Today In History engagement report
@URDailyHistory - 517K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 82 interactions against 517K followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 37% of 3,792 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 4.3K times each, and 1.93% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.829% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 14x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #history, #ad, #otd.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026. Recurring tags: #history, #ad, #otd.
Compared with accounts its own size
Today In History's engagement rate beats 37% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,792 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 0.016%, Today In History sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,759 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 | 160.4% |
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 12:00 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 98K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
Best tweets
- Aug 26, 202614x 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
- Aug 24, 202611x 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
- Aug 25, 20262.9x 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
- Aug 25, 20262.5x their median
25 Aug 1940: The first bombing of #Berlin during World War II takes place as British planes attack the city. #Berliners were shocked as their leaders had told them that it was impossible for enemy bombers to penetrate their air defenses. #Britain used 95 aircraft to bomb #Tempelhof Airport and Siemensstadt. #London had been bombed for the first time the day before and #British Prime Minister Winston Churchill retailated by bombing the German capital. Berlin was infrequently bombed through the fall of 1941 and then not again until January of 1943. #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/VgyRolvnSr
- Aug 26, 20262.4x their median
26 Aug 1498: #Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the #Pietà for French Cardinal Jean de Bilhères. The Pieta is housed in St. Peter's Basilica, #Vatican City. #Rome #Catholic #OTD #History #art #ad https://t.co/S5RBwzDuWn https://t.co/nFQawJdeAk
- Aug 24, 20261.9x their median
24 Aug 1814: During the War of 1812, British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn the White House, the #Capitol and other buildings. The Treaty of Ghent, which was signed on December 24, ended the war in a stalemate. #History #OTD #Warof1812 #WhiteHouse #ad https://t.co/NMkfZPjUkt
- Aug 25, 20261.7x their median
25 Aug 1941: During World War II, #Britain and #Russia invade #Iran after giving an ultimatum to expel all Germans from the country and join the allies. The country is split into two zones. The British controlled the oil-rich south and the Soviets in the north. Reza Shah had refused and after the invasion was forced to abdicate. #ad https://t.co/i5jOxIi3Db
- Aug 24, 20261.7x their median
24 Aug 1940: During World War II, #Germany bombs #London for the first time. The bombers were aiming for military targets near the city but drifted off course. Prime Minister Winston Churchill had #Berlin bombed the next night, believing the bombing of London civilians was deliberate. #OTD #History #HistoryMatters #ad https://t.co/zz9ngYIJEB
- Aug 25, 20261.6x their median
25 Aug 1944: #British Prime Minister Winston #Churchill sends U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt a telegram proposing a message to #Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin on a proposal to allow U.S. planes from the U.K. to airdrop supplies to the Poles during the #Warsaw Uprising and land in Soviet territory. #Roosevelt wasn’t willing to risk the alliance, despite Stalin’s refusal to help the Poles. Stalin had already denied the allies’ plans to land in Soviet bases after dropping supplies to Poland. #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/Qw8kiT39cM
- Aug 26, 20261.6x their median
26 Aug 1939: Led by #Abwehr Lieutenant Hans-Albrecht Herzner, a #German commando unit attacks the vital Jabłonków rail tunnel in the #Carpathian Mountains. Intended to open the way for the invasion of Poland, the premature raid went ahead because Herzner never received German dictator Adolf Hitler's last-minute order delaying the war. #Polish forces successfully repelled the localized assault, holding the strategic pass until Nazi Germany launched its full-scale invasion days later on September 1. #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/hCTYWJ1erb
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 82 interactions against 517K followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 37% of 3,792 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 4.3K times each, and 1.93% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.829% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 14x 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 0.016%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 516,798 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.016%, Today In History sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,759 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 37% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,792 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 12:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.