Michael Wilbon engagement report
@RealMikeWilbon - 4.1M followers on X
Measured over 3 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 3 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.
A typical post picks up 4.2K interactions against 4.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.104%. Posts are seen about 113K times each, and 3.77% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.76% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.37 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 3 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 10.0K interactions. Only 3 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
Measured over 3 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.104%, Michael Wilbon sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,583 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.677% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 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 21:00 UTC, and Monday 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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 33% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 100% 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.
- 33% 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 216 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
- Apr 29, 2026
.@RealMikeWilbon shares a private conversation with Michael Jordan about LeBron James π https://t.co/kLxVWUQ66k
- Oct 15, 20261.7x their median
Pardon the announcement...join us Thursday, October 22nd at 5PM ET for our 25th anniversary special! https://t.co/wuZuSaYCBM
- Oct 19, 2026
We'll celebrate our 25th anniversary this Thursday at 5pm ET on ESPN, followed by our regular show at the regular time of 5:30pm ET. Please join us for both! https://t.co/d2ZChYX9fV
- Sep 25, 20211.6x their median
Itβs been a trip. π 9.28.21 @PTI https://t.co/BmMLjHewAu
- May 20, 2026
"If you're just waking up and you turned it off at the start of the fourth quarter. Boy have we got a surprise in store for you!" @Espngreeny and Co. recap Knicks vs. Cavaliers in Game 1 β¬οΈ https://t.co/i1w1i2WSaY
- Sep 22, 2026
Congratulations to @PTI's Tony Kornheiser & @RealMikeWilbon on being named recipients of the 43rd Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism by @Cronkite_ASU The ESPN duo will be honored Feb. 16, 2027 in Phoenix More: https://t.co/Jq5lr1jP4a https://t.co/q4zZgYlxJD
- May 19, 2026
"It was historic. ... This dude is 22, and he's doing this." @RealMikeWilbon reacts to Wemby's performance in their Game 1 win vs. the Thunder π https://t.co/eZJwqNbDL5
- Dec 11, 2025
As @espn celebrates the life and career of Stuart Scott on 30 for 30's premiere of 'Boo-Yah' tonight, here is my own remembrance of my friend and colleague... https://t.co/9JisFs3Evo
- Jun 11, 2026
"It is the most stunning game I've ever seen." @realmikeWilbon reacts to the WILD ending in Game 4 π https://t.co/i6WS6y1k7H
- May 27, 2026
"One team is new to this, the Spurs, and one team isn't. ... You don't necessarily want the champs. ... Right now, I think the Knicks would want the Spurs." β@RealMikeWilbon on who the Knicks should want to play in the NBA Finals π https://t.co/PfwTRAuST7
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 4.2K interactions against 4.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.104%. Posts are seen about 113K times each, and 3.77% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.76% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.37 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 3 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 10.0K interactions. Only 3 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
- What is Michael Wilbon's engagement rate on X?
- Michael Wilbon (@RealMikeWilbon) has an engagement rate of 0.104%, based on the median interactions across 3 original posts from the last 30 days against 4,076,457 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.104%, Michael Wilbon sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,583 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 @RealMikeWilbon have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @RealMikeWilbon post?
- Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.37 posts per day across the measured window.