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NBA on ESPN engagement report

@ESPNNBA - 9.1M followers on X

Measured over 70 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.025%
of 9.1M followers
Per impression
0.819%
283K views on a typical post
Reach
3.10%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
2.3K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.031%
87 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.37/day
active 70% of days
Peak time
19:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 2.3K interactions against 9.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.025%. Measured over 70 original posts, its engagement rate beats 62% of 3,739 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 283K times each, and 0.819% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.10% 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 70% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 70 posts sampled, 86% carry an image or video and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 46K interactions, about 20x its own typical post.

Measured over 70 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

NBA on ESPN's engagement rate beats 62% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 51% 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 0.025%, NBA on ESPN sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,378 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.

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Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,378 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,364 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 percentile0.432%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile161.0%

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 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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: 19:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 19:00 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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Wednesday
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 14, 202620x their median

    Just in: The Cleveland Cavaliers are trading Dennis Schroder and cash to the Charlotte Hornets for Tre Mann, sources tell ESPN. https://t.co/MNhjejPxJQ

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  • Aug 12, 202616x their median

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  • Aug 20, 202610x their median

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  • Aug 12, 202610x their median

    THANKSGIVING EVE ON ESPN IS STACKED 🔥 https://t.co/29f0ZDgrLV

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  • Aug 21, 202610x their median

    Klay Thompson and Andrew Wiggins are reunited in Miami 🔥 https://t.co/NsrlXmYrZ9

    22K1.4K9099316K viewsView on X
  • Aug 6, 20269.0x their median

    Phoenix Suns forward Dillon Brooks has agreed to a three-year, $73 million contract extension through 2029-30, Mike George of Klutch Sports tells ESPN. Brooks has become a key part of the Suns two-way, hard-nosed culture under Jordan Ott and lands a new guaranteed long-term deal. https://t.co/loV1DWs2z5

    17K1.7K8939057.2M viewsView on X
  • Aug 6, 20268.9x their median

    Lonnie Walker IV has agreed to a one-year, $3.3 million deal with the Denver Nuggets, agent George S. Langberg of @GSLSportsGroup told ESPN. Walker was with Maccabi Tel Aviv in the EuroLeague after last playing in the NBA in 2024-25 and now enters his 8th season in the league. https://t.co/tvxQc2RRjz

    17K1.4K7351.1K4.5M viewsView on X
  • Aug 9, 20267.7x their median

    Don Nelson, the second winningest coach in NBA history, a five-time NBA champion as a player and a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, has died, it was announced Sunday. He was 86. More: https://t.co/sVHhhoGl3S https://t.co/WBFX6Qr1Et

    15K2.2K3484311.7M viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20267.0x their median

    Dallas Mavericks assistant coach Phil Handy is finalizing a deal to become an assistant coach with Philadelphia Sixers head coach Nick Nurse, a source said. Handy previously worked with Nurse in Toronto and with LeBron James with the Cavs and Lakers. Great addition for Nurse. https://t.co/uzD9hYu4Fn

    14K1.7K2076661.3M 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 2.3K interactions against 9.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.025%. Measured over 70 original posts, its engagement rate beats 62% of 3,739 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 283K times each, and 0.819% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.10% 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 70% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 70 posts sampled, 86% carry an image or video and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 46K interactions, about 20x its own typical post.

What is NBA on ESPN's engagement rate on X?
NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) has an engagement rate of 0.025%, based on the median interactions across 70 original posts from the last 30 days against 9,147,179 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.025%, NBA on ESPN sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,378 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 @ESPNNBA have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 62% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @ESPNNBA post?
Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.37 posts per day across the measured window.

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