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The FAA ✈️ engagement report

@FAANews - 540K followers on X

Measured over 47 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 15, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.008%
of 540K followers
Per impression
0.383%
12K views on a typical post
Reach
2.18%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
45
interactions (median)
Saved
0.017%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.53/day
active 80% of days
Peak time
12:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 45 interactions against 540K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 47 original posts, its engagement rate beats 31% of 20,444 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 12K times each, and 0.383% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.18% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.5 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 Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 47 posts sampled, 91% carry an image or video and 70% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.0K interactions, about 133x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #faaweathersquad, #columbusday, #isaias.

Measured over 47 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 15, 2026. Recurring tags: #faaweathersquad, #columbusday, #isaias.

Compared with accounts its own size

The FAA ✈️'s engagement rate beats 31% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 25% 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 0.008%, The FAA ✈️ sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,880 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,880 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,891 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 12:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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 111%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%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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Wednesday
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 video91% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link70% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 91% 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.
  • 70% 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 252 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

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

  • Aug 24, 2026133x their median

    🚨THIS IS HOW YOU FAST-TRACK CONTROLLERS INTO TOWERS ✈️ We started a program for college students to complete FAA Academy training right ON CAMPUS— and jump straight into on-site facility training after graduation‼️ I am here at SUNY Schenectady to check out their simulators and meet the next gen of controllers It’s the community colleges like this one that are helping power our mission 🇺🇸

    5.1K7381031368K viewsView on X
  • Oct 1, 2026130x their median

    🚨JUST IN: WE HIRED THE MOST AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS EVER @FAANews just surpassed its 2026 GOAL ✅ Thanks to President Trump and our supercharged hiring effort, thousands of YOUNG GAMERS are pursuing this exciting career ✈️ https://t.co/CL9XAQutqZ

    4.9K7771552265K viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 202686x their median

    Flames shoot from an American Airlines jet engine moments after it strikes birds during takeoff from Myrtle Beach, forcing the pilot to declare a mayday. The Boeing 737 quickly turns back as crews prepare for an emergency response on the ground. The plane lands safely with all 181 passengers safe after the midair scare.

    3.1K48319230891K viewsView on X
  • Sep 10, 202638x their median

    🚨 FUTURE OF FLIGHT IS HERE 🚨 Today in Texas, we celebrated the state’s first demonstration of next-gen aircraft under our Advanced Air Mobility Integration Pilot Program (eIPP), making Texas the sixth location to launch under this landmark @USDOT initiative! Through eIPP, we’ve built one of the nation’s largest real-world environments to test eVTOLs, air taxis, and autonomous planes The future of flight is taking off right here in AMERICA 🇺🇸

    1.4K2525027128K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 202622x their median

    A Cessna 150 airplane and a Bell 407 helicopter collided in midair near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, around 7:50 p.m. local time on Wednesday, Aug. 19. Two people were on board the helicopter. The number of people on board the Cessna is unknown. The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will investigate. The NTSB will lead the investigation and provide all updates.

    8031223314147K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 202617x their median

    Twenty-five years ago, the FAA took unprecedented action to land every commercial and private aircraft in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001.

On the 25th anniversary, we remember the critical actions FAA employees took to protect the safety of the nation’s skies. https://t.co/6SQHdrBRk0

    64511012317K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 202616x their median

    BIG NEWS ON DRONE DELIVERIES @FAANews is expanding its ‘BEYOND’ initiative, taking real-world testing to broader, everyday airspace across the country What’s changing: 📦 HEAVIER PACKAGES ☁️ HIGHER ALTITUDES 📍 LONGER DISTANCES DRONES are reaching new HEIGHTS 🇺🇸 https://t.co/43SpYzIbR6

    542117521455K viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 20268.1x their median

    (1/4) #Lala will strengthen and become a hurricane as it approaches the Big Island on Saturday, and is expected to track south of the smaller islands on Sunday. Conditions will rapidly deteriorate on the Big Island by Saturday, so preparations must be rushed to completion today. https://t.co/DBaxTuTNx0

    275796345K viewsView on X
  • Sep 30, 20266.8x their median

    AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL MODERNIZATION MILESTONE NEW Surface Movement Radars are officially up and running at these airports across the country: 📍George Bush Intercontinental Airport 📍San Diego International Airport 📍Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport 📍Newark Liberty International Airport 📍Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport 📍Portland International Airport 📍Denver International Airport SMR gives air traffic controllers real-time visibility of aircraft and vehicles on the ground moving across runways and taxiways We are modernizing our skies at TRUMP SPEED @FAANews

    245488525K viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 20264.4x their median

    ✈️ Newark Airport is getting new radar technology to replace an aging system that’s been in service for nearly 30 years. The new surface movement radar at @EWRairport gives air traffic controllers better visibility of aircraft and vehicles on the ground, even at night, during bad weather and other conditions to keep flights safe. We’re building a brand-new air traffic control system for the future with modern technology, software and the infrastructure to keep up with the growth of air travel. Old systems out. New tech in. 🛰️ https://t.co/Gf2faLEdXm

    1583010017K 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

#faaweathersquad#columbusday#isaias#hurricaneisaias#nodronezone

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 45 interactions against 540K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 47 original posts, its engagement rate beats 31% of 20,444 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 12K times each, and 0.383% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.18% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.5 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 Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 47 posts sampled, 91% carry an image or video and 70% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.0K interactions, about 133x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #faaweathersquad, #columbusday, #isaias.

What is The FAA ✈️'s engagement rate on X?
The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) has an engagement rate of 0.008%, based on the median interactions across 47 original posts from the last 30 days against 540,238 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.008%, The FAA ✈️ sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,880 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 @FAANews have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 31% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @FAANews post?
Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.53 posts per day across the measured window.

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