Modern History engagement report
@modernhistory - 308K followers on X
Measured over 61 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 16, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 353 interactions against 308K followers, an engagement rate of 0.116%. Measured over 61 original posts, its engagement rate beats 62% 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 11K times each, and 3.19% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.60% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 61 posts sampled, 97% carry an image or video and 8% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 28K interactions, about 81x its own typical post.
Measured over 61 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 16, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Modern History's engagement rate beats 62% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 76% 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 0.116%, Modern History sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,956 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
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 17:00 UTC, and Thursday 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 | 97% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 97% 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.
- 0% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 175 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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 31, 202681x their median
In August 2014, Mel Gibson’s chair gave out during an Expendables 3 press conference. He laughed it off, joked that he had just lost weight, and parked himself on Sylvester Stallone’s knee until they brought another chair. Do you remember this clip? https://t.co/kXm3KuYHQJ
- Sep 16, 202634x their median
Zendaya cut her hair short for the Emmys. The room said Halle Berry before she even sat down. Law Roach posted the original. Halle Berry answered: "She murdered the night." Same sparkle. Twenty-four years later. https://t.co/rsTLg4LZ1F
- Aug 30, 202627x their median
Dolly Parton on her ABC variety show Dolly, 1987–88, wearing her real hair instead of the famous wigs. https://t.co/bYsnr29y2w
- Oct 15, 202625x their median
Pierce Brosnan and Keely Shaye Smith met in Mexico in 1994 and married in Ireland on August 4, 2001. 25 years of marriage, still going strong. What’s the secret to a long marriage? https://t.co/tYt5ICXFCn
- Sep 12, 202622x their median
Salma Hayek in the 1990s & now. She is 60, aging like fine wine. https://t.co/cfpNEddKVp
- Sep 3, 202621x their median
Madonna and her daughter in 2020 and 2026 https://t.co/13UrgSHsu3
- Sep 16, 202616x their median
Michael J. Fox has been on the Emmy stage for 40 years, with his first win in 1986 for Family Ties and five acting Emmys in all. Last night he came back for the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award, the same man who was diagnosed at 29 and built a foundation that put billions into Parkinson’s research. Which Michael J. Fox movie is your favorite?
- Oct 14, 202613x their median
A late 90s aerobics class in a room that looks more like a palace than a gym. Statues in the background, colorful leotards, and everyone in white sneakers. https://t.co/8Icy2krm6N
- Aug 27, 202613x their median
Dolly Parton and Bruce Willis on ABC’s Dolly in 1987. This was the moment two very different kinds of stardom shared the same stage, back when a variety show could still feel like an event. https://t.co/xR7VzMODsC
- Sep 4, 202611x their median
John Malkovich, 1990 and 2026. Same stare, thirty-six years later. Which John Malkovich movie is your favorite? https://t.co/mvNfyl82ed
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 353 interactions against 308K followers, an engagement rate of 0.116%. Measured over 61 original posts, its engagement rate beats 62% 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 11K times each, and 3.19% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.60% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 61 posts sampled, 97% carry an image or video and 8% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 28K interactions, about 81x its own typical post.
- What is Modern History's engagement rate on X?
- Modern History (@modernhistory) has an engagement rate of 0.116%, based on the median interactions across 61 original posts from the last 30 days against 307,559 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.116%, Modern History sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,956 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 @modernhistory have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 62% 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 @modernhistory post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.3 posts per day across the measured window.