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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

Per follower
0.104%
of 4.1M followers
Per impression
3.77%
113K views on a typical post
Reach
2.76%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
4.2K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.075%
85 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.37/day
active 27% of days
Peak time
21:00 UTC
Monday

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%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.677%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,583 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,891 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.677%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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.

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: 21:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 21:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Monday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link33% 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 πŸ‘€ https://t.co/kLxVWUQ66k

    9.1K62217946575K viewsView on X
  • 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

    6.2K677113139553K viewsView on X
  • 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

    3.8K3428030113K viewsView on X
  • Sep 25, 20211.6x their median

    It’s been a trip. πŸ”œ 9.28.21 @PTI https://t.co/BmMLjHewAu

    3.0K319493110View on X
  • 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 ⬇️ https://t.co/i1w1i2WSaY

    2.8K13735486K viewsView on X
  • 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

    2.1K2377757605K viewsView on X
  • 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 πŸ€ https://t.co/eZJwqNbDL5

    2.2K126256129K viewsView on X
  • 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

    2.0K2483110308K viewsView on X
  • Jun 11, 2026

    "It is the most stunning game I've ever seen." @realmikeWilbon reacts to the WILD ending in Game 4 πŸ€ https://t.co/i6WS6y1k7H

    1.7K8234061K viewsView on X
  • 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 πŸ€ https://t.co/PfwTRAuST7

    1.4K64706233K 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 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.

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