ESPN MMA engagement report
@espnmma - 1.7M followers on X
Measured over 48 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 24, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 740 interactions against 1.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0.044%. Measured over 48 original posts, its engagement rate beats 62% 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 60K times each, and 1.24% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.60% 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 63% of days. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 48 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 29% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 49K interactions, about 67x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #ufc330, #pflcharlotte, #pfltampa.
Measured over 48 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 24, 2026. Recurring tags: #ufc330, #pflcharlotte, #pfltampa.
Compared with accounts its own size
ESPN MMA's engagement rate beats 62% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 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 54% 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 0.044%, ESPN MMA sits above the 25th percentile of the 10,326 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.007% to 0.048%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.007% |
| 50th percentile | 0.048% |
| 75th percentile | 0.321% |
| 90th percentile | 2.48% |
| 99th percentile | 354.0% |
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 02:00 UTC, and Sunday 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 | 96% of posts | +79% | +73% to +85% | 5.8K |
| Outbound link | 29% of posts | -49% | -50% to -47% | 6.1K |
| Typical length | - | -5% | -7% to -4% | 7.9K |
- 96% 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.
- 29% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 49% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 195 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters run 5% 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 16, 202667x their median
The current combined record of Team Khabib is absolutely ridiculous ๐ณ One manโs vision. Fatherโs Plan ๐ https://t.co/BeS8bxyZsg
- Aug 4, 202639x their median
Brock Lesnar has officially announced his retirement from the WWE on the @PatMcAfeeShow following his loss to Oba Femi at #SummerSlam this past weekend. https://t.co/SYDvhbm1zO
- Aug 16, 202634x their median
Islam Makhachevโs MMA resume: ๐ 29-1 record ๐ Two-division UFC champion ๐ Defended both the lightweight and welterweight title ๐ 17 fight win streak ๐ Seven UFC title fight wins ๐ No. 1-ranked menโs pound-for-pound fighter Heโs making his case as the MMA GOAT ๐ #UFC330 https://t.co/C9cu8qkMES
- Aug 16, 202619x their median
THIS ISLAM KICK OMG ๐ณ #UFC330 https://t.co/AfriraH2Bq
- Aug 16, 202614x their median
HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE ๐ฅ Islam Makhachev has won his 17th straight UFC fight and now owns the longest win streak in the promotions' history, breaking a record that stood for 13 years ๐คฏ https://t.co/wDoz84WlO4
- Aug 17, 20269.4x their median
2026 saw multiple top p4p fighters take losses in title fights as favorites ๐ณ Islam Makhachev survived the year of the upset with his win at #UFC330 ๐ https://t.co/NwFEyikGFu
- Aug 5, 20266.4x their median
Joshua Van will defend his flyweight title against Alexandre Pantoja in the main event at #UFC331, Dana White announced on Wednesday. https://t.co/U8CVMtMi6G
- Aug 16, 20265.6x their median
Khabib coaching Islam before heading to the octagon at #UFC330 ๐ https://t.co/dSGfXNGLXX
- Aug 5, 20265.3x their median
Arman Tsarukyan will face Mauricio Ruffy in a 5-round lightweight co-main event at #UFC331, Dana White announced on Wednesday. The flyweight title rematch between Joshua Van and Alexandre Pantoja will serve as the main event. https://t.co/idUvlvpe0q
- Aug 16, 20265.1x their median
Petr Yan will look to defend his bantamweight title in a trilogy bout against Merab Dvalishvili at UFC 333 in Abu Dhabi, UFC announced during #UFC330. This will serve as the co-main event to Alexander Volkanovski vs. Movsar Evloev. https://t.co/qVuBxivg5K
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
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 740 interactions against 1.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0.044%. Measured over 48 original posts, its engagement rate beats 62% 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 60K times each, and 1.24% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.60% 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 63% of days. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 48 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 29% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 49K interactions, about 67x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #ufc330, #pflcharlotte, #pfltampa.
- What is ESPN MMA's engagement rate on X?
- ESPN MMA (@espnmma) has an engagement rate of 0.044%, based on the median interactions across 48 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,663,634 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.044%, ESPN MMA sits above the 25th percentile of the 10,326 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 @espnmma have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 62% 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 @espnmma post?
- Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.43 posts per day across the measured window.