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Discovery engagement report

@Discovery - 8.6M followers on X

Measured over 86 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 8.6M followers
Per impression
0.241%
37K views on a typical post
Reach
0.43%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
89
interactions (median)
Saved
0.011%
4 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.97/day
active 103% of days
Peak time
12:00 UTC
Sunday

A typical post picks up 89 interactions against 8.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 86 original posts, its engagement rate beats 18% of 3,829 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 37K times each, and 0.241% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.429% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 86 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.7K interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #intheeyeofthestorm, #120hoursbehindbars, #contraband.

Measured over 86 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #intheeyeofthestorm, #120hoursbehindbars, #contraband.

Compared with accounts its own size

Discovery's engagement rate beats 18% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 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 22% 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 0.001%, Discovery sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,037 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.435%
p902.10%
p99158.8%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,037 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 105,893 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 percentile158.8%

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 12:00 UTC, and Sunday 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: 12:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 12:00 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: Sunday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Sunday
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

  • Aug 1, 202619x their median

    It's still #SharkWeek, FYI 🫵 https://t.co/y7SrzX2DPj

    1.5K1061525497K viewsView on X
  • Aug 5, 202611x their median

    Thanks for spending seven fin-tastic nights with us! See ya next year ✌️ #SharkWeek https://t.co/Ir6edK8Dew

    8189844627K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20267.2x their median

    Just another day in the kingdom 🦁 📸: Matthew Williams-Ellis #lion #slomo https://t.co/QG8MTXf7ox

    548806661K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20264.9x their median

    Golden hour in the savannah ✨ 📸: Marco Bottigelli #Sunset #Savannah https://t.co/BEYOCLTibV

    3477413428K viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 20264.9x their median

    Just cruising around! 🐢🌊 📸: Ng Aik Hong #seaturtle #turtletuesday #ocean https://t.co/G52s76t48u

    358686139K viewsView on X
  • Aug 1, 20264.5x their median

    📸 + 💭: IG @/jayclue "Despite their massive size, great hammerheads are one of the most docile apex predators I’ve had the opportunity to spend time with. Evolutionary speaking, hammerheads are one of the newest shark species and highly evolved predators. Their large cephalofoil (head) works as an almost radar detecting the faint electronic signatures of rays buried in the sand while also giving them near 360 degree vision. They’re incredibly interesting creatures that play a vital role in helping to regulate marine ecosystems." #SharkWeek continues TONIGHT at 8P on Discovery!

    3385410141K viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 20264.5x their median

    Effortlessly photogenic ✨🦊 📸: Koorosh Badi #redfox #wildlife https://t.co/FLXs1EOkBx

    334585243K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20264.0x their median

    📍Lake Clark National Park, Alaska 📸: Jared Lloyd #alaska #landscape #autumn https://t.co/ATJmL8DgTj

    319343142K viewsView on X
  • Aug 10, 20263.8x their median

    🎥 + 💭: @sinosworld "There’s something almost unreal about thresher sharks. 🦈 That impossibly long tail, the slow and graceful way they move through the blue. It looks like an animal from somewhere else. Seeing one takes patience. They spend most of their time deep, and the encounters happen early, before sunrise, at cleaning stations on seamounts where they rise up to get worked over by wrasse. You get in the water in the dark and you wait. And for all that presence, a thresher is shy. They spook easily, they keep their distance, and they pose no threat to a diver. What they do matter to is the reef itself. Predators like this keep the whole system in balance. A quiet reminder that the most extraordinary animals are usually the most misunderstood." #MarineMonday #ThresherShark

    279486170K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20263.7x their median

    Dangerously photogenic 🐍 📸: Mark Kostich #snake #venomousbushviper https://t.co/w1793pNXAB

    271479035K 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

#intheeyeofthestorm#120hoursbehindbars#contraband#didyouknow#expeditionx

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 89 interactions against 8.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 86 original posts, its engagement rate beats 18% of 3,829 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 37K times each, and 0.241% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.429% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 86 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.7K interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #intheeyeofthestorm, #120hoursbehindbars, #contraband.

What is Discovery's engagement rate on X?
Discovery (@Discovery) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 86 original posts from the last 30 days against 8,609,934 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, Discovery sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,037 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 @Discovery have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 18% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size 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 @Discovery post?
Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.97 posts per day across the measured window.

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