MLB Trade Rumors engagement report
@mlbtraderumors - 834K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 23, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 54 interactions against 834K followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 23% of 1,224 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 41K times each, and 0.134% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.87% 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 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 98% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 460 interactions, about 8.5x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #dodgers, #angels, #braves.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 23, 2026. Recurring tags: #dodgers, #angels, #braves.
Compared with accounts its own size
MLB Trade Rumors's engagement rate beats 23% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,224 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 5 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 9% 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%, MLB Trade Rumors sits above the 10th percentile of the 13,092 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.008%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.008% |
| 50th percentile | 0.054% |
| 75th percentile | 0.354% |
| 90th percentile | 2.41% |
| 99th percentile | 287.4% |
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 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% | 18K |
| 01:00 UTC | +1% | 18K |
| 02:00 UTC | -1% | 18K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 18K |
| 04:00 UTC | -7% | 15K |
| 05:00 UTC | -6% | 14K |
| 06:00 UTC | -6% | 16K |
| 07:00 UTC | -6% | 17K |
| 08:00 UTC | -6% | 20K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 23K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 25K |
| 11:00 UTC | -2% | 26K |
| 12:00 UTC | 0% | 29K |
| 13:00 UTC | 0% | 33K |
| 14:00 UTC | -2% | 34K |
| 15:00 UTC | -1% | 36K |
| 16:00 UTC | -1% | 35K |
| 17:00 UTC | -1% | 33K |
| 18:00 UTC | +1% | 30K |
| 19:00 UTC | +1% | 28K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 26K |
| 21:00 UTC | +1% | 23K |
| 22:00 UTC | +1% | 20K |
| 23:00 UTC | 0% | 18K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 85K |
| Monday | +2% | 88K |
| Tuesday | +1% | 102K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 87K |
| Thursday | -1% | 82K |
| Friday | -4% | 89K |
| Saturday | +4% | 83K |
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 | 98% of posts | +83% | +77% to +89% | 7.0K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -48% | -50% to -47% | 7.2K |
| Typical length | - | -5% | -7% to -4% | 11K |
- 98% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 83% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 48% 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 111 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 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 22, 20268.5x their median
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- Aug 23, 20264.7x their median
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- Aug 22, 20264.2x their median
For the first time in almost two years, the #STLCards placed a starting pitcher on the IL due to an arm-related issue: https://t.co/uYLussEj7o https://t.co/mxCzK2euic
- Jul 15, 20263.8x their median
Introducing Our MLB Payroll Tracker https://t.co/4d1QVQjL32 https://t.co/H0mQAFa5Na
- Aug 22, 20263.6x their median
Nationals Claim Matt Waldron https://t.co/ChtGp340ET https://t.co/ol2s6nd3XF
- Aug 23, 20263.6x their median
Diamondbacks Designate Zack Littell For Assignment https://t.co/1IuqjGT0PW https://t.co/xF5GSf2rIn
- Aug 23, 20263.2x their median
Dodgers' Tyler Glasnow To Return On Tuesday https://t.co/zsypOCIUEE https://t.co/rl3TAEHhni
- Aug 23, 20262.3x their median
Twins Sign Ron Marinaccio To Minor League Deal https://t.co/hc1xEMs1ON https://t.co/NydL8AHPKG
- Aug 22, 20262.0x their median
Andy Pages To Miss 4-5 Weeks Due To Fractured Hand https://t.co/1RK87hEaV1 https://t.co/g9RNtdwvKE
- Aug 22, 20261.8x their median
Giancarlo Stanton Sustains New Calf Injury https://t.co/IW1H1P56eB https://t.co/9BoCsp2w4L
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 54 interactions against 834K followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 23% of 1,224 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 41K times each, and 0.134% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.87% 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 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 98% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 460 interactions, about 8.5x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #dodgers, #angels, #braves.
- What is MLB Trade Rumors's engagement rate on X?
- MLB Trade Rumors (@mlbtraderumors) has an engagement rate of 0.006%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 833,780 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.006%, MLB Trade Rumors sits above the 10th percentile of the 13,092 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 @mlbtraderumors have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 23% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,224 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 @mlbtraderumors post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.