Telegraph Sport engagement report
@TelegraphSport - 256K followers on X
Measured over 17 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 9, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 256K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 17 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% of 6,874 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 7.0K times each, and 0.086% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.73% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 17 posts sampled, 88% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 68 interactions, about 11x its own typical post.
Measured over 17 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 9, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Telegraph Sport's engagement rate beats 11% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 5% 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%, Telegraph Sport sits above the 10th percentile of the 66,536 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.016%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.016% |
| 50th percentile | 0.1% |
| 75th percentile | 0.5% |
| 90th percentile | 2.09% |
| 99th percentile | 119.7% |
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 07:00 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 | 88% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 88% 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.
- 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 249 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
- Sep 2, 202611x their median
'We have helped keep LIV going through the last few months, but it seems we were working for nothing. It stinks, to be honest.' @jcorrigangolf has spoken to LIV employees on temporary contracts who have not been paid for months ⬇️ https://t.co/2om3VxMRgK https://t.co/Xovq8EOF4k
- Sep 3, 20265.0x their median
Tyson Fury says he believes it was too much, too soon for Moses Itauma. “When you are trying to build somebody into a superstar and beat records, they put them in early, they made a mistake and it’s cost them” Read his interview with @GarethADaviesDT⤵️ https://t.co/aoBNkUqWGr https://t.co/iPB6u6EhRG
- Sep 7, 20262.3x their median
"Either Hamilton is comfortable enough in his relationship with Vasseur that public criticism in this manner is fine, or he is trying to give the Ferrari management a kick up the rear end." Read @lukeslater_ on Hamilton's public criticism of Ferrari ⬇️ https://t.co/jHxNRCOwHf https://t.co/Pzgy7hz8dg
- Sep 1, 20261.8x their median
The US Open is meant to be one of the biggest tennis tournaments. But players are now expected to attend sponsor events, film content and endorse brands, while the tournament increasingly resembles a marketing extravaganza Read @twiggsonia's full take👇 https://t.co/r7rKst6k6C https://t.co/tPYlAmywKV
- Aug 31, 20261.7x their median
'Forget the moth-eaten sporting cliché about Djokovic raging against the dying of the light. Here is a figure whose light is anything but snuffed out in the first place' @oliverbrown_tel argues his first-round exit could be the perfect motivating factor👇 https://t.co/gIM2q5q8qM https://t.co/dEV7bBWlth
- Sep 6, 20261.5x their median
There won't be ring lights and Tiktok dances in the stands at Wimbledon this year as the All England club will clamp down on influencers after US Open chaos ⤵️ https://t.co/9jdEhSe6zP https://t.co/SPJuNzBOKj
- Sep 7, 2026
"I am now looking for a new opponent.” Tyson Fury claims his long-awaited fight against Anthony Joshua is off, and Eddie Hearn is considering legal action against the TKO Group 👇 https://t.co/p7zsfFH7n0 https://t.co/vRa0lHkOOJ
- Sep 4, 2026
Nick Kyrgios’s punishment for a positive doping test has been limited to a single month away from professional tennis after he persuaded investigators that he had taken cocaine out of competition ⤵️ https://t.co/2ACPBzKQQj https://t.co/Oe0Udj6XIa
- Sep 3, 2026
US Open favourite Carlos Alcaraz revealed on Wednesday night that he plans to take breaks of “one month, two months” in the future because of the danger of burnout 🔗 https://t.co/4c69wrYOmW https://t.co/eBxStj1ncX
- Aug 31, 2026
⚽ Tottenham agree deals for Chelsea pair Mudryk and Adarabioyo https://t.co/2y7SZ6b3GX
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 6 interactions against 256K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 17 original posts, its engagement rate beats 11% of 6,874 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 7.0K times each, and 0.086% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.73% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 17 posts sampled, 88% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 68 interactions, about 11x its own typical post.
- What is Telegraph Sport's engagement rate on X?
- Telegraph Sport (@TelegraphSport) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 17 original posts from the last 30 days against 256,098 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, Telegraph Sport sits above the 10th percentile of the 66,536 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 @TelegraphSport have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 11% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 @TelegraphSport post?
- Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.