Pittsburgh Pirates engagement report
@Pirates - 799K followers on X
Measured over 76 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 627 interactions against 799K followers, an engagement rate of 0.079%. Measured over 76 original posts, its engagement rate beats 69% of 3,899 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 35K times each, and 1.77% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.44% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 76 posts sampled, 86% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.6K interactions, about 4.2x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #raiseit, #letsgobucs.
Measured over 76 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #raiseit, #letsgobucs.
Compared with accounts its own size
Pittsburgh Pirates's engagement rate beats 69% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 67% 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 0.079%, Pittsburgh Pirates sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,701 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.081%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 156.3% |
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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Aug 18, 20264.2x their median
Oneil Cruz with a milestone dinger!!! That home run ties the Pirates PNC Park single-season record of 81 total homers hit at home (2003). https://t.co/BozjstpKCg
- Aug 19, 20264.1x their median
8⃣2⃣‼️ We have a new Pirates single-season home run record at PNC Park! https://t.co/gXkHzQGeZv
- Aug 19, 20263.9x their median
RAWR XD 🐾 https://t.co/UbKavZ1chO
- Aug 25, 20263.7x their median
FINAL/12. You up? https://t.co/Qn6iriQVHg
- Aug 26, 20263.7x their median
Late night dub. 🌵 https://t.co/cJmzDSlExK
- Aug 26, 20263.3x their median
A laser show from Cruz in the 9th. ⚡️ https://t.co/DgU2cEBbNA
- Aug 29, 20263.1x their median
Same time tomorrow? ⏰ #LetsGoBucs https://t.co/RDEB4SmY8I
- Aug 19, 20263.0x their median
Dub in the chat. 😃 https://t.co/GbV933Bj3G
- Aug 30, 20262.7x their median
That's a series winner. 🏴☠️ https://t.co/wORp0rkJth
- Aug 19, 20262.4x their median
#RAISEIT🏴☠️ https://t.co/kaRQopsnkm
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 627 interactions against 799K followers, an engagement rate of 0.079%. Measured over 76 original posts, its engagement rate beats 69% of 3,899 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 35K times each, and 1.77% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.44% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 76 posts sampled, 86% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.6K interactions, about 4.2x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #raiseit, #letsgobucs.
- What is Pittsburgh Pirates's engagement rate on X?
- Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) has an engagement rate of 0.079%, based on the median interactions across 76 original posts from the last 30 days against 798,940 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.079%, Pittsburgh Pirates sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,701 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 @Pirates have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 69% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 @Pirates post?
- Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.07 posts per day across the measured window.