Zach Lowe engagement report
@ZachLowe_NBA - 990K followers on X
Measured over 12 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 19, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 125 interactions against 990K followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 12 original posts, its engagement rate beats 42% of 1,003 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 317K times each, and 0.039% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 32.0% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 12 posts sampled, 25% carry an image or video and 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 329 interactions, about 2.6x its own typical post.
Measured over 12 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 19, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Zach Lowe's engagement rate beats 42% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 2% 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 0.013%, Zach Lowe sits above the 25th percentile of the 11,687 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.007% to 0.051%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.007% |
| 50th percentile | 0.051% |
| 75th percentile | 0.341% |
| 90th percentile | 2.48% |
| 99th percentile | 309.4% |
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 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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 | 0% | 15K |
| 01:00 UTC | +4% | 15K |
| 02:00 UTC | -1% | 14K |
| 03:00 UTC | -2% | 15K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 05:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 06:00 UTC | -7% | 13K |
| 07:00 UTC | -6% | 14K |
| 08:00 UTC | -7% | 17K |
| 09:00 UTC | -2% | 19K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 20K |
| 11:00 UTC | -2% | 22K |
| 12:00 UTC | -1% | 24K |
| 13:00 UTC | +1% | 27K |
| 14:00 UTC | -2% | 29K |
| 15:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 16:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 17:00 UTC | -1% | 28K |
| 18:00 UTC | +1% | 25K |
| 19:00 UTC | 0% | 24K |
| 20:00 UTC | 0% | 22K |
| 21:00 UTC | +1% | 19K |
| 22:00 UTC | +1% | 17K |
| 23:00 UTC | +1% | 15K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +8% | 59K |
| Monday | +8% | 72K |
| Tuesday | +1% | 94K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 78K |
| Thursday | -3% | 71K |
| Friday | -5% | 73K |
| Saturday | +2% | 64K |
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 | 25% of posts | +79% | +73% to +85% | 5.8K |
| Outbound link | 67% of posts | -49% | -50% to -47% | 6.1K |
| Typical length | - | -7% | -8% to -5% | 9.0K |
- 25% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 79% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 67% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 49% 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 178 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 7% 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
- Jul 30, 20262.6x 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
- Aug 10, 20262.5x their median
https://t.co/UliDcDC0HB
- Aug 17, 20261.8x their median
And no, that's not a Mets shirt, @ZachLowe_NBA. It's a Mobb Deep shirt. Full YouTube show w/Tim Connelly and Matt Lloyd: https://t.co/3aM1MrAuD8
- Aug 4, 20261.6x their median
New Zach Lowe Show: The 2026-27 NBA Player Pressure rankings, Part 1 -- plus last thoughts on LeBron and Kawhi and a deep-dive preview on (remember them?) the Indiana Pacers -- w/ @kirkgoldsberry: Spotify: https://t.co/nkFCmB8WjP
- Aug 1, 2026
Heads up from Europe! There is a two-part ZL Show that we will spread over the next two Tuesdays (at least that is the plan now). Happy summer!
- Jul 28, 2026
New Zach Lowe Show: LeBron fallout; Draymond re-signs; are the Warriors blowing the end of Steph's career?; fake Steph trades; volatility among last year's play-in crew (Blazers/Suns/Warriors); Mets Corner first pitch/trade deadline edition: Spotify: https://t.co/owuNTRk48z
- Aug 2, 2026
At least the Freddy Peralta era was a bit better than the Ryan Helsley era.
- Jul 30, 2026
HEARTLAND has gone into a second printing—and she got a glow-up to go with it. Thanks for reading, everyone! Without you, this wouldn’t be possible. The new books should be in stores soon. Go and get ‘em! https://t.co/8V6HStXc1C
- Jul 26, 2026
New Zach Lowe Show (but taped on Friday)! LeBron is a Sixer! A dazed @ChrisRyan77 with a visceral Philly reaction; @MichaelVPina helps sort out the basketball issues. How will this work? Where do the Sixers fit in the beefed up East? Spotify: https://t.co/I144HLLi5w
- Aug 11, 2026
New Zach Lowe Show: The 2026-27 NBA Player Pressure Rankings, Part II -- w/ @kirkgoldsberry. Who rounds out our respective top-5s? Plus -- lots of other NBA asides: Spotify: https://t.co/dyRD2CERC7
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 125 interactions against 990K followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 12 original posts, its engagement rate beats 42% of 1,003 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 317K times each, and 0.039% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 32.0% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 12 posts sampled, 25% carry an image or video and 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 329 interactions, about 2.6x its own typical post.
- What is Zach Lowe's engagement rate on X?
- Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) has an engagement rate of 0.013%, based on the median interactions across 12 original posts from the last 30 days against 989,874 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.013%, Zach Lowe sits above the 25th percentile of the 11,687 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 42% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 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 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.93 posts per day across the measured window.