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Today In History engagement report

@URDailyHistory - 517K followers on X

Measured over 47 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 18, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.011%
of 517K followers
Per impression
2.16%
2.7K views on a typical post
Reach
0.53%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
59
interactions (median)
Saved
0.11%
3 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.57/day
active 20% of days
Peak time
00:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 59 interactions against 517K followers, an engagement rate of 0.011%. Measured over 47 original posts, its engagement rate beats 36% of 20,444 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 2.7K times each, and 2.16% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.529% 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, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 47 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #history, #ad, #otd.

Measured over 47 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 18, 2026. Recurring tags: #history, #ad, #otd.

Compared with accounts its own size

Today In History's engagement rate beats 36% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 69% 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 0.011%, Today In History sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,048 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,048 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 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 percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
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 00:00 UTC, and Friday 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: 00:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 00:00 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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Friday
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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link100% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 100% 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.
  • 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
  • Its average post runs 286 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.

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

  • Aug 26, 202619x their median

    25 Aug 1944: German General Dietrich von Choltitz, the last commander of Nazi-controlled Paris, refuses to carry out German dictator Adolf Hitler's order to destroy the city. He surrenders to the Free #French Forces. He disobeyed Hitler as he thought Hitler had become insane. #History #OTD #WW2 #ad https://t.co/iKVGVtfC9p

    97414623642K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 202616x their median

    24 Aug 1914: British #Captain Robert Campbell is captured during World War I. He wrote to German #Kaiser Wilhelm asking if he could see his dying mother back in England. He agreed if Campbell would return to the prisoner of war camp, which he did. #History #OTD #HistoryMatters #ad https://t.co/MRQtjgoFYT

    7951346727K viewsView on X
  • Oct 15, 202613x their median

    15 Oct 1946: Nazi #Reichsmarschall Hermann #Goering kills himself while in #prison in Nuremberg, #Germany by taking potassium #cyanide the night before he was to be executed for war crimes. He was 53. #WWII #WW2 #History #OTD #warcrimes #goodriddance #ad https://t.co/6ek0vw7Caa https://t.co/JUbBin0hBn

    67854117158K viewsView on X
  • Sep 2, 20266.2x their median

    2 Sept 1945: #Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru #Shigemitsu signs the terms of surrender aboard the #battleship the USS #Missouri in #Tokyo Bay, thus ending World War II. #WWII #WW2 #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/45t3h8Af9r https://t.co/jKkEEPvw0x

    29265257.0K viewsView on X
  • Sep 17, 20265.6x their median

    17 Sept 1862: The Union army, led by General George McClellan and his Army of the Potomac, defeats Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at the Battle of  Antietam. The battle is also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, especially in the South. It is the bloodiest battle in U.S. history resulting in 22,000 casualties. Though not a decisive battle, when news reached British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston it cooled his idea of mediating an end to the war. #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/B4aADpkepe

    26657628.6K viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 20265.2x their median

    Sept 1189: Richard I, aka Richard the Lionheart, begins his reign as King of England. He died on April 6, 1199 at the age of 41 after a boy killed him with a crossbow. #History #BritishHistory #OTD #ad https://t.co/OWjAyoQoE9 https://t.co/1IfKBVdWul

    26042526.2K viewsView on X
  • Oct 17, 20264.5x their median

    16 Oct 1793: Queen of France Marie #Antoinette is beheaded during the #French Revolution. She was 37 years old. (By the way there is no record of her having said, Let them eat cake.”) #FrenchRevolution #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/hhImT9i7v9 https://t.co/Miu277RhSn

    21150314.9K viewsView on X
  • Oct 17, 20264.4x their median

    16 Oct 1946: German General Alfred Jodl, age 56, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, age 53, and eight other Nazis are #hanged after being convicted of war crimes committed during World War II at the #Nuremberg trials. #WWII #WW2 #OTD #History #ad https://t.co/ikUu3DREcJ

    214394312K viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 20264.2x their median

    4 Sept 1944: #Japanese Ambassador to Germany Hiroshi Oshima, while at the Wolf's Lair, presses German dictator Adolf Hitler to reach a peace with the Soviets, so that #Germany can concentrate its troops on the Western front and thereby take pressure off of #Japan in the Pacific. Japan had urged Germany to seek peace in 1942 and 1943 as well. #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/Lomnw5WrBy

    199403410K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20264.0x their median

    25 Aug 2026: The talented and amazing singer-songwriter, #actress and businesswoman Dolly Parton dies in Nashville, #Tennessee at the age of 80. She won 11 #Grammy Awards and three #Emmy Awards. She was born in Pittman Center, Tennessee on January 19, 1946. #History #star #OTD #Dolly #DollyParton

    18443435.1K 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

#history#ad#otd#england#wwii

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 59 interactions against 517K followers, an engagement rate of 0.011%. Measured over 47 original posts, its engagement rate beats 36% of 20,444 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 2.7K times each, and 2.16% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.529% 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, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 47 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #history, #ad, #otd.

What is Today In History's engagement rate on X?
Today In History (@URDailyHistory) has an engagement rate of 0.011%, based on the median interactions across 47 original posts from the last 30 days against 516,572 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.011%, Today In History sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,048 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 @URDailyHistory have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 36% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @URDailyHistory post?
Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.57 posts per day across the measured window.

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