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Deadspin engagement report

@Deadspin - 733K followers on X

Measured over 79 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 733K followers
Per impression
0.019%
21K views on a typical post
Reach
2.92%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
4
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.7/day
active 50% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 733K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 79 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% of 3,774 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 21K times each, and 0.019% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.92% 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, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 79 posts sampled, 35% carry an image or video and 62% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 911 interactions, about 228x its own typical post.

Measured over 79 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Deadspin's engagement rate beats 6% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 0.001%, Deadspin sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

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p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.433%
p902.10%
p99160.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,654 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,977 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.433%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.5%

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 16:00 UTC, and Friday 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: 16:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 16:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
02:00 UTC-3%50K
03:00 UTC-4%53K
04:00 UTC-6%43K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%48K
07:00 UTC-5%52K
08:00 UTC-4%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
10:00 UTC-2%72K
11:00 UTC-3%78K
12:00 UTC-2%86K
13:00 UTC-2%94K
14:00 UTC-4%97K
15:00 UTC-2%101K
16:00 UTC-3%98K
17:00 UTC-2%91K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-1%80K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-1%57K
23:00 UTC-2%52K
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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%231K
Monday0%288K
Tuesday-2%278K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%245K
Friday-3%253K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 25, 2026228x their median

    Big Ben on The Browns choosing Deshaun Watson as the Starting Quarterback: “Just like their playoff hopes it ended early before it even started.” 😂😂 https://t.co/FhdBjlc6S1

    78869342071K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 2026105x their median

    Did Al Michaels just take a shot at Donald Trump? “That is Lake Erie. We think it is still called Lake Erie... We're not quite sure at this point. But we'll be by Lake something like Ontario or whatever it's going to be called. You know what I'm talking about... Read the news.” https://t.co/GgnZCgBWsp

    3712719369K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202645x their median

    Oldest trick in the book https://t.co/Mc8OkY9J3a

    163132346K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 202635x their median

    Enes Kanter got ejected from a WNBA game tonight for arguing with the players. What’re we doing? https://t.co/fQ9fQwghnE

    8133322112K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202628x their median

    Cam Ward got into it with a reporter about his play in the preseason: https://t.co/yh4TgSDCTk

    94810148K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 202626x their median

    The Bengals making players cross the road to get to their practice facility will never not be funny https://t.co/0pRPypaKlN

    82613365K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 202623x their median

    A career-ending robotics injury. One of the first of its kind https://t.co/W5N8u0BKRZ

    72106491K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 202619x their median

    Pittsburgh Pirates tarps off is pretty legendary. https://t.co/47P9lwToSH

    6184150K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 202618x their median

    Congrats on a great career, Nick Chubb https://t.co/R71i7vjUpF

    6641026K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 202618x their median

    Ravens head coach Jesse Minter rapping Eminem https://t.co/PcLfEoNfUZ

    56112227K 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 4 interactions against 733K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 79 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% of 3,774 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 21K times each, and 0.019% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.92% 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, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 79 posts sampled, 35% carry an image or video and 62% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 911 interactions, about 228x its own typical post.

What is Deadspin's engagement rate on X?
Deadspin (@Deadspin) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 79 original posts from the last 30 days against 733,128 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, Deadspin sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 @Deadspin have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 6% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% 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 @Deadspin post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.7 posts per day across the measured window.

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