Mike Trudell engagement report
@LakersReporter - 502K followers on X
Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 19, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 265 interactions against 502K followers, an engagement rate of 0.053%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 60% of 19,932 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 18K times each, and 1.44% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.67% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 6% carry an image or video and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.4K interactions, about 26x its own typical post.
Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 19, 2026. Recurring tag: #lakers.
Compared with accounts its own size
Mike Trudell's engagement rate beats 60% 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 58% 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 0.053%, Mike Trudell sits above the 25th percentile of the 201,342 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.141%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.141% |
| 75th percentile | 0.671% |
| 90th percentile | 2.53% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 02:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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 | 6% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 13% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 6% 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.
- 13% 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 204 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
- May 24, 202626x their median
Luka Dončić was named to the All-NBA First Team for the 6th time. Only 4 other players in NBA history have done so by age 27: Tim Duncan (7); LeBron (6); Oscar Robertson (6); and Bob Pettit (6).  Dončić led the NBA in scoring (33.5 ppg), ranked 3rd in assists (8.3) and 6th in steals (1.6).
- May 12, 202621x their median
LeBron on Austin Reaves: “Seeing AR grow over five years has been nothing short of amazing. He’s a hard worker, he loves the game, he wants to get better and he’s not afraid of constructive criticism. I saw the talent, but also saw that he was willing to put the work in and wasn’t afraid of the moment. To see where he is today is awesome.”
- May 12, 202617x their median
With the completion of Rob Pelinka and JJ Redick’s press conference, we can officially put a bow on the 2025-26 Lakers season. Big thanks to you all for following along once again!
- May 12, 202614x their median
JJ Redick: "We need to build depth beyond just an 8- or 9-man rotation. Maybe 5 games out of the 92 games we played, it was something that I'd planned over the offseason. It really is about building that depth."
- May 12, 202614x their median
Redick: "I didn't want our season to end. I wanted this to keep going. I enjoyed every bit of this, this year."
- May 12, 202611x their median
JJ Redick called Rui Hachimura's shooting transformative, in that it allows him to be an efficient scorer and to elevate his teammates due to the attention he demands. Hachimura finished the season with 15 straight games of 50% or better from 3, including all 10 playoff games.
- Sep 30, 20264.0x their median
Redick said Matisse Thybulle is really a unique player, where it’s not easy to replicate what he does as a young guy trying to learn. Early in camp, Thybulle has lived up to his reputation in terms of getting a ton of steals while hounding passing lanes,
- May 12, 20267.8x their median
Pelinka on Austin Reaves: "He started his NBA odyssey right here (on the Lakers practice court at a pre-draft workout). He has made it very clear to us that he wants his journey to continue as a Laker … we want the same thing, (for him to) continue in Purple and Gold. Both sides have made (the desire for him to remain a Laker) abundantly clear.”
- May 12, 20267.6x their median
LeBron James on what's next: "I don’t know, obviously. We’re still fresh from losing. I don’t know what the future holds for me. As it stands right now tonight … I’ll go back and recalibrate with my family and talk to them, spend some time with them, and when the time comes, you guys will know what I decide to do.”
- May 12, 20267.1x their median
Rob Pelinka cited the optionality that the Lakers have this offseason in terms of cap space/free agency, the draft and/or trades. He summarized that "The archetype of the roster we want is going to be retrofitted around Luka and what he needs."
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.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 265 interactions against 502K followers, an engagement rate of 0.053%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 60% of 19,932 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 18K times each, and 1.44% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.67% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 6% carry an image or video and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.4K interactions, about 26x its own typical post.
- What is Mike Trudell's engagement rate on X?
- Mike Trudell (@LakersReporter) has an engagement rate of 0.053%, based on the median interactions across 31 original posts from the last 30 days against 502,326 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.053%, Mike Trudell sits above the 25th percentile of the 201,342 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 @LakersReporter have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 60% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 @LakersReporter post?
- Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.