NBA on ESPN engagement report
@ESPNNBA - 9.1M followers on X
Measured over 70 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 2.3K interactions against 9.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.025%. Measured over 70 original posts, its engagement rate beats 62% of 3,739 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 283K times each, and 0.819% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.10% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 70 posts sampled, 86% carry an image or video and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 46K interactions, about 20x its own typical post.
Measured over 70 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
NBA on ESPN's engagement rate beats 62% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 51% 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 0.025%, NBA on ESPN sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.431% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 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% | 51K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 71K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 229K |
| Monday | 0% | 284K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 273K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 250K |
| Thursday | -2% | 243K |
| Friday | -3% | 251K |
| Saturday | +3% | 226K |
Best tweets
- Aug 14, 202620x their median
Just in: The Cleveland Cavaliers are trading Dennis Schroder and cash to the Charlotte Hornets for Tre Mann, sources tell ESPN. https://t.co/MNhjejPxJQ
- Aug 12, 202616x their median
Brodie retires as the triple-double king 👑 https://t.co/rlxSgJIqC5
- Aug 26, 202611x their median
The new-look Wolves 👀 https://t.co/i2NiII4ltf
- Aug 20, 202610x their median
New-look Lakers 🔥 (via @lukadoncic) https://t.co/vJXEW6Vi3M
- Aug 12, 202610x their median
THANKSGIVING EVE ON ESPN IS STACKED 🔥 https://t.co/29f0ZDgrLV
- Aug 21, 202610x their median
Klay Thompson and Andrew Wiggins are reunited in Miami 🔥 https://t.co/NsrlXmYrZ9
- Aug 6, 20269.0x their median
Phoenix Suns forward Dillon Brooks has agreed to a three-year, $73 million contract extension through 2029-30, Mike George of Klutch Sports tells ESPN. Brooks has become a key part of the Suns two-way, hard-nosed culture under Jordan Ott and lands a new guaranteed long-term deal. https://t.co/loV1DWs2z5
- Aug 6, 20268.9x their median
Lonnie Walker IV has agreed to a one-year, $3.3 million deal with the Denver Nuggets, agent George S. Langberg of @GSLSportsGroup told ESPN. Walker was with Maccabi Tel Aviv in the EuroLeague after last playing in the NBA in 2024-25 and now enters his 8th season in the league. https://t.co/tvxQc2RRjz
- Aug 9, 20267.7x their median
Don Nelson, the second winningest coach in NBA history, a five-time NBA champion as a player and a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, has died, it was announced Sunday. He was 86. More: https://t.co/sVHhhoGl3S https://t.co/WBFX6Qr1Et
- Aug 21, 20267.0x their median
Dallas Mavericks assistant coach Phil Handy is finalizing a deal to become an assistant coach with Philadelphia Sixers head coach Nick Nurse, a source said. Handy previously worked with Nurse in Toronto and with LeBron James with the Cavs and Lakers. Great addition for Nurse. https://t.co/uzD9hYu4Fn
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 2.3K interactions against 9.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.025%. Measured over 70 original posts, its engagement rate beats 62% of 3,739 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 283K times each, and 0.819% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.10% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 70 posts sampled, 86% carry an image or video and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 46K interactions, about 20x its own typical post.
- What is NBA on ESPN's engagement rate on X?
- NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) has an engagement rate of 0.025%, based on the median interactions across 70 original posts from the last 30 days against 9,147,203 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.025%, NBA on ESPN sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,261 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 @ESPNNBA have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 62% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @ESPNNBA post?
- Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.37 posts per day across the measured window.