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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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.
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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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 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.