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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

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.009%
of 54K followers
Per impression
0.821%
609 views on a typical post
Reach
1.13%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
5
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.7/day
active 40% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Wednesday

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%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.141%
p750.67%
p902.53%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 200,465 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,898 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 percentile0.141%
75th percentile0.67%
90th percentile2.53%
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 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.

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: 17:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 17:00 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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Wednesday
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 link73% 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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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

#aiascs2027

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.

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