USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service engagement report
@USDAFoodSafety - 1.3M followers on X
Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 26 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 18% of 3,829 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 7.5K times each, and 0.347% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.592% 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, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 70% carry an image or video and 87% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 516x its own typical post.
Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service's engagement rate beats 18% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 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 25% 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 0.002%, USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,071 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 158.3% |
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 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 71K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 80K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 88K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 103K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 100K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 86K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 81K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 234K |
| Monday | 0% | 294K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 288K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 247K |
| Friday | -3% | 256K |
| Saturday | +3% | 230K |
Best tweets
- Jul 31, 2026516x their median
SIX more American meat and poultry companies just joined @USDA's voluntary Product of USA label. When you buy Product of USA, you're supporting food that is: 🇺🇸 Born here 🇺🇸 Raised here 🇺🇸 Harvested here 🇺🇸 Processed here Today's additions: 🥩 Creekstone Farms (KS) 🥩 Caviness Beef Packers 🥩 CS Beef Packers (TX) 🥩 Greener Pastures (TX) 🥩 Lone Star Beef Processors (TX) 🍗 Claxton Poultry (GA) America First means buying American.
- Jul 10, 2026343x their median
The Product of USA label means EXACTLY what it says. Born. Raised. Harvested. Processed. All in the United States. The standard is clear. If your products meet this standard, join the Product of USA movement and learn how to use the label at ➡️ https://t.co/6NB0l1cGhW https://t.co/idi3HkHhI4
- Jul 10, 2026314x their median
Proud to announce that 10 more meat and poultry companies have adopted @USDA's Product of USA label! 🇺🇸🥩🐓🐖 When American families see this label, they can trust they're buying products that are born, raised, harvested, and processed right HERE in the United States. We're putting American producers FIRST and making it easier than ever to Buy American! https://t.co/pnGUdBRCmw
- Jul 27, 202668x their median
BIG news for Georgia agriculture! Today, we announced Georgia will become the 11th state to enter into a Cooperative Interstate Shipment agreement with @USDA. For nearly six decades, Georgia’s state-inspected meat processors could only sell their products within the state. Now, eligible small processors will be able to join the FSIS CIS program to ship across all 50 states under the USDA mark of inspection - while maintaining the same rigorous food safety standards Americans expect. This means new markets, new customers, and more freedom for Georgia’s small businesses to grow. Thank you to @RepBrianJack, @AgCommHarperGA, and all the farmers, ranchers, processors, and local leaders who helped make this possible. When Georgia agriculture wins, America wins. @USDAFoodSafety
- Jul 18, 202623x their median
Taylor Farms has initiated a recall of all iceberg lettuce from central Mexico, which include Marketside-brand products sold at Walmart due to potential Cyclospora contamination. Updates will be provided as additional information is available. https://t.co/vfkvNIZ6vY https://t.co/c1x7MAmr5L
- Jul 10, 202621x their median
Big news for food safety! @SecRollins, @SecKennedy and @epaleezeldin just announced an updated MOU to reaffirm their shared commitment to protecting consumers from heavy metals and contaminants in food. This move strengthens decades of coordination under the National Residue Program to monitor and regulate meat, poultry, and egg products while adopting new methods to better detect and address potential risks. 🔗 https://t.co/SWQIsMbG38
- Jul 14, 20269.7x their median
Let’s accelerate healthier school meals nationwide! USDA is calling on states, in collaboration with their school districts, to pledge to serve even more real, nourishing foods that help kids thrive, from whole‑food breakfasts to smarter snacks, and healthy cooking methods. Join the movement and help build lifelong healthy eating habits! 💪🍎 🔗https://t.co/ko4jcDM1c8
- Jul 18, 20269.5x their median
FDA update on the investigation of a five-state outbreak of Cyclospora illnesses https://t.co/2sI1tNnb2i
- Jul 27, 20268.3x their median
🇺🇸 USDA, alongside our state and local partners, continues to make strong progress in responding to the New World screwworm. Since July 1: 📉 Just 11 new confirmed cases have been reported, down from 31 in June. 🐄 Only 42 total confirmed cases have been identified since the outbreak began—and all but one are in Texas. ✅ Today, there are only 9 active cases, and every animal that has contracted New World screwworm has recovered. 👀 Since July 4, we’ve conducted nearly 47,000 Texas-based animal observations using direct field observations, trail cameras, and more than 1,000 drone flights. Aggressive surveillance, rapid response, and strong coordination among our federal, state, and local partners are helping contain the outbreak. We remain vigilant and will continue working to protect America’s livestock and animals.
- Jul 21, 20268.3x their median
USDA has officially planted roots on TikTok! 🌱 🔗 https://t.co/H7FD2tu0KQ https://t.co/7lO3cqCH4t
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.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 26 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 18% of 3,829 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 7.5K times each, and 0.347% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.592% 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, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 70% carry an image or video and 87% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 516x its own typical post.
- What is USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service's engagement rate on X?
- USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service (@USDAFoodSafety) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 23 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,264,845 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,071 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 @USDAFoodSafety have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 18% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size 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 @USDAFoodSafety post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.6 posts per day across the measured window.