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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

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.116%
of 308K followers
Per impression
3.19%
11K views on a typical post
Reach
3.62%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
353
interactions (median)
Saved
0.163%
18 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.3/day
active 47% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Thursday

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%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,956 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 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 percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
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 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.

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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video97% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link0% 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

    26K1.9K138612.4M viewsView on X
  • 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

    11K58931135220K viewsView on X
  • 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

    9.0K32565322.9M viewsView on X
  • 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

    7.7K43155777543K viewsView on X
  • Sep 12, 202622x their median

    Salma Hayek in the 1990s & now. She is 60, aging like fine wine. https://t.co/cfpNEddKVp

    7.2K358672698K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 202621x their median

    Madonna and her daughter in 2020 and 2026 https://t.co/13UrgSHsu3

    5.6K3231.2K2472.8M viewsView on X
  • 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?

    5.1K569981762K viewsView on X
  • 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

    4.2K31712932172K viewsView on X
  • 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

    3.9K4324915172K viewsView on X
  • 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

    3.3K21734036199K viewsView on X

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.

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