NATO engagement report
@NATO - 2.0M followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 820 interactions against 2.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.041%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% of 3,774 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 57K times each, and 1.44% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.85% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 70% carry an image or video, 5% are part of a thread and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.6K interactions, about 8.1x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #balticway, #natosummit, #nato.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #balticway, #natosummit, #nato.
Compared with accounts its own size
NATO's engagement rate beats 70% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 67% 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 0.041%, NATO sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 5, 20268.1x their median
Spoke with @ZelenskyyUa about the latest horrific Russian missile and drone strikes on Ukraine’s cities. I am discussing with Allies how we can continue to get Ukraine the air defences they urgently need
- Jul 29, 20266.0x their median
Wings of precision 🇹🇷 The Turkish Stars aerobatic team execute a precisely timed salute flight over Ankara during the #NATOsummit @tcsavunma | @TurkYildizlari https://t.co/opfkLGJ5UC
- Aug 19, 20262.3x their median
Training together means learning from each other 🤝 Forces from Denmark 🇩🇰 , Sweden 🇸🇪 , UK 🇬🇧 , US 🇺🇸 and Ukraine 🇺🇦 developed and learned new skills as well as exchanged knowledge during an exercise in Gotland https://t.co/STSWzqgUmK
- Jul 30, 20262.2x their median
Discussed with @donaldtusk the violation of Poland’s airspace by a Russian missile. Poland and #NATO activated their air and ground defences. We stand in solidarity with Poland and will continue to strengthen our readiness to defend against any threat, including missile attacks. This incident is yet another reckless act by Russia and a dangerous consequence of its war against Ukraine. I condemn last night’s deadly strikes across Ukraine. NATO continues to provide essential support so Ukraine can defend itself. Our commitment is unwavering
- Aug 24, 20262.0x their median
NATO stands with Ukraine, and our support remains unwavering 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine #UkraineIndependenceDay https://t.co/GI3JMYiJTg
- Aug 30, 20262.0x their median
NATO sharpens its edge in the High North 🛡️ Canadian frigate HMCS Ville de Québec is serving as the flagship of NATO naval forces as they hone their skills at sea ahead of an exercise. Operating together strengthens coordination, readiness and NATO's ability to deter and defend across the North Atlantic 🌊
- Aug 10, 20261.9x their median
Italy keeps watch over NATO airspace 👀 🇮🇹 Italian Eurofighters completed their Air Policing mission in Romania, helping NATO monitor its airspace, stay ready to respond to potential violations, and strengthen air defence across south-eastern Europe 🔗 https://t.co/xTkD70LARL https://t.co/xCTp7sDSff
- Aug 15, 20261.8x their median
“Eyes in the sky” in Latvia 🇱🇻 👀✈️ For the first time, a @NATOAWACS aircraft has landed in Latvia to train and demonstrate rapid combat deployment, strengthening NATO’s readiness to monitor the eastern part of the Alliance and the Baltic Sea region 🛡️ https://t.co/SamyETrxN6
- Aug 23, 20261.8x their median
In Lithuania 🇱🇹 NATO forces with more than 5,000 soldiers stand ready to defend the Alliance’s northeastern territory 🛡️ #BalticWay https://t.co/RHdIvWOFCF
- Jul 26, 20261.6x their median
🇷🇴Our pilots have shot down a third drone that entered Romanian airspace! This morning at 10:13 a.m., a Romanian pilot flying a Romanian Air Force F-16 fighter jet shot down a third drone that had entered the Romanian airspace. #WeAreNATO https://t.co/nqRJBLojKE
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 820 interactions against 2.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.041%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% of 3,774 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 57K times each, and 1.44% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.85% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 70% carry an image or video, 5% are part of a thread and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.6K interactions, about 8.1x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #balticway, #natosummit, #nato.
- What is NATO's engagement rate on X?
- NATO (@NATO) has an engagement rate of 0.041%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,002,261 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.041%, NATO sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 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 @NATO have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 70% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @NATO post?
- Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.6 posts per day across the measured window.