Sky Sports News engagement report
@SkySportsNews - 13M followers on X
Measured over 287 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 2.7K interactions against 13M followers, an engagement rate of 0.021%. Measured over 287 original posts, its engagement rate beats 59% of 3,739 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 402K times each, and 0.683% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.15% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 12.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 287 posts sampled, 98% carry an image or video and 14% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 47K interactions, about 17x its own typical post.
Measured over 287 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Sky Sports News's engagement rate beats 59% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 46% 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 0.021%, Sky Sports News sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.431% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 09:00 UTC, and Friday 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% | 51K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 71K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 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% | 229K |
| Monday | 0% | 284K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 273K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 250K |
| Thursday | -2% | 243K |
| Friday | -3% | 251K |
| Saturday | +3% | 226K |
Best tweets
- Aug 23, 202617x their median
BREAKING: Carlos Baleba has passed his Manchester United medical. The midfielder has signed a five-year contract with an option to extend until 2032 🚨 https://t.co/2pE0m016GO
- Aug 21, 202612x their median
BREAKING: Roberto De Zerbi names Micky van de Ven the new Tottenham Hotspur captain🚨 https://t.co/X2G3JFNGj6
- Aug 16, 20268.9x their median
Man City head coach Enzo Maresca has confirmed Ruben Dias and Erling Haaland as his club captains for the time being 🚨 https://t.co/ATa9ut3SW9
- Aug 21, 20268.5x their median
BREAKING: Manchester United have agreed a deal with Brighton for Carlos Baleba. The fee is £65m plus £5m in add-ons 🚨 https://t.co/fLTvm6rssx
- Aug 14, 20267.1x their median
BREAKING: The verbal acceptable terms and conditions that were made available to Enzo Fernandez's representatives for potential interested clubs at the end of May is now off the table and it is expected that the midfielder will be at Chelsea for the 2026/27 season 🚨 https://t.co/LVNPPoLwEP
- Aug 31, 20267.1x their median
Arsenal target Julian Alvarez returned to group training at Atletico Madrid on Sunday as the deadline for a decision over his future passed ⚽️ https://t.co/juW3eJsMQ1
- Aug 25, 20266.9x their median
"I'm proud of myself" 🗣️ Manchester City's Nico O'Reilly on being nominated for PFA Young Player of the season 🏆 https://t.co/sTxS0bAkbK
- Aug 16, 20266.5x their median
BREAKING: Barcelona agree deal to sign Rodri from Man City for £65.4m 🚨 Man City had been looking for him to sign a new contract, but midfielder made it clear he would prefer to move back to Spain this summer, despite having one more year left on his contract 🇪🇸 https://t.co/pO0LfxlJIO
- Aug 27, 20265.9x their median
BREAKING: Liverpool have reached an outline agreement in principle with Paris Saint Germain to sign Bradley Barcola for a package worth £120m 🚨 https://t.co/cI0CetCBRF
- Aug 21, 20265.8x their median
"We are very good friends until Monday night". Alvaro Arbeloa on speaking with Xabi Alonso ahead of Fulham's clash against Chelsea ⚔️ https://t.co/XYnwrjwB0w
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 2.7K interactions against 13M followers, an engagement rate of 0.021%. Measured over 287 original posts, its engagement rate beats 59% of 3,739 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 402K times each, and 0.683% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.15% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 12.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 287 posts sampled, 98% carry an image or video and 14% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 47K interactions, about 17x its own typical post.
- What is Sky Sports News's engagement rate on X?
- Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) has an engagement rate of 0.021%, based on the median interactions across 287 original posts from the last 30 days against 12,773,528 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.021%, Sky Sports News sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,261 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 @SkySportsNews have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 59% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @SkySportsNews post?
- Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 12.83 posts per day across the measured window.