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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

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.031%
of 1.8M followers
Per impression
0.972%
56K views on a typical post
Reach
3.17%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
546
interactions (median)
Saved
0.023%
13 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
5.73/day
active 67% of days
Peak time
01:00 UTC
Sunday

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%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.434%
p902.10%
p99160.7%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,521 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,166 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.434%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.7%

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.

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: 01:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 01:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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
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 5%Busiest day: Sunday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%230K
Monday0%286K
Tuesday-2%276K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%244K
Friday-3%252K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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

    19K1.1K3443182.2M viewsView on X
  • 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

    12K6101232061.8M viewsView on X
  • 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

    11K949229216736K viewsView on X
  • 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

    7.3K1.1K9560181K viewsView on X
  • 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

    5.8K6784937308K viewsView on X
  • 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

    4.6K7522746108K viewsView on X
  • 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

    4.7K3535229179K viewsView on X
  • 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

    3.9K6719465124K viewsView on X
  • 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

    4.0K4524352205K viewsView on X
  • 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

    3.2K393852489K 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 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.

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