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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 86% 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
- May 14, 202635x their median
Havana, Cuba https://t.co/7S7TtJPyf5
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
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.