National Geographic Animals engagement report
@NatGeoAnimals - 1.4M followers on X
Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 277 interactions against 1.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.021%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 45% 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 29K times each, and 0.967% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.12% 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 70% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.7K interactions, about 6.1x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #natgeolion, #americasnationalparks, #insidetheenchantedforests.
Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026. Recurring tags: #natgeolion, #americasnationalparks, #insidetheenchantedforests.
Compared with accounts its own size
National Geographic Animals's engagement rate beats 45% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 50% 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 0.021%, National Geographic Animals 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 13:00 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.
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 20, 20266.1x their median
Witness the rise of a king. 🦁 #NatGeoLION is now streaming on @DisneyPlus and @hulu. https://t.co/Z2kD2kn13N
- Jul 31, 20264.5x their median
Shoutout to all Mama Bears everywhere 🫶 One day, her cubs will wander the world without her. But until then, she will lead, nurture, and protect. #NatGeoQueens is now streaming on @DisneyPlus. https://t.co/1YivzG3PQv
- Jul 5, 20262.8x their median
These hammerheads are ready for their close-up. #HammerheadSharksUpClose with Bertie Gregory is now streaming on @DisneyPlus and @hulu, part of #Sharkfest on National Geographic. https://t.co/PF2MQET1w9
- Aug 20, 20262.4x their median
If you thought your family was a lot, wait until you meet Kio's #NatGeoLION is now streaming on @DisneyPlus and @hulu. https://t.co/Agnu67skc3
- Jul 20, 20262.4x their median
A newborn humpback whale calf takes its first breath, with a little help from mom. #IncredibleAnimalJourneys is now streaming on @DisneyPlus https://t.co/jTbhdVTI10
- Jun 8, 20262.2x their median
Bertie Gregory is back, and this time, he's searching for one of the world's most distinctive shark—the hammerhead. #HammerheadSharksUpClose with Bertie Gregory premieres July 5 as part of #Sharkfest on @NatGeoTV. Streaming on @DisneyPlus and @hulu. https://t.co/JlLcuul0ih
- Aug 8, 20262.1x their median
Tune out the world and tune into the flutters 🐦✨ With up to 70 wingbeats per second and speeds greater than 30 mph, hummingbirds are tiny forces of nature. #AmericasNationalParks is now streaming on @DisneyPlus and @hulu. https://t.co/aJHHn6gZBY
- Aug 19, 20262.1x their median
He's cute now, but Kio has a lot of potential! He's just got some growing to do first 💛 #NatGeoLION premieres Wednesday, August 19, at 9/8c on @NatGeoTV. Streaming on @DisneyPlus and @hulu. https://t.co/20Bl088zbx
- Aug 13, 20262.0x their median
Be adorable: 24/7 ⏱️ #NatGeoLION premieres Wednesday, August 19 at 9/8c on National Geographic. Streaming on @DisneyPlus and @hulu. https://t.co/TQnvablMgk
- Aug 16, 20261.8x their median
A pond flooded by a beaver dam provides a prime fishy feast for an otter family—fortunately, there's no conflict of interest between these aquatic mammals. #AmericasNationalParks is now streaming on @DisneyPlus https://t.co/ILa7wwRyCi
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 277 interactions against 1.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.021%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 45% 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 29K times each, and 0.967% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.12% 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 70% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.7K interactions, about 6.1x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #natgeolion, #americasnationalparks, #insidetheenchantedforests.
- What is National Geographic Animals's engagement rate on X?
- National Geographic Animals (@NatGeoAnimals) has an engagement rate of 0.021%, based on the median interactions across 23 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,353,782 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.021%, National Geographic Animals 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 @NatGeoAnimals have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 45% 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 @NatGeoAnimals post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.03 posts per day across the measured window.