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
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%.
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 | 155.6% |
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.
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
- 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
- Jul 28, 20265.1x their median
DO NOT TRADE FRANCISCO LINDOR
- 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
- Aug 10, 20262.5x their median
https://t.co/UliDcDC0HB
- 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
- 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
- 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!
- 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
- Aug 2, 2026
At least the Freddy Peralta era was a bit better than the Ryan Helsley era.
- 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
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.