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Backstreet Boys engagement report

@backstreetboys - 974K followers on X

Measured over 21 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 16, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.095%
of 974K followers
Per impression
3.19%
29K views on a typical post
Reach
2.99%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
929
interactions (median)
Saved
0.089%
26 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.77/day
active 67% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 929 interactions against 974K followers, an engagement rate of 0.095%. Measured over 21 original posts, its engagement rate beats 72% of 15,519 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 29K times each, and 3.19% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.99% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.77 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 21 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 38% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 12K interactions, about 13x its own typical post.

Measured over 21 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 16, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Backstreet Boys's engagement rate beats 72% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 82% 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 0.095%, Backstreet Boys sits above the 25th percentile of the 156,282 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.022% to 0.127%.

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Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 156,282 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 25,969 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 percentile0.003%
25th percentile0.022%
50th percentile0.127%
75th percentile0.604%
90th percentile2.32%
99th percentile83.1%

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 17:00 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: 17:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 17:00 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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link38% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 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.
  • 38% 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 158 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

  • Aug 4, 202613x their median

    It finally happened… iykyk https://t.co/wpq9Jxs1pp

    9.9K1.4K139253601K viewsView on X
  • Jun 30, 20263.5x their median

    On this day in 1997, we released “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” and somehow it became a Halloween anthem. Who knew!? 👻 https://t.co/kG25olicTg

    2.6K585625163K viewsView on X
  • Jun 12, 20262.7x their median

    Let the adventure begin. “Bottle Up” from the upcoming @PAWPatrolMovie: The Dino Movie is OUT NOW! Listen & sing along to the music video at https://t.co/khPwIumPcu! 🐾🦖🌋 PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie is available in theatres August 14. #PAWPatrolMovie https://t.co/jeiVbwkHkv

    1.7K6337575107K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 20262.3x their median

    Our world changed forever on September 11, 2001. Twenty five years later we still honor those that lost their lives and the heroes that responded. Hug your loved ones a little tighter today. We will never forget. Photo courtesy of @Sept11Memorial https://t.co/ZhDqzaLQKa

    1.8K25634733K viewsView on X
  • Jul 2, 20262.3x their median

    Sun’s out, guns out. ☀️💪 https://t.co/W4Zw0WCayo

    1.8K224531541K viewsView on X
  • Jun 14, 20262.2x their median

    Can somebody step up to the bar and buy ‘Never Gone’ a drink because today the album turns 21 years old! After taking some much needed time apart after nearly 10 years of nonstop touring, we came back together and recorded this album. Nobody expected it to sound the way it did but we are proud of it and have heard from so many of you over the years that it’s your favorite album. Just want you to know that… We still love you; We still care about you Though everything’s been said and done… Without you we’d be incomplete.

    1.5K359985432K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 20262.0x their median

    Happy Birthday Howard!!! Thank you for working on your birthday, and thank you to everyone at @SphereVegas for celebrating with us. 🌐🩵🤍 https://t.co/uxViWA4Kxo

    1.5K234392537K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 20261.9x their median

    Welcome to Team BSB, @PatrickMahomes! 🏈 https://t.co/oYWJOxGVLK

    1.6K162291748K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20261.7x their median

    POV: @NickCarter shows you what true love means https://t.co/N6J1HAFpQz

    1.3K207573040K viewsView on X
  • Jun 9, 20261.7x their median

    We’re so excited to announce that our new single “Bottle Up” from ‘Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie’ will finally be yours this Fri June 12! Tune in to @CBSMornings Friday at 8am to catch the world premiere of the “Bottle Up” music video! Don’t forget to TAKE THIS MOMENT and pre-save the song so you can be first to hear it when it drops at midnight! https://t.co/74KwklGyWJ  @PAWPatrolMovie: The Dino Movie is in theatres August 14. 🐾🌋🦖 #PAWPatrolMovie

    1.2K296583052K 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 929 interactions against 974K followers, an engagement rate of 0.095%. Measured over 21 original posts, its engagement rate beats 72% of 15,519 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 29K times each, and 3.19% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.99% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.77 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 21 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 38% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 12K interactions, about 13x its own typical post.

What is Backstreet Boys's engagement rate on X?
Backstreet Boys (@backstreetboys) has an engagement rate of 0.095%, based on the median interactions across 21 original posts from the last 30 days against 973,664 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.095%, Backstreet Boys sits above the 25th percentile of the 156,282 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 @backstreetboys have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 72% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 @backstreetboys post?
Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.77 posts per day across the measured window.

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