ESPN Insights engagement report
@ESPNInsights - 1.8M followers on X
Measured over 330 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 572 interactions against 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.032%. Measured over 330 original posts, its engagement rate beats 52% of 21,185 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 50K times each, and 1.14% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.83% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 12.4 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 Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 330 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 21K interactions, about 37x its own typical post.
Measured over 330 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 27, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
ESPN Insights's engagement rate beats 52% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 50% 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 0.032%, ESPN Insights sits above the 25th percentile of the 212,270 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.025% to 0.146%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.146% |
| 75th percentile | 0.695% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 83.1% |
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% | 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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 1% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 100% 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.
- 1% 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 237 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
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 22, 202637x their median
Breaking: Nick Chubb announced his retirement from the NFL on social media after 8 seasons. https://t.co/ahl0CduOrq
- Oct 20, 202631x their median
ANGEL REESE HISTORIC GAME 2 👑 She's just the third player in WNBA history with 30 points and 15 rebounds in a Finals game 🔥 https://t.co/VpNOjq5M1h
- Sep 19, 202627x their median
A NEW MUSIC CITY MIRACLE! 😱 Six seconds from a defeat, the unthinkable happens, and Vandy wins 🫨 https://t.co/ZDlDnQHv9i
- Sep 3, 202623x their median
Amen Thompson got PAID 💰 The deal also includes a 10% trade kicker, sources tell @ShamsCharania. https://t.co/OTBAq2R5X1
- Aug 24, 202622x 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, 202621x 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
- Sep 4, 202620x their median
MASS CHAOS IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL! The 29.5-point underdog Minutemen beat the Big Ten's Rutgers by 16 on the road‼️ https://t.co/eu6Eo2CcO3
- Sep 13, 202620x their median
T.J. Watt joins Julius Peppers as the only players with 100 sacks and 10 interceptions since sacks became official in 1982 https://t.co/MXFyPSU6Oh
- Sep 14, 202618x their median
Carson Wentz is the first reserve to throw 3 pass TD and 0 INT in a season-opening win since Fran Tarkenton on Sept. 17, 1961 🏈 That just so happened to be the first game in Vikings history and Tarkenton's first career game 🤯 https://t.co/Wg5EBhbM1d
- Sep 9, 202616x their median
The winner of Tiafoe vs. Shelton will make history ✍️ 🎾 First Black American man to reach a US Open Final since Arthur Ashe (1972) 🎾First Black American man to reach any major final since MaliVai Washington (1996 Wimbledon) https://t.co/IRE4boYOlQ
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 572 interactions against 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.032%. Measured over 330 original posts, its engagement rate beats 52% of 21,185 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 50K times each, and 1.14% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.83% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 12.4 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 Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 330 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 21K interactions, about 37x its own typical post.
- What is ESPN Insights's engagement rate on X?
- ESPN Insights (@ESPNInsights) has an engagement rate of 0.032%, based on the median interactions across 330 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,772,375 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.032%, ESPN Insights sits above the 25th percentile of the 212,270 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 52% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 12.4 posts per day across the measured window.