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Zach Lowe engagement report

@ZachLowe_NBA - 990K followers on X

Measured over 8 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.016%
of 990K followers
Per impression
0.082%
191K views on a typical post
Reach
19.3%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
156
interactions (median)
Saved
0.005%
10 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.73/day
active 43% of days
Peak time
14:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 156 interactions against 990K followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 8 original posts, its engagement rate beats 41% 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 191K times each, and 0.082% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 19.3% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 8 posts sampled, 25% carry an image or video and 50% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 962 interactions, about 6.2x its own typical post.

Measured over 8 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Zach Lowe's engagement rate beats 41% 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 6% 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 0.016%, Zach Lowe sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,856 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.081%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.439%
p902.10%
p99155.6%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,856 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 97,248 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 percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.439%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile155.6%

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 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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: 14:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 14:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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
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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%238K
Monday0%302K
Tuesday-3%302K
Wednesday-1%257K
Thursday-2%250K
Friday-3%259K
Saturday+3%233K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Jul 25, 20266.2x their median

    Now that you've had some time to listen to the instant reaction on the BS pod -- new ZL Show coming this afternoon on LeBron/all the ramifications. Recorded yesterday. Guests include: @ChrisRyan77's instant and visceral fan reaction. Look for it around 4 pm EST

    93116141193K viewsView on X
  • Jul 28, 20265.1x their median

    DO NOT TRADE FRANCISCO LINDOR

    73630205112K viewsView on X
  • Jul 30, 20262.1x their median

    What if OKC had kept Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and James Harden? Excited to announce my next book, WHEN WE WERE YOUNG AND FEARLESS, coming 11/3—a deep dive into the trio that reshaped the NBA. Pre-order link: https://t.co/qewyfmP3zQ https://t.co/JYgD1NMSrk

    253271435269K viewsView on X
  • Aug 10, 20262.5x their median

    https://t.co/UliDcDC0HB

    310422339K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 20261.8x their median

    And no, that's not a Mets shirt, @ZachLowe_NBA. It's a Mobb Deep shirt. Full YouTube show w/Tim Connelly and Matt Lloyd: https://t.co/3aM1MrAuD8

    2085134172K viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 2026

    New Zach Lowe Show: The 2026-27 NBA Player Pressure rankings, Part 1 -- plus last thoughts on LeBron and Kawhi and a deep-dive preview on (remember them?) the Indiana Pacers -- w/ @kirkgoldsberry: Spotify: https://t.co/nkFCmB8WjP

    1712432514K viewsView on X
  • Aug 1, 2026

    Heads up from Europe! There is a two-part ZL Show that we will spread over the next two Tuesdays (at least that is the plan now). Happy summer!

    17316071K viewsView on X
  • Jul 28, 2026

    New Zach Lowe Show: LeBron fallout; Draymond re-signs; are the Warriors blowing the end of Steph's career?; fake Steph trades; volatility among last year's play-in crew (Blazers/Suns/Warriors); Mets Corner first pitch/trade deadline edition: Spotify: https://t.co/owuNTRk48z

    9124124741K viewsView on X
  • Aug 2, 2026

    At least the Freddy Peralta era was a bit better than the Ryan Helsley era.

    11026197K viewsView on X
  • Jul 30, 2026

    HEARTLAND has gone into a second printing—and she got a glow-up to go with it. Thanks for reading, everyone! Without you, this wouldn’t be possible. The new books should be in stores soon. Go and get ‘em! https://t.co/8V6HStXc1C

    72348109K 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 156 interactions against 990K followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 8 original posts, its engagement rate beats 41% 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 191K times each, and 0.082% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 19.3% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 8 posts sampled, 25% carry an image or video and 50% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 962 interactions, about 6.2x its own typical post.

What is Zach Lowe's engagement rate on X?
Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) has an engagement rate of 0.016%, based on the median interactions across 8 original posts from the last 30 days against 990,019 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.016%, Zach Lowe sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,856 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 @ZachLowe_NBA have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 41% 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 @ZachLowe_NBA post?
Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.73 posts per day across the measured window.

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