The Ringer engagement report
@ringer - 530K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 16, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 32 interactions against 530K followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 20,444 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 25K times each, and 0.128% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.78% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video, 5% are part of a thread and 55% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.9K interactions, about 60x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #fdpartner, #tnf, #raisetheroof.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 16, 2026. Recurring tags: #fdpartner, #tnf, #raisetheroof.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Ringer's engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 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%, The Ringer sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,374 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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 | 53% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 55% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 53% 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.
- 55% 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 188 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
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
- Oct 15, 202660x their median
"I'm all in on Indiana." "I think the Pacers are really scary." @BillSimmons believes the Pacers are this year's biggest sleeper in the NBA. https://t.co/mTQDF6sEnS
- Aug 21, 202659x their median
“We coddle professional sports.” @DKThomp breaks down the conditions that allow sports owners to swindle over cities and fans. https://t.co/ZHvIip2wXb
- Sep 3, 202642x their median
“This was a phenomenal level of incompetence from [Steve] Ballmer and the Clippers.” @BillSimmons reacts to the Clippers’ punishments and explains why the team and fans have hit a new rock bottom. https://t.co/tNEcoJ0VTR
- Oct 14, 202629x their median
“I’m not sure guys are at the right points of their career for a team like this.” @BillSimmons on why he’s nervous about the Sixers and whether they’ll be able to manage their star-loaded roster during the regular season. https://t.co/I4NoY9rcN0
- Sep 2, 202629x their median
“I was in search of something I never got at the University of Florida.” Cam Newton explains what went into his 2010 season on @RingerTailgate. Presented by @FanDuel. https://t.co/cNwYAYC3T5
- Aug 24, 202628x their median
The pods are podding this morning! https://t.co/y3mg7RjskY
- Sep 16, 202627x their median
Are we witnessing the sports city theory in real time with New York right now? 🤔 https://t.co/HfRa43bV74
- Oct 16, 202623x their median
Is this the greatest pass of all time? 🤔 Cam Johnson breaks down one of Nikola Jokic's greatest passes ever and what makes him unstoppable. https://t.co/aIw96vKgjc
- Aug 24, 202620x their median
“You have it. This is the worst one ever.” @BillSimmons and @HousefromDC on the worst NFL trade of all time: the Browns' trade for Deshaun Watson. https://t.co/j9mcnURZ77
- Oct 15, 202616x their median
"I think last year was just a crazy aberration." @BillSimmons and @ZachLowe_NBA on whether OKC's loss to the Spurs in the WCF was an aberration or if they're the Thunder's kryptonite? https://t.co/NLFUMagsk1
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 32 interactions against 530K followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 20,444 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 25K times each, and 0.128% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.78% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video, 5% are part of a thread and 55% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.9K interactions, about 60x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #fdpartner, #tnf, #raisetheroof.
- What is The Ringer's engagement rate on X?
- The Ringer (@ringer) has an engagement rate of 0.006%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 530,057 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.006%, The Ringer sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,374 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 @ringer have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @ringer post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.7 posts per day across the measured window.