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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.016% |
| 50th percentile | 0.1% |
| 75th percentile | 0.499% |
| 90th percentile | 2.09% |
| 99th percentile | 119.9% |
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.
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 | 0% 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
- 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
- Sep 3, 202616x their median
Madonna and her daughter in 2020 and 2026 https://t.co/13UrgSHsu3
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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?
- 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
- 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
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.