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Zach Lowe engagement report

@ZachLowe_NBA - 988K followers on X

Measured over 12 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 10, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.006%
of 988K followers
Per impression
0.052%
111K views on a typical post
Reach
11.2%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
58
interactions (median)
Saved
0.002%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.4/day
active 57% of days
Peak time
20:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 58 interactions against 988K followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 12 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 19,932 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 111K times each, and 0.052% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 11.2% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 12 posts sampled, 8% carry an image or video and 50% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.7K interactions, about 98x its own typical post.

Measured over 12 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 10, 2026. Recurring tag: #lfgm.

Compared with accounts its own size

Zach Lowe's engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 3% 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 0.006%, Zach Lowe sits above the 10th percentile of the 201,665 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.142%
p750.671%
p902.53%
p9982.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 201,665 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,911 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 percentile0.142%
75th percentile0.671%
90th percentile2.53%
99th percentile82.5%

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 20:00 UTC, and Thursday 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: 20:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 20:00 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video8% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link50% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 8% 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.
  • 50% 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 177 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below the same accounts' other posts.

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, 202698x their median

    Emergency ZL Show coming later tonight, but one detail for now -- sources say that in 2029 the Clippers will be forfeiting the Indiana Pacers pick obtained via the Zubac trade, but that the pick will not be returned to the Pacers.

    5.1K257110205673K viewsView on X
  • Sep 2, 202670x their median

    It's happening: Per sources, the Brooklyn Nets will be holding a Swamp Dragons night on Jan. 29 as part of a series of "eras nights" celebrating franchise history. There will be merchandise, I'm told.

    3.7K16462112771K viewsView on X
  • Sep 13, 202636x their median

    Happy Sunday morning! The fourth-place New York Mets have a better run differential than every team in the American League West. Analytically we are a playoff team!

    1.9K705217109K viewsView on X
  • Sep 23, 202622x their median

    Pete Alonso extends the @Orioles lead with a 2-run shot 🐻‍❄️ https://t.co/4gBdpOtdDu

    1.1K923735591K viewsView on X
  • Jul 25, 202617x their median

    Now that you've had some time to listen to the instant reaction on the BS pod -- new ZL Show coming this afternoon on LeBron/all the ramifications. Recorded yesterday. Guests include: @ChrisRyan77's instant and visceral fan reaction. Look for it around 4 pm EST

    93116141193K viewsView on X
  • Jul 28, 202614x their median

    DO NOT TRADE FRANCISCO LINDOR

    73630205112K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 202612x their median

    Sources say there is *no* escalator clause/s in Amen Thompson's extension -- first reported by @ShamsCharania -- if he were to make All-NBA or win Defensive Player of the year. Deal is below Thompson's max potential deal but still a ton of money obviously.

    62947911107K viewsView on X
  • Jul 30, 20265.7x their median

    What if OKC had kept Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and James Harden? Excited to announce my next book, WHEN WE WERE YOUNG AND FEARLESS, coming 11/3—a deep dive into the trio that reshaped the NBA. Pre-order link: https://t.co/qewyfmP3zQ https://t.co/JYgD1NMSrk

    253271435269K viewsView on X
  • Aug 10, 20262.5x their median

    https://t.co/UliDcDC0HB

    310422339K viewsView on X
  • Sep 8, 20264.2x their median

    I am enjoying the Mets. (If they lose this game, blame this tweet).

    233242130K 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.

Recurring topics

#lfgm

The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 58 interactions against 988K followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 12 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 19,932 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 111K times each, and 0.052% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 11.2% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 12 posts sampled, 8% carry an image or video and 50% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.7K interactions, about 98x its own typical post.

What is Zach Lowe's engagement rate on X?
Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) has an engagement rate of 0.006%, based on the median interactions across 12 original posts from the last 30 days against 988,194 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.006%, Zach Lowe sits above the 10th percentile of the 201,665 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 @ZachLowe_NBA have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 @ZachLowe_NBA post?
Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.4 posts per day across the measured window.

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