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NASA History Office engagement report

@NASAhistory - 1.2M followers on X

Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.165%
of 1.2M followers
Per impression
3.66%
52K views on a typical post
Reach
4.51%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1.9K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.15%
78 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.03/day
active 60% of days
Peak time
14:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 1.9K interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.165%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 80% of 3,882 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 52K times each, and 3.66% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.51% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 19% are part of a thread and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 9.6x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #dyk, #otd.

Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #dyk, #otd.

Compared with accounts its own size

NASA History Office's engagement rate beats 80% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 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 85% 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 0.165%, NASA History Office sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,459 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.081% to 0.438%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.438%
p902.10%
p99159.8%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,459 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,523 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 percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.438%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile159.8%

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 14:00 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: 14:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 14:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%52K
01:00 UTC-2%53K
02:00 UTC-3%51K
03:00 UTC-4%55K
04:00 UTC-6%44K
05:00 UTC-4%43K
06:00 UTC-4%49K
07:00 UTC-5%53K
08:00 UTC-4%62K
09:00 UTC-3%71K
10:00 UTC-2%74K
11:00 UTC-3%81K
12:00 UTC-2%89K
13:00 UTC-2%97K
14:00 UTC-3%100K
15:00 UTC-2%104K
16:00 UTC-4%101K
17:00 UTC-3%94K
18:00 UTC-1%87K
19:00 UTC-2%82K
20:00 UTC-1%77K
21:00 UTC-1%68K
22:00 UTC-1%59K
23:00 UTC-2%53K
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 5%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%236K
Monday0%298K
Tuesday-3%295K
Wednesday-1%255K
Thursday-1%249K
Friday-3%257K
Saturday+3%231K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Jul 20, 20269.6x their median

    One giant leap for mankind History was made on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first to set foot on the Moon. For more than 5 decades, the total number of moonwalkers has remained at 12. NASA will change that with Artemis IV. https://t.co/BMUcSnbZ4L

    14K3.9K5023963.3M viewsView on X
  • Aug 6, 20262.3x their median

    Happy 14th Marsiversary, Curiosity! Today marks 14 years (and close to 5000 sols!) since Curiosity's dramatic drop through Mars's thin atmosphere and its safe arrival on the planet's surface! Since its landing, Curiosity has explored more than 23 miles of terrain, and found evidence of past habitable environments!

    3.6K6961125171K viewsView on X
  • Aug 2, 20262.0x their median

    Testing Galileo's law of motion on the Moon! 55 years ago today, Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott performed his feather and hammer experiment on the Moon, demonstrating that without air resistance all objects fall at the same rate. https://t.co/jSXQY8Q7cn

    3.2K592893083K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 20261.8x their median

    …and many more! 🎂🎈🎉 We wish a very happy birthday to the incomparable Gene Kranz, a legendary flight director who served our human spaceflight program for 34 years! Kranz is best known for his leadership in Mission Control during Apollo 13, but his composure and determination still inspire us today.

    3.0K403583881K viewsView on X
  • Jul 30, 20261.7x their median

    Astronauts Dave Scott and Jim Irwin landed the Apollo 15 lunar module "Falcon" at the Hadley-Apennine site on the Moon 55 years ago today! The fourth crewed lunar mission had ambitious scientific goals and set numerous human spaceflight records. https://t.co/YpTH223Xv4

    2.7K517733363K viewsView on X
  • Jul 18, 2026

    Today we celebrate John Glenn, the first American to orbit our planet, on the 105th anniversary of his birth! The oldest member of the Mercury Seven—NASA's first class of astronauts—in 1998 Glenn returned to space for STS-95 at the ripe age of 77. https://t.co/olT4QgKVrr

    2.1K387461348K viewsView on X
  • Jul 18, 2026

    Today marks 60 years since the launch of Gemini X! Over 3 days, astronauts John Young and Michael Collins successfully rendezvoused and docked with a vehicle in orbit, performed 2 spacewalks (a first!), and completed other procedures needed to land humans on the Moon. Three years later Collins would be on the way to the Moon for the Apollo 11 mission. 🚀 📷 Multiple exposure of the Gemini X launch, July 18, 1966

    2.1K341461470K viewsView on X
  • Jul 8, 2026

    The 135th and final shuttle launch! 🚀 July 8 marks the 15th anniversary of the historic final launch of NASA's 30-year Space Shuttle Program. With its crew of 4 astronauts, Atlantis lifted off at 11:29 am to begin STS-135, its last journey to the International Space Station. https://t.co/zsUDxvsLmt

    2.0K420442849K viewsView on X
  • Jul 31, 2026

    "Never been on a ride like this before!" Dave Scott became the first to drive on the Moon OTD in 1971 after unfolding the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). The Apollo 15 LRV allowed Scott and Irwin to venture farther from their landing spot, and collect more lunar material from a diversity of deposits!

    2.0K367572052K viewsView on X
  • Jul 16, 2026

    Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin take some of their last steps on our planet before beginning their journey to the Moon. At 9:32 a.m. OTD in 1969, Apollo 11 lifted off for the world's first mission to land astronauts on the lunar surface. https://t.co/98vOHCenZQ

    1.9K410581787K 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

#dyk#otd

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 1.9K interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.165%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 80% of 3,882 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 52K times each, and 3.66% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.51% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 19% are part of a thread and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 9.6x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #dyk, #otd.

What is NASA History Office's engagement rate on X?
NASA History Office (@NASAhistory) has an engagement rate of 0.165%, based on the median interactions across 16 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,162,617 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.165%, NASA History Office sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,459 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 @NASAhistory have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 80% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 accounts), which puts it in the top 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 @NASAhistory post?
Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.03 posts per day across the measured window.

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