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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 158.8% |
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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 233K |
| Monday | 0% | 292K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 284K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 246K |
| Friday | -3% | 255K |
| Saturday | +3% | 229K |
Best tweets
- Aug 1, 202619x their median
It's still #SharkWeek, FYI 🫵 https://t.co/y7SrzX2DPj
- Aug 5, 202611x their median
Thanks for spending seven fin-tastic nights with us! See ya next year ✌️ #SharkWeek https://t.co/Ir6edK8Dew
- Aug 18, 20267.2x their median
Just another day in the kingdom 🦁 📸: Matthew Williams-Ellis #lion #slomo https://t.co/QG8MTXf7ox
- Aug 20, 20264.9x their median
Golden hour in the savannah ✨ 📸: Marco Bottigelli #Sunset #Savannah https://t.co/BEYOCLTibV
- Aug 4, 20264.9x their median
Just cruising around! 🐢🌊 📸: Ng Aik Hong #seaturtle #turtletuesday #ocean https://t.co/G52s76t48u
- 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!
- Aug 13, 20264.5x their median
Effortlessly photogenic ✨🦊 📸: Koorosh Badi #redfox #wildlife https://t.co/FLXs1EOkBx
- Aug 29, 20264.0x their median
📍Lake Clark National Park, Alaska 📸: Jared Lloyd #alaska #landscape #autumn https://t.co/ATJmL8DgTj
- 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
- Aug 21, 20263.7x their median
Dangerously photogenic 🐍 📸: Mark Kostich #snake #venomousbushviper https://t.co/w1793pNXAB
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
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.