NFL engagement report
@NFL - 37M followers on X
Measured over 358 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.2K interactions against 37M followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 358 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% of 3,716 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 319K times each, and 0.387% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.864% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 15.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 358 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 61K interactions, about 50x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #flagfootball, #ifaf, #roadtola28.
Measured over 358 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #flagfootball, #ifaf, #roadtola28.
Compared with accounts its own size
NFL's engagement rate beats 30% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,716 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 33% 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 0.003%, NFL sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,134 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
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 | 2.11% |
| 99th percentile | 161.6% |
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 00:00 UTC, and Saturday 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 | -4% | 49K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 42K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 41K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 47K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 51K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 68K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 71K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 77K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 85K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 99K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 89K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 73K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 65K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 228K |
| Monday | 0% | 281K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 270K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 249K |
| Thursday | -2% | 242K |
| Friday | -3% | 250K |
| Saturday | +3% | 225K |
Best tweets
- Aug 30, 202650x their median
BREAKING: Aaron Donald coming out of retirement to play for Rams on a 1-year, $20M deal with playoff incentives up to $30M. (via @adamschefter, @rapsheet) https://t.co/K0B4YZRo7v
- Aug 29, 202623x their median
That double move 😮💨 https://t.co/bMsshzOPpa
- Aug 30, 202621x their median
Odell Beckham makes Giants' 53-man roster. (via @AdamSchefter) https://t.co/E8JLVmIVKg
- Aug 16, 202619x their median
See you in 4 weeks.
- Aug 30, 202618x their median
Could this be the greatest defensive duo of all time? https://t.co/KXteFqIsCC
- Aug 24, 202616x their median
TRADE: Patriots trading WR Kayshon Boutte to the Texans for S Jaylen Reed and a 2028 seventh-round pick. (via @rapsheet) https://t.co/BXHx1Q1YbZ
- Aug 30, 202616x their median
It's happening. @Flash_Garrett x @AaronDonald97 in LA. https://t.co/aLijKW3EAM
- Aug 25, 202614x their median
Season 1 ➡️ The Finale (via @packers) https://t.co/BEFWEXFu40
- Aug 15, 202614x their median
.@obj is in a @Giants uniform again 😌 https://t.co/EQeRDiewaJ
- Aug 17, 202613x their median
Vikings place LB Jamal Adams (knee) on season-ending IR. https://t.co/RAWjQebJOp
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 1.2K interactions against 37M followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 358 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% of 3,716 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 319K times each, and 0.387% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.864% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 15.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 358 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 61K interactions, about 50x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #flagfootball, #ifaf, #roadtola28.
- What is NFL's engagement rate on X?
- NFL (@NFL) has an engagement rate of 0.003%, based on the median interactions across 358 original posts from the last 30 days against 36,892,201 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.003%, NFL sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,134 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 @NFL have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 30% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,716 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 @NFL post?
- Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 15.17 posts per day across the measured window.