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CIA engagement report

@CIA - 3.8M followers on X

Measured over 7 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.052%
of 3.8M followers
Per impression
2.16%
91K views on a typical post
Reach
2.42%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
2.0K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.161%
146 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.27/day
active 23% of days
Peak time
13:00 UTC
Tuesday

Early reading. We have captured 7 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.

A typical post picks up 2.0K interactions against 3.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.052%. Posts are seen about 91K times each, and 2.16% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.42% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.27 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 7 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 86% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 60K interactions, about 50x its own typical post. Only 7 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

Measured over 7 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.052%, CIA sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,956 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,956 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 13:00 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: 13:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 13:00 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 link86% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 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.
  • 86% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
  • Its average post runs 164 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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

  • Apr 7, 202650x their median

    https://t.co/qahznFezl7

    50K6.1K3.0K5752.6M viewsView on X
  • May 14, 202635x their median

    Havana, Cuba https://t.co/7S7TtJPyf5

    43K6.9K1.3K1.3K4.2M viewsView on X
  • Feb 24, 202627x their median

    سلام. سازمان اطلاعات مرکزی (CIA) صدای شما را می‌شنود و می‌خواهد به شما کمک کند. در ادامه، راهنمایی لازم در مورد چگونگی برقراری تماس مجازی امن با ما ارائه شده است. https://t.co/Dfq4zomz1n

    27K6.4K3.9K1.5K3.9M viewsView on X
  • May 1, 202619x their median

    Fifteen years ago today (1 May 2011), U.S. Navy SEALs raided a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan and killed Usama Bin Laden. The raid marked the end of a more than 15-year effort by partners across the Intelligence Community to find Bin Ladin. Learn more: https://t.co/vA7dJxHClB https://t.co/Gz1v4Z0ole

    16K3.7K1.9K7071.9M viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 20266.3x their median

    CIA remembers the nearly 3,000 lives lost on 9/11 when terrorists struck the United States. We led the first strikes in Afghanistan and continue to relentlessly hunt down those who pose a threat to Americans. CIA will neither forget, nor rest in pursuit of our Nation's enemies. https://t.co/euiLrUeHYr

    9.2K2.0K1.1K211170K viewsView on X
  • Sep 7, 20265.2x their median

    As the 25th anniversary of 9/11 draws near, we reflect on a Nation forever changed after nearly 3,000 lives were lost in the brutal attacks on our homeland. Follow along this week as we share stories of service, courage, and resilience in the face of tragic loss. https://t.co/AnJBz9mBJh

    7.2K1.7K1.2K242248K viewsView on X
  • Jun 24, 20262.4x their median

    Are you ready to serve your country as a CIA Case Officer? In this challenging and rewarding role, you will gather human intelligence from assets around the world and work with foreign partners to conduct operations in order to safeguard our Nation. Learn more at https://t.co/ocBOBt8JaL.

    4.4K1.1K1.7K454795K viewsView on X
  • Jul 4, 20262.9x their median

    This Independence Day, CIA honors the courage, resilience & ingenuity that have shaped 250 years of our Nation's history. As we look to the future, we will proudly continue to serve as our Nation's first line of defense - forever committed to protecting our country & its people. https://t.co/BThxY6DhIo

    4.8K1.2K75181144K viewsView on X
  • Apr 13, 20265.3x their median

    The first American intelligence network on record was a secret group in Boston known as the "Mechanics." Almost 250 years ago today, one of the Mechanics, Paul Revere, undertook the most famous tactical warning in U.S. history. Read more here: https://t.co/xpU0d54dFz https://t.co/QhYiR9PIdN

    4.3K1.4K440152215K viewsView on X
  • Sep 28, 20262.9x their median

    This Mi-17 helicopter at CIA Headquarters brought the first Americans into Afghanistan just 15 days after the 9/11 attacks. On the 25th anniversary of its historic mission, CIA restored the aircraft to its 2001 paint scheme. https://t.co/12DsXXaAs5

    4.8K68921863238K 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 2.0K interactions against 3.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.052%. Posts are seen about 91K times each, and 2.16% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.42% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.27 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 7 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 86% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 60K interactions, about 50x its own typical post. Only 7 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

What is CIA's engagement rate on X?
CIA (@CIA) has an engagement rate of 0.052%, based on the median interactions across 7 original posts from the last 30 days against 3,752,431 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.052%, CIA sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,956 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 @CIA have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @CIA post?
Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.27 posts per day across the measured window.

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