Boston Celtics engagement report
@celtics - 4.0M followers on X
Measured over 75 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 977 interactions against 4.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.025%. Measured over 75 original posts, its engagement rate beats 61% of 3,774 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 118K times each, and 0.827% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.97% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 75 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video and 27% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 11K interactions, about 12x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #nbadunkweek, #fibawc, #nbadefenseweek.
Measured over 75 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #nbadunkweek, #fibawc, #nbadefenseweek.
Compared with accounts its own size
Boston Celtics's engagement rate beats 61% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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%, Boston Celtics sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,654 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 | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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 Friday 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 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% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 98K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 1, 202612x their median
SHEESH 🫣 https://t.co/TZDhVPDdK3
- Aug 9, 20269.2x their median
Don Nelson’s success as a Hall of Fame Coach is so vast, that it could overshadow his playing career, but it would be a mistake to do so. A favorite of Red Auerbach’s, “Nellie” was a tough and reliable all-around player whose tenacity and ability to “think the game” was on full display throughout his 11 seasons with the Boston Celtics, where he was a key member of five championship teams across two eras. His most celebrated moment as a player came in Game 7 of the 1969 NBA Finals against his former team the Los Angeles Lakers, when Nelson converted one of the most famous shots in playoff history—a foul-line jumper which dropped through the basket after hitting the back rim and bouncing several feet straight up. The shot, taken with just over a minute to go in the game and the Celtics clinging to a 103–102 lead, was an essential play in helping secure Boston's 11th NBA title in 13 seasons. Nellie’s number 19 was raised shortly after he retired following yet another championship season in 1976. The Celtics extend our deep condolences to Nelson’s family, loved ones, and everyone he touched through his rich and impactful life in basketball and beyond.
- Jul 27, 20267.2x their median
Payton's handles need to be studied 🤯 https://t.co/csVYmW0PZb
- Aug 9, 20265.1x their median
☘️ 6x NBA Champion ☘️ 1957 NBA MVP ☘️ 12x All-NBA ☘️ 13x NBA All-Star ☘️ 2x All-Star Game MVP ☘️ 8-time NBA assists leader Bob Cousy's resume is ELITE 🏆 https://t.co/mBldOnzVsr
- Aug 6, 20264.6x their median
"I've got a big-a** poster of it in my house." - JT on his iconic jam 💪 #NBADunkWeek https://t.co/mmwZvhF2Ev
- Aug 14, 20264.4x their median
WE LOVE YOU TOO @jaytatum0 🫶 https://t.co/v7rr0NyFxV
- Jul 26, 20264.1x their median
TD Garden variety ☘️ https://t.co/A8LaKRpbbw
- Aug 26, 20264.0x their median
Watch Zero Go 🫡 https://t.co/545acYh8da
- Aug 11, 20263.7x their median
They grow up so fast 🥹 Nine years ago today ⏪ https://t.co/UvLnTCgiU0
- Aug 9, 20263.7x their median
Happy birthday Cooz ☘️🎂🎉 https://t.co/XvhbScndhk
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 977 interactions against 4.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.025%. Measured over 75 original posts, its engagement rate beats 61% of 3,774 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 118K times each, and 0.827% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.97% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 75 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video and 27% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 11K interactions, about 12x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #nbadunkweek, #fibawc, #nbadefenseweek.
- What is Boston Celtics's engagement rate on X?
- Boston Celtics (@celtics) has an engagement rate of 0.025%, based on the median interactions across 75 original posts from the last 30 days against 3,973,101 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.025%, Boston Celtics sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,654 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 @celtics have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 61% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @celtics post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.93 posts per day across the measured window.