NBC News Health engagement report
@NBCNewsHealth - 854K followers on X
Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 854K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 9% of 3,899 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 2.3K times each, and 0.258% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.273% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.77 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 29 interactions, about 4.8x its own typical post.
Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
NBC News Health's engagement rate beats 9% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 20% 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 0.001%, NBC News Health sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,856 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 | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 155.6% |
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 19:00 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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Aug 25, 20264.8x their median
Two die of measles in Pennsylvania outbreak https://t.co/w7MXLqAP6d
- Jul 16, 20262.3x their median
Investigators are focused on four Midwestern states: Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. https://t.co/3mz97V2cin
- Aug 26, 20262.2x their median
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a groundbreaking pancreatic cancer drug that experts predict will transform treatment for the notoriously deadly disease. https://t.co/cqKRocLYB0
- Jul 7, 20262.2x their median
The demand for tests for cyclosporiasis, a pathogen often caused by contaminated fresh produce, is so intense, with so many patients seeking help for diarrhea and crippling abdominal cramps, that many labs can’t keep up. https://t.co/dLHUNO7Gbb
- Jul 14, 20262.0x their median
Nearly 7,000 cases of cyclosporiasis confirmed or under investigation nationwide, CDC says https://t.co/kt2XtYrAaI
- Aug 13, 20261.8x their median
Lyme disease is no longer just a Northeast threat, new research shows. Doctors in other parts of the country should be on alert, experts say. https://t.co/vUkGsptVvj
- Aug 10, 20261.7x their median
Trump order aims to cut number of diseases all children should be vaccinated against from 18 to 11 https://t.co/bJuv9j6W3Z
- Jul 28, 20261.7x their median
Health officials have suspected food sources other than iceberg lettuce in this season’s outbreaks, namely cilantro and parsley, but haven’t confirmed either one. https://t.co/3sh3SHg1qB
- Aug 27, 20261.5x their median
Coroner says baby with measles in Pennsylvania died of a ruptured spleen https://t.co/NgsV3qg0Nw
- Aug 19, 20261.5x their median
People infected with salmonella bacteria often have diarrhea, stomach cramps and a fever that comes on within hours to a few days after eating tainted food. https://t.co/YQJVf2CatL
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 6 interactions against 854K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 9% of 3,899 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 2.3K times each, and 0.258% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.273% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.77 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 29 interactions, about 4.8x its own typical post.
- What is NBC News Health's engagement rate on X?
- NBC News Health (@NBCNewsHealth) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 23 original posts from the last 30 days against 853,625 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, NBC News Health sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,856 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 @NBCNewsHealth have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 9% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 @NBCNewsHealth post?
- Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.77 posts per day across the measured window.