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Military History Now engagement report

@MilHistNow - 210K followers on X

Measured over 77 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 6, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.154%
of 210K followers
Per impression
3.94%
8.2K views on a typical post
Reach
3.90%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
323
interactions (median)
Saved
0.146%
12 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.8/day
active 50% of days
Peak time
05:00 UTC
Sunday

A typical post picks up 323 interactions against 210K followers, an engagement rate of 0.154%. Measured over 77 original posts, its engagement rate beats 67% of 19,932 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 8.2K times each, and 3.94% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.91% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 77 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video and 10% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 11K interactions, about 35x its own typical post.

Measured over 77 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 6, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Military History Now's engagement rate beats 67% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 82% 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 0.154%, Military History Now sits above the 50th percentile of the 199,735 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.141% to 0.668%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.141%
p750.668%
p902.53%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 199,735 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,892 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 percentile0.141%
75th percentile0.668%
90th percentile2.53%
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 05:00 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: 05:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 05:00 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: Sunday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Sunday
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 video94% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link10% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 94% 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.
  • 10% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 254 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

  • Sep 13, 202635x their median

    BREAKING: Trump calls on Zelenskyy to stop striking Russian diesel refineries, warning the attacks are "hurting the world" by contributing to a diesel shortage. "He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia," Trump says, adding that Ukraine can go after "plenty of other targets." "We spoke to Mr. Zelenskyy about it... Don't hit diesel fuel because that's hurting the world."

    7.6K1.5K2.0K3681.3M viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 202617x their median

    SURPRISE! We were honoured to fly our Lancaster with the @CFSnowbirds at today's Canadian International Air Show. #CIAS2026 #TorontoAirShow #TorontoEvent https://t.co/9YXeCfzRTF

    4.5K70510648147K viewsView on X
  • Sep 7, 202610x their median

    I can't think of another film that depicts No Man's Land of WW1 quite like '1917.' None of the random debris, discarded wagon wheels or Fokker wreckage you see in classic Hollywood war movies. Just a barren, empty, lifeless void. Otherworldly. Genuinely chilling. https://t.co/QGDCPp0A3n

    3.0K1676411166K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 20266.7x their median

    Today in 1914, after weeks of retreating in the face of the advancing German army, French and British troops launch a counter-attack east of Paris. The Battle of the Marne, which lasts for seven days, saves France and ends Berlin's hopes for a quick victory on the Western Front. https://t.co/ILaBGBwF7C

    1.9K251141268K viewsView on X
  • Sep 10, 20266.0x their median

    On this day in 1939, Canada declares war on Nazi Germany. More than one million of the country's 11 million citizens will serve in uniform in the Second World War. They will fight on land, in the air and on the seas. 45,000 of them will not return. https://t.co/4WDYYl7Dkz

    1.6K291242137K viewsView on X
  • Sep 30, 20264.4x their median

    Today in 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returns from Munich where he and France's Édouard Daladier have agreed to Hitler's demands over the dismembering of Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain promises “peace for our time.” In less than a year, Europe will be at war. https://t.co/Ey0zihEzjV

    1.1K238513378K viewsView on X
  • Oct 4, 20264.2x their median

    Today in 1795, a 26-year-old artillery officer by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte famously orders his gunners to give counter-revolutionaries advancing through the streets of Paris a "whiff of grapeshot." This act of ruthlessness puts the future emperor on the path to power. https://t.co/ZD3n5lqUqg

    1.2K160161549K viewsView on X
  • Sep 6, 20264.0x their median

    Today in 1914, British and French forces continue their day-old counterattack along the Marne River, thereby saving Paris and thwarting Germany's hopes for a quick victory on the Western Front. During the battle, Parisian taxi cabs famously move French troops to the frontlines. https://t.co/1N52GfpNkd

    1.1K178101039K viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 20263.7x their median

    On this day in 1886, Geronimo (right) and his last remaining followers surrender to the U.S. Army in Arizona ending more than three decades of resistance by the legendary Apache leader. https://t.co/Fr8D1eQYof

    1.1K12717432K viewsView on X
  • Sep 29, 20263.3x their median

    U.S. Marines on Peleliu Island hurl Molotov cocktails at the enemy. Footage captured on Sept. 29, 1944. https://t.co/ToyEV3Lbx9

    975787444K 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 323 interactions against 210K followers, an engagement rate of 0.154%. Measured over 77 original posts, its engagement rate beats 67% of 19,932 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 8.2K times each, and 3.94% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.91% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 77 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video and 10% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 11K interactions, about 35x its own typical post.

What is Military History Now's engagement rate on X?
Military History Now (@MilHistNow) has an engagement rate of 0.154%, based on the median interactions across 77 original posts from the last 30 days against 210,129 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.154%, Military History Now sits above the 50th percentile of the 199,735 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 @MilHistNow have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 67% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 @MilHistNow post?
Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.8 posts per day across the measured window.

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