Discover Magazine engagement report
@DiscoverMag - 1.2M followers on X
Measured over 62 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 3 interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 62 original posts, its engagement rate beats 5% of 3,774 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 3.0K times each, and 0.099% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.261% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 62 posts sampled, 19% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 15 interactions, about 5.0x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #eclipse2026, #totalsolareclipse, #solareclipse.
Measured over 62 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #eclipse2026, #totalsolareclipse, #solareclipse.
Compared with accounts its own size
Discover Magazine's engagement rate beats 5% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 7% 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 under 0.001%, Discover Magazine sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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 18:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 98K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 15, 20265.0x their median
Learn more about what the first few moments of a supernova look like and the international collaboration that helped with these findings. https://t.co/uGBbRw7CF0
- Aug 28, 20264.0x their median
Learn how satellite radar captured the moment a Manhattan-sized ice island broke away from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier and why scientists are keeping a close watch. https://t.co/3SylZ3Xozc
- Aug 22, 20263.7x their median
Learn how retreating sea ice and shifting prey are turning East Greenland into a summer feeding ground for thousands of whales. https://t.co/JcYwGfAjlf
- Aug 28, 20263.0x their median
Learn about Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba that recently killed a Louisiana child and may become more common due to warming waters. https://t.co/I9HVjaft5R
- Aug 25, 20263.0x their median
Learn how a surprise discovery launched a search across tropical Queensland for an endangered lamprey and two possible new species. https://t.co/mBW88gx9zF https://t.co/a7PjOSaz0w
- Aug 28, 20262.7x their median
Learn about the shark graveyard found at an ancient rock formation in Egypt, where fossil teeth have revealed a diverse assemblage of sharks. https://t.co/W8CCWfX2mI
- Aug 14, 20262.7x their median
Learn how five chicks from Chester Zoo’s first secretarybird breeding success could help other zoos and habitat protection efforts in Africa. https://t.co/LcmFkWEDUN https://t.co/O3cLAxW3Jo
- Aug 26, 20262.0x their median
Learn how Pluto nearly kept its planet status in a proposed 12-planet Solar System as its demotion marks its 20th anniversary. https://t.co/GLuVKOtLlL
- Aug 26, 20262.0x their median
Learn more about new preprint research indicating that the San Andreas Fault is slipping faster than previously thought, and what that could mean for future earthquakes. https://t.co/XLiLURnaGU
- Aug 21, 20262.0x their median
Learn how mysterious fat droplets in cat kidneys may help create the chemical calling card hidden in their urine. https://t.co/Q4ie737Ywe
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
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 3 interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 62 original posts, its engagement rate beats 5% of 3,774 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 3.0K times each, and 0.099% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.261% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 62 posts sampled, 19% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 15 interactions, about 5.0x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #eclipse2026, #totalsolareclipse, #solareclipse.
- What is Discover Magazine's engagement rate on X?
- Discover Magazine (@DiscoverMag) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 62 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,163,663 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, Discover Magazine sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 @DiscoverMag have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 5% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% 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 @DiscoverMag post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.07 posts per day across the measured window.