Natural History Museum engagement report
@NHM_London - 2.0M followers on X
Measured over 20 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 82 interactions against 2.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 20 original posts, its engagement rate beats 32% of 3,899 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 9.3K times each, and 0.883% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.455% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 20 posts sampled, 60% carry an image or video and 40% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 857 interactions, about 10x its own typical post.
Measured over 20 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Natural History Museum's engagement rate beats 32% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 53% 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 0.004%, Natural History Museum sits above 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 08:00 UTC, and Friday 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 26, 202610x their median
We’re excited to share a first look at the 62nd Wildlife Photographer of the Year images! 😲 📸 Featuring 100 photographs awarded for their creativity and skill, get ready to explore the beauty of the natural world in our new exhibition! Which image is your favourite? https://t.co/S5tSvHpdXU
- Aug 29, 20266.8x their median
Can you spot the difference? 👀 Although these photos were taken over 100 years apart, our Minerals Gallery is much the same - right down to the original oak display cabinets from 1881. Do you like the original Victorian gallery feel, or do you prefer something more modern? https://t.co/xI3eDHZIy9
- Aug 22, 20265.8x their median
This beautiful dictionary of colours found in nature dates back to more than a century before Pantone. 🎨 Werner's Nomenclature of Colour was an indispensable resource for Charles Darwin, helping him describe new species. We love these natural colours - which do you like best? https://t.co/3cMF5pxl9H
- Jul 21, 20265.7x their median
Did you know that there’s a 1,300-year old tree slice in the Natural History Museum? 🌳 Find out more about the giant sequoia in our new series, Natural History Museum Showstoppers. 👇 https://t.co/Qai2KvcAv9
- Aug 27, 20265.4x their median
The glass models that tell the story of life in the deep sea. 🦑 These were made by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, who created over 10,000 glass models of jellyfish, octopus and squid. Have you seen these in our Treasures gallery? 😍 https://t.co/FegOn3fdag
- Jul 31, 20264.3x their median
Purple is relatively rare in nature - but there are some powerfully purple species across the globe! Let’s meet some of the purplest players seen in the natural world ⬇️🧵 https://t.co/VtE6H5RUz4
- Jun 16, 20263.1x their median
We love our beautiful 1930s blue whale model! 🐳 This is a particularly impressive model, as it was built at the time when living whales weren’t studied. To make it, its makers had to rely on images of carcasses stranded on beaches. Have you seen it before? https://t.co/eNCQYbia1d
- Aug 14, 20262.8x their median
Minerals gallery appreciation moment 🚨💎 Doesn’t our Minerals gallery look gorgeous in the morning sun? Let us know when you last visited it below! 👇 https://t.co/tTuuNoJT8s
- Jul 2, 20262.7x their median
Just a moment of appreciation for our Minerals gallery! 😍💎 From sparkling gems to striking minerals from around the world, there’s so much to explore! Did you know that the specimens are displayed in original 19th century oak cabinets? https://t.co/sv6Kl3n3S8
- Aug 17, 20262.4x their median
The light is shining through the stained glass of our Treasures gallery to frame Hope and Hintze Hall beautifully this morning. 🐋 From Hope and all of us here at the Natural History Museum: good morning, and have a fantastic start to the week! 🌞 https://t.co/tSXZV040ZW
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 82 interactions against 2.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 20 original posts, its engagement rate beats 32% of 3,899 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 9.3K times each, and 0.883% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.455% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 20 posts sampled, 60% carry an image or video and 40% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 857 interactions, about 10x its own typical post.
- What is Natural History Museum's engagement rate on X?
- Natural History Museum (@NHM_London) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 20 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,041,526 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.004%, Natural History Museum sits above 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 @NHM_London have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 32% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 @NHM_London post?
- Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.2 posts per day across the measured window.