 0.031%, based on the median interactions across 154 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,775,770 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.031%, ESPN Insights sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 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 @ESPNInsights have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 65% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @ESPNInsights post?
- Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 5.73 posts per day across the measured window.