AIA engagement report
@archaeology_aia - 54K followers on X
Measured over 11 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 13, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 5 interactions against 54K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 11 original posts, its engagement rate beats 14% of 19,933 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 609 times each, and 0.821% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.13% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.7 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 11 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 73% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 10 interactions, about 2.0x its own typical post.
Measured over 11 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 13, 2026. Recurring tag: #aiascs2027.
Compared with accounts its own size
AIA's engagement rate beats 14% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,933 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 5 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 32% 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 0.009%, AIA sits above the 10th percentile of the 200,465 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 | 0.141% |
| 75th percentile | 0.67% |
| 90th percentile | 2.53% |
| 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 17:00 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% | 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 | 73% 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.
- 73% 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 285 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
- Sep 16, 20262.0x their median
AIA Archaeology Hour returns next week! Join National Geographic Explorer Eric Cline for “Homer, Hollywood, and Historical Context.” Explore the Late Bronze Age, Sea Peoples, the Trojan Horse, and more. 📅 Sept. 23, 2026 | 8pm ET Register: https://t.co/X4Aljx0Mre https://t.co/axLNFM3JNO
- Sep 15, 2026
🌍🏺 We're so close to the finish line! Waldbaum Scholar Omar Ibrahim, junior at Montclair State University, traveled to Jordan to take part in the Baluʿa Regional Archaeological Project (BRAP), recipient of a 2024 Site Preservation Grant. https://t.co/OwKsZozQCe
- Sep 3, 2026
The AIA joined a national coalition of more than 700 organizations representing 7 million Americans to call on Congress to reject efforts to weaken or dismantle Section 106. Read the full letter here: https://t.co/8oizZul3NL #Section106 #HistoricPreservation #Archaeology https://t.co/S5PgpE7tqL
- Aug 27, 2026
Greetings from the AIA booth at the European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting in Athens! 🦉 We’re excited to connect with archaeologists and colleagues from around the world. Stop by and say hello! #EAA #EAA2026 #AIA #Archaeology https://t.co/DKrq8zZz0d
- Sep 28, 2026
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- Sep 14, 2026
Join the AIA Student Affairs Interest Group on Sept. 22 at 5 PM ET for a lecture by Sarah Malik Bell, PhD: “Remembering Collapse: Understanding Ritual at Abandoned Late Bronze Age Sites on Crete through the Lens of Social Trauma Theory.” Register: https://t.co/Ux3WV28syT https://t.co/EDkrT7EXs4
- Sep 14, 2026
The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is pleased to announce a $500,000 gift from Dr. Thomas H. Carpenter and Dr. Lynne C. Lancaster to establish the Thomas H. Carpenter and Lynne C. Lancaster Fellowships. Read the Press Release: https://t.co/RP2P4RFgdz https://t.co/UDOsNHkMOd
- Sep 9, 2026
The AIA’s 131st National Lecture Program brings leading archaeologists and scholars to your screen. From The Odyssey to ancient alphabets and the Battle of Bunker Hill, explore a fascinating range of archaeological topics. Learn more: https://t.co/mKiw6dcCx5 https://t.co/h1SfzwmTax
- Sep 1, 2026
Announcing the #DigThis Photo Challenge Winners! Congratulations to John Turek and Nichole Reed! From Stonehenge to Pompeii, Ireland to Malta, check out their winning photos and archaeological adventures: https://t.co/4NRbHxX7LH Thanks to everyone who participated! https://t.co/S8dXZva6Oo
- Aug 25, 2026
Want to bring archaeology into classrooms around the world? Join AIA’s 26–27 Skype a Scientist Ambassadors Taylor Cwikla and Rachel Dewan for an informal conversation on virtual outreach, engagement, and more! 🗓 August 31 at 3:00 PM ET Learn more: https://t.co/WyUzuMEjsl https://t.co/1z9GeMxXZP
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 5 interactions against 54K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 11 original posts, its engagement rate beats 14% of 19,933 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 609 times each, and 0.821% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.13% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.7 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 11 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 73% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 10 interactions, about 2.0x its own typical post.
- What is AIA's engagement rate on X?
- AIA (@archaeology_aia) has an engagement rate of 0.009%, based on the median interactions across 11 original posts from the last 30 days against 53,925 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.009%, AIA sits above the 10th percentile of the 200,465 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 @archaeology_aia have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 14% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,933 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 @archaeology_aia post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.7 posts per day across the measured window.