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Modern History engagement report

@modernhistory - 308K followers on X

Measured over 54 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 5, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.146%
of 308K followers
Per impression
3.27%
14K views on a typical post
Reach
4.48%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
451
interactions (median)
Saved
0.156%
22 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2/day
active 37% of days
Peak time
14:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 451 interactions against 308K followers, an engagement rate of 0.146%. Measured over 54 original posts, its engagement rate beats 68% of 6,874 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 14K times each, and 3.27% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.48% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 54 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 7% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 28K interactions, about 63x its own typical post.

Measured over 54 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 5, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Modern History's engagement rate beats 68% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 79% 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 0.146%, Modern History sits above the 50th percentile of the 66,128 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.1% to 0.499%.

p100.002%
p250.016%
p50 (median)0.1%
p750.499%
p902.09%
p99119.9%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 66,128 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 57,111 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.016%
50th percentile0.1%
75th percentile0.499%
90th percentile2.09%
99th percentile119.9%

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 14:00 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: 14:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 14:00 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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link0% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 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.
  • 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 205 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

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, 202663x 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
  • Aug 30, 202621x 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
  • Sep 3, 202616x their median

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

    5.6K3231.2K2472.8M viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20269.9x 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, 20268.5x 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
  • Aug 29, 20267.6x their median

    Erika Eleniak played Shauni McClain on Baywatch from 1989 to 1992 and became one of the faces that defined the red-swimsuit era. More than 30 years later, the same beach image that made her famous is back in the headlines after she joined OnlyFans at 56. https://t.co/vnd7dXMSwY

    3.1K16315621301K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20266.1x their median

    On 4 September 1995, Kate Moss went on The Big Breakfast to promote the War Child charity album Help, and host Gaby Roslin talked her into calling Johnny Depp over even though he was not on the guest list. He walked in, dropped onto the double bed with the supermodels, and gave morning television one of the most casually iconic celebrity drop-ins of the 90s. Would this still work on live TV today?

    2.6K1134811867K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20265.5x their median

    Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden welcomed their third child, a boy named Nautas, on May 4, 2026, with no paparazzi shots, no magazine exclusive, and no photos of the baby. The name comes from the Latin word for sailor: one who embarks on a journey and does not fear the unknown. Nautas joins sister Raddix and brother Cardinal, three children kept completely out of the spotlight while Diaz built a second chapter of motherhood after 47. Is this the most private A-list family in Hollywood?

    2.2K13016538313K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20265.3x their median

    Happy birthday to Michael Jackson The King of Pop — the voice, the dance, and the era that never really ended.🕊️ https://t.co/SPhGadMuHp

    1.9K454452222K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 20263.7x their median

    On 31 August 1997, Princess Diana died in Paris at 36. For millions she was not the palace figure, but the woman who felt close enough to be called the people’s princess https://t.co/nZW2pWcNCi

    1.3K312592634K 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 451 interactions against 308K followers, an engagement rate of 0.146%. Measured over 54 original posts, its engagement rate beats 68% of 6,874 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 14K times each, and 3.27% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.48% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 54 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 7% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 28K interactions, about 63x its own typical post.

What is Modern History's engagement rate on X?
Modern History (@modernhistory) has an engagement rate of 0.146%, based on the median interactions across 54 original posts from the last 30 days against 308,144 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.146%, Modern History sits above the 50th percentile of the 66,128 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 68% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.

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