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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

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.002%
of 7.4M followers
Per impression
0.12%
106K views on a typical post
Reach
1.44%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
128
interactions (median)
Saved
0.006%
6 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
5.97/day
active 47% of days
Peak time
01:00 UTC
Sunday

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%.

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p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.432%
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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 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 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

    3.3K1714010589K viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 202625x their median

    This @celtics trio ๐Ÿ”ฅ 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

    2.7K3433441487K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    2.5K3093145492K viewsView on X
  • 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

    2.3K2852439729K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202619x their median

    โ€œSheโ€™s trusting her work.โ€ ๐Ÿ‘ @StephanieReady and Teresa Weatherspoon highlight the offensive strides Angel Reese has made this season. https://t.co/EFRi6Nj4PK

    1.5K237546140865K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    1.9K112163535K viewsView on X
  • Aug 16, 202610x their median

    โ€œMy voice is already raspy... I want you guys to know a couple quick things. This isnโ€™t 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 ๐Ÿ˜† Watch the Class of 2026 Enshrinement Ceremony on NBA TV and the NBA App.

    1.2K74238494K viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 20269.4x their median

    Kevin Garnett has arrived ๐Ÿ˜Ž Watch the Class of 2026 Enshrinement Ceremony at 7:00pm/et on NBA TV and the NBA App. https://t.co/TA58A2dtei

    1.1K79265433K viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 20267.1x their median

    Amar'e Stoudemire arrives at the @Hoophall Class of 2026 Enshrinement Ceremony Red Carpet ๐Ÿ”ฅ Watch the Enshrinement Ceremony at 7:00pm/et on NBA TV and the NBA App. https://t.co/a5lCsXLo9g

    82653296385K viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 20266.3x their median

    Doc Rivers will be enshrined into the @Hoophall tonight ๐Ÿคฉ Watch the Class of 2026 Enshrinement Ceremony at 7:00pm/et on NBA TV and the NBA App. https://t.co/shPjBU2sIZ

    73248185345K 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 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.

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