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American Museum of Natural History engagement report

@AMNH - 470K followers on X

Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 21, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.052%
of 470K followers
Per impression
3.46%
7.0K views on a typical post
Reach
1.49%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
243
interactions (median)
Saved
0.128%
9 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.43/day
active 40% of days
Peak time
20:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 243 interactions against 470K followers, an engagement rate of 0.052%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 62% of 15,519 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 7.0K times each, and 3.46% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.49% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.43 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 4.5x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #dyk, #otd.

Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 21, 2026. Recurring tags: #dyk, #otd.

Compared with accounts its own size

American Museum of Natural History's engagement rate beats 62% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 84% 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 0.052%, American Museum of Natural History sits above the 25th percentile of the 156,596 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.022% to 0.127%.

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p250.022%
p50 (median)0.127%
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p902.32%
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Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 156,596 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 26,062 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 percentile0.003%
25th percentile0.022%
50th percentile0.127%
75th percentile0.604%
90th percentile2.32%
99th percentile83.4%

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 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: 20:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%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%89K
01:00 UTC-2%90K
02:00 UTC-3%88K
03:00 UTC-4%94K
04:00 UTC-5%76K
05:00 UTC-4%75K
06:00 UTC-5%86K
07:00 UTC-5%93K
08:00 UTC-4%108K
09:00 UTC-4%124K
10:00 UTC-3%129K
11:00 UTC-3%141K
12:00 UTC-3%154K
13:00 UTC-3%167K
14:00 UTC-4%173K
15:00 UTC-2%176K
16:00 UTC-3%171K
17:00 UTC-3%159K
18:00 UTC-2%149K
19:00 UTC-2%141K
20:00 UTC-1%131K
21:00 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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 111%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Formats this account uses

Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link0% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 100% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
  • 0% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 286 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.

These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.

Best tweets

  • Sep 3, 20264.5x their median

    The little pygmy possum is the smallest possum in the world. This marsupial typically weighs only 0.4 oz (10 g)—about the weight of 10 almonds. This omnivore has a taste for the nectar & pollen of flowering plants, and it can consume up to 7% of its body weight in a single day! https://t.co/dt0lG9cMvU

    92114161719K viewsView on X
  • Jun 29, 20264.3x their median

    Today's Exhibit of the Day? A colossal amethyst geode! At ~13 ft (4 m) tall & 9,000 lbs (4,082 kg), it's as heavy as 3 compact cars. Formed 135 million years ago, it started as colorless quartz—becoming purple after millennia of natural radiation, heat, & trace contaminants. https://t.co/IqQ6gIUDRl

    880143161521K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 20263.5x their median

    Meet one of the world’s smallest reptiles: the Nosy Hara leaf chameleon! An adult grows to be just over 1 inch (2.5 cm) long, & a juvenile can fit on the head of a match. Scientists think that its miniature size may be an extreme form of island dwarfism. https://t.co/byHKWELNLP

    73810581017K viewsView on X
  • Jul 3, 20262.4x their median

    Did you know? This colorful bird might be one of the Dodo’s closest living relatives! Meet the Nicobar Pigeon, which inhabits forests & mangroves on islands like the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. A gizzard stone in its stomach helps it break down tough foods like seeds & nuts! https://t.co/hsrkK5YfvU

    49782568.1K viewsView on X
  • Jul 28, 20262.4x their median

    Have you ever seen the rosy maple moth? Its vibrant color provides camouflage among the fruits of red maple trees. With a wingspan of up to 2 in (5 cm), this silk moth is nocturnal & solitary. It can be found throughout North America. https://t.co/W38ZTXULQA

    4647337819K viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 20262.4x their median

    The Warren mastodon was discovered in 1845 by a crew digging for peat fuel. Every bone in its skeleton is real—it was the first complete American mastodon skeleton found in the USA and is still one of the most complete mastodon skeletons known. https://t.co/z7isIZxj1V

    482838111K viewsView on X
  • Sep 8, 20262.3x their median

    Who’s this fuzzy noodle? That would be the long-tailed weasel. North America’s largest weasel, this nocturnal critter feeds on small mammals, insects, and birds. It inhabits the burrows of other species, but it’s also a skilled climber that can often be found in the trees. https://t.co/vvT8UIaZaU

    48768649.3K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 20262.1x their median

    #OTD in 1914, Martha (the last-known living Passenger Pigeon) died at the Cincinnati Zoo. Her death—at 29 after a lifetime in captivity—marked the disappearance of her once-abundant species from the world & made her name synonymous with species extinction at human hands. https://t.co/zCPBVfHqz3

    3761294911K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20261.9x their median

    This archival image, snapped sometime before 1960, depicts duck-billed dinosaurs on display at the Museum. Also known as hadrosaurs, these massive herbivores were the dominant plant-eaters during the Late Cretaceous ~85 million years ago. https://t.co/ZyujPe6XLe

    4005113311K viewsView on X
  • Jul 20, 20261.7x their median

    On this day in 1969, Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon. The journey was an astounding achievement, & scientific results & specimens gathered by Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin on the surface fueled research long after the mission was over. https://t.co/xoMnM1IVUn

    34662946.8K 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.

Recurring topics

#dyk#otd

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 243 interactions against 470K followers, an engagement rate of 0.052%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 62% of 15,519 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 7.0K times each, and 3.46% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.49% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.43 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 4.5x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #dyk, #otd.

What is American Museum of Natural History's engagement rate on X?
American Museum of Natural History (@AMNH) has an engagement rate of 0.052%, based on the median interactions across 13 original posts from the last 30 days against 470,411 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.052%, American Museum of Natural History sits above the 25th percentile of the 156,596 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 @AMNH have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 62% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 @AMNH post?
Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.43 posts per day across the measured window.

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