NWS Seattle engagement report
@NWSSeattle - 259K followers on X
Measured over 14 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 116 interactions against 259K followers, an engagement rate of 0.045%. Measured over 14 original posts, its engagement rate beats 47% of 15,519 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 15K times each, and 0.752% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.99% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.5 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 14 posts sampled, 86% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 9.7x its own typical post.
Measured over 14 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026. Recurring tag: #wawx.
Compared with accounts its own size
NWS Seattle's engagement rate beats 47% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 38% 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 0.045%, NWS Seattle sits above the 25th percentile of the 157,515 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.022% to 0.128%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.003% |
| 25th percentile | 0.022% |
| 50th percentile | 0.128% |
| 75th percentile | 0.604% |
| 90th percentile | 2.32% |
| 99th percentile | 83.3% |
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 15:00 UTC, and Saturday 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% | 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 86% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 86% 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.
- 0% 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 202 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
- Jul 27, 20269.7x their median
Petrichor...the earthy smell caused by rain falling on dry ground. Just in case you were wondering. #wawx
- Aug 2, 20266.7x their median
Wildfire smoke is expected to return this week. Smoke likely will be aloft into Monday with hazy skies. Smoke may then reach the ground later Monday-Tuesday. This video shows the total smoke forecast (measure of all smoke in atmosphere). Monitor your air quality agency for info! https://t.co/jmKOiriPsd
- Aug 10, 20265.7x their median
Helloooooo marine layer. Feels pretty nice out there doesn't it? Looking for a high temperature in Seattle today a couple degrees below normal. Today begins the slow daily descent of average high temperature toward winter. Photo courtesy @space_needle. #wawx https://t.co/nJQVpOZFbf
- Aug 28, 20262.6x their median
Lunar eclipse will be peaking at 9:12 pm. Skies have cleared enough to get a good look at it around most of Western Washington. #wawx
- Jul 22, 20262.5x their median
High temperatures observed today: Olympia: 96 Seattle-Tacoma Airport: 93 NWS Seattle: 91 Bellingham: 87 Hot temperatures will continue on Wednesday! Make sure to stay hydrated, spend time in air conditioning if possible, and never leave children or pets in a car! #WAwx https://t.co/rSlEzAHngP
- Aug 6, 20262.4x their median
Smoke from regional wildfires continue this afternoon. There will be slow, gradual improvement to smoke this evening into Friday as westerly winds help scour smoke from western WA. High temperatures will remain in the mid 80s, cooling to near normal through the weekend. #wawx https://t.co/6nirTz9dXB
- Jun 16, 20262.3x their median
Sea-Tac reached 90° this afternoon. Over the past 81 years, the average first occurrence is July 3rd. This marks the 15th consecutive year when Seattle has reached 90°. Since the year 2000, four years have not featured a 90° day in Seattle: 2000, 2001, 2005, and 2011. #wawx
- Aug 30, 20262.3x their median
Rainfall between 6 am and 8 am Saturday morning at Seattle-Tacoma airport...0.55 inches. Rainfall in the last 80 days before today at Seattle-Tacoma airport...0.43 inches. #wawx
- Aug 3, 20262.1x their median
Smoke from regional wildfires has moved into W WA today. Smoke aloft will mix down to the surface later today into Tuesday and is expected to bring reduced air quality to portions of western WA into at least Wednesday. #wawx https://t.co/45HQ7eNl4p
- Jun 15, 20262.4x their median
Sea-Tac airports 3 PM temperature is 89° which breaks previous record for this date of 88° set back in 1963. #wawx
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 116 interactions against 259K followers, an engagement rate of 0.045%. Measured over 14 original posts, its engagement rate beats 47% of 15,519 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 15K times each, and 0.752% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.99% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.5 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 14 posts sampled, 86% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 9.7x its own typical post.
- What is NWS Seattle's engagement rate on X?
- NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) has an engagement rate of 0.045%, based on the median interactions across 14 original posts from the last 30 days against 258,540 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.045%, NWS Seattle sits above the 25th percentile of the 157,515 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 @NWSSeattle have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 47% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 @NWSSeattle post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.5 posts per day across the measured window.