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Saturday Night Live engagement report

@nbcsnl - 3.5M followers on X

Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.032%
of 3.5M followers
Per impression
0.937%
119K views on a typical post
Reach
3.42%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1.1K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.066%
79 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.53/day
active 37% of days
Peak time
20:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 1.1K interactions against 3.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.032%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 66% of 3,809 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 119K times each, and 0.937% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.42% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.53 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 46K interactions, about 41x its own typical post.

Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Saturday Night Live's engagement rate beats 66% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 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 54% 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 0.032%, Saturday Night Live sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,960 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.435%
p902.10%
p99159.8%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,960 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,518 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 percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.435%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile159.8%

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 20:00 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.

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: 20:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 20:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
02:00 UTC-3%51K
03:00 UTC-4%54K
04:00 UTC-6%44K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%49K
07:00 UTC-5%53K
08:00 UTC-4%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
10:00 UTC-2%73K
11:00 UTC-3%79K
12:00 UTC-2%87K
13:00 UTC-2%96K
14:00 UTC-4%99K
15:00 UTC-2%102K
16:00 UTC-3%99K
17:00 UTC-2%92K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-2%80K
20:00 UTC-1%75K
21:00 UTC-1%67K
22:00 UTC-2%58K
23:00 UTC-1%52K
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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%233K
Monday0%292K
Tuesday-3%284K
Wednesday-1%253K
Thursday-2%246K
Friday-3%255K
Saturday+3%229K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Jul 8, 202641x their median

    CONGRATS, CONNOR! 🏆 #Emmys https://t.co/XpjYcxmd7C

    38K6.9K370872735K viewsView on X
  • May 17, 202622x their median

    Season 51 Finale Joke Swap with Colin and Che! https://t.co/RelgeShg8d

    23K1.1K208103904K viewsView on X
  • May 15, 20268.0x their median

    he's not going to say it again https://t.co/oO2F71rY5W

    15K49515429957K viewsView on X
  • May 17, 202614x their median

    there’s been a mix-up https://t.co/Z56BANi3Dn

    15K50118144446K viewsView on X
  • May 17, 202611x their median

    the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein pays Trump a visit https://t.co/CjxMmIdYpT

    11K1.5K309114779K viewsView on X
  • May 17, 202611x their median

    Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che! https://t.co/Wjynvy3vmT

    11K9829429237K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20269.7x their median

    Dolly Parton’s SNL Goodnights 🤍 Season 14, Episode 17 (1989) https://t.co/GQgVybcxX4

    9.7K1.0K3717136K viewsView on X
  • May 29, 20268.4x their median

    it’s what he would’ve wanted https://t.co/3OwzXS7iu8

    8.8K389116507.2M viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20266.9x their median

    👀❓ https://t.co/fwlQTo8Stm

    2.8K1763.8K9151.3M viewsView on X
  • May 22, 20266.9x their median

    ladies and gentlemen, season 51! https://t.co/SVZ6rTEsRx

    6.8K674101153665K 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 1.1K interactions against 3.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.032%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 66% of 3,809 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 119K times each, and 0.937% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.42% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.53 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 46K interactions, about 41x its own typical post.

What is Saturday Night Live's engagement rate on X?
Saturday Night Live (@nbcsnl) has an engagement rate of 0.032%, based on the median interactions across 16 original posts from the last 30 days against 3,480,559 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.032%, Saturday Night Live sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,960 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 @nbcsnl have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 66% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 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 @nbcsnl post?
Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.53 posts per day across the measured window.

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