NBA TV engagement report
@NBATV - 7.4M followers on X
Measured over 72 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 128 interactions against 7.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 72 original posts, its engagement rate beats 23% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 106K times each, and 0.12% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.44% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 72 posts sampled, 99% carry an image or video and 26% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.6K interactions, about 28x its own typical post.
Measured over 72 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
NBA TV's engagement rate beats 23% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 11% 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 0.002%, NBA TV sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,378 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.432% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 161.0% |
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 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 15, 202628x their median
James Harden is here! Watch the Class of 2026 Enshrinement Ceremony on NBA TV and the NBA App. https://t.co/XWqhLjZen5
- Aug 15, 202625x their median
This @celtics trio ๐ฅ 2008 NBA champions Ray Allen, Paul Pierce & Kevin Garnett in the house to present their Coach Doc Rivers for his @Hoophall enshrinement! Watch the Class of 2026 Enshrinement Ceremony on NBA TV and the NBA App. https://t.co/FkxbETaczV
- Aug 16, 202622x their median
"My philosophy had to change to maximize this guy, James Harden... he's one of the most skilled players I have ever coached and I appreciate the trust he gave me." Mike D'Antoni shouts out @JHarden13 who is in attendance for his @Hoophall enshrinement speech! Watch the Class of 2026 Enshrinement Ceremony on NBA TV and the NBA App.
- Aug 16, 202620x their median
Doc Rivers reflects on coaching Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and Paul Pierce and the @celticsโ 2008 NBA championship during his @Hoophall enshrinement speech! https://t.co/vY44KOq9vk
- Aug 29, 202619x their median
โSheโs trusting her work.โ ๐ @StephanieReady and Teresa Weatherspoon highlight the offensive strides Angel Reese has made this season. https://t.co/EFRi6Nj4PK
- Aug 16, 202616x their median
"If you can be a coach, and coach your players hard, and they know it comes from a loving place, you can be really successful in this business." Doc Rivers on what he learned from coaching his son, Austin, in the NBA! Watch the Class of 2026 Enshrinement Ceremony on NBA TV and the NBA App.
- Aug 16, 202610x their median
โMy voice is already raspy... I want you guys to know a couple quick things. This isnโt my real voice. Coaching stole it from me... I swear I used to have a high voice and use to be able to really sing, can't do that anymore." Doc Rivers speaks on his 'raspy' voice during his @Hoophall enshrinement speech ๐ Watch the Class of 2026 Enshrinement Ceremony on NBA TV and the NBA App.
- Aug 15, 20269.4x their median
Kevin Garnett has arrived ๐ Watch the Class of 2026 Enshrinement Ceremony at 7:00pm/et on NBA TV and the NBA App. https://t.co/TA58A2dtei
- Aug 15, 20267.1x their median
Amar'e Stoudemire arrives at the @Hoophall Class of 2026 Enshrinement Ceremony Red Carpet ๐ฅ Watch the Enshrinement Ceremony at 7:00pm/et on NBA TV and the NBA App. https://t.co/a5lCsXLo9g
- Aug 15, 20266.3x their median
Doc Rivers will be enshrined into the @Hoophall tonight ๐คฉ Watch the Class of 2026 Enshrinement Ceremony at 7:00pm/et on NBA TV and the NBA App. https://t.co/shPjBU2sIZ
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 128 interactions against 7.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 72 original posts, its engagement rate beats 23% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 106K times each, and 0.12% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.44% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 72 posts sampled, 99% carry an image or video and 26% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.6K interactions, about 28x its own typical post.
- What is NBA TV's engagement rate on X?
- NBA TV (@NBATV) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 72 original posts from the last 30 days against 7,384,973 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, NBA TV sits above the 10th 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 @NBATV have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 23% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size 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 @NBATV post?
- Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 5.97 posts per day across the measured window.