U.S. Marines engagement report
@USMC - 1.8M followers on X
Measured over 76 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 896 interactions against 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.049%. Measured over 76 original posts, its engagement rate beats 74% of 3,881 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 36K times each, and 2.52% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.95% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 76 posts sampled, 97% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.7K interactions, about 5.3x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #marines, #marinecorps, #usmc.
Measured over 76 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #marines, #marinecorps, #usmc.
Compared with accounts its own size
U.S. Marines's engagement rate beats 74% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,881 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 81% 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 0.049%, U.S. Marines sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,582 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.081%.
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 | 158.1% |
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 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% | 52K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 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% | 62K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 74K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 89K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 104K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 94K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 68K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 59K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 237K |
| Monday | 0% | 300K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 299K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 256K |
| Thursday | -1% | 249K |
| Friday | -3% | 258K |
| Saturday | +3% | 232K |
Best tweets
- Aug 14, 20265.3x their median
The Code Talkers Today, we honor the legacy of the Navajo Code Talkers, whose courage, resilience, and native language forever changed the course of history. During World War II, the Marine Corps turned to a method of communication that Japanese intelligence could never crack: the Navajo language. In 1942, a group of Navajo Marines developed an unbreakable oral code that allowed for fast and secure communication during battles throughout the Pacific Theater of Operations. Because of the code's strategic value, their heroic contributions remained secret until 1968. Semper Fidelis. ✍️ (U.S. Marine Corps graphic by Lance Cpl. Matthew Morales) #CodeTalker #SemperFi #USMC
- Aug 24, 20262.7x their median
#Marines with the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing fly F/A-18 Hornets in formation off the coast of Japan. U.S. Marines with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 152 took part in aerial refueling operations in support of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232, demonstrating the Marine Corps’ ability to sustain and generate combat airpower. #MarineCorps #USMC #SemperFi #Military
- Aug 20, 20262.0x their median
The Marine Corps continues its efforts to reconnect with Marines who were separated under the COVID-19 vaccine mandate and provide eligible Marines an opportunity to return to service. Through the COVID Reinstatement Cell, we have reached out to former Marines, helped guide them through the reinstatement process, and welcomed Marines back into the Corps. Our work is not finished. If you were affected and have not yet connected with us, we want to hear from you. The opportunity to return remains open.
- Aug 21, 20261.7x their median
#MarineCorps drill instructors with Bravo Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, perform Pick-up Day at @MCRD_SD, California. Pick-up Day signifies the first official day of training. Recruits are assigned to their platoons, introduced to their drill instructors, prepare their gear and squad bay, and learn the expectations for the remainder of their time in recruit training. #Marines #Military #USMC #SemperFi
- Aug 11, 20261.5x their median
#Marines with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit take part in marksmanship training on the flight deck of San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD 27) in the U.S. @CENTCOM area of responsibility. This training was completed to ensure Marines stay lethal and proficient with their issued weapon systems. #MarineCorps #USMC #SemperFi #Military
- Aug 13, 2026
#Reconnaissance Marines with the 2nd Marine Division participate in a multi-domain reconnaissance course on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. The multi-domain reconnaissance course provides the @26MEU’s maritime raid force and other intelligence collectors with reconnaissance and surveillance training, enabling the accomplishment of the 26th MEU’s mission essential tasks on their upcoming deployment. #Marines #SemperFi #MilitaryTraining
- Aug 29, 2026
#Marines with Marine Rotational Force – Darwin 26 take part in Exercise DELAYEN 26 in Tahiti, French Polynesia. Exercise DELAYEN 26 is a bilateral training exercise between Marine Rotational Force – Darwin 26 and the French Armed Forces in French Polynesia, designed to enhance tactical interoperability among forces in the Indo-Pacific. #USMC #Military
- Aug 23, 2026
#Marines with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit execute a vertical assault raid as part of routine training at Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, California. The 13th MEU and the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group are underway and taking part in routine operations in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area of operations to enhance their combined @USNavy - Marine Corps readiness and lethality.
- Aug 27, 2026
#Marines with the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing prepare for takeoff during exercise Red Flag-Alaska 26-3 at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. Red Flag-Alaska is an exercise designed to simulate complex combat scenarios in a realistic training environment, providing unique opportunities to integrate joint and coalition forces into multilateral training and enhancing 3rd MAW’s ability to project combat power. #MarineCorps #USMC #SemperFi #Military
- Aug 20, 2026
#Marines with the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing received a new shipment of F-35B Lightning II at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. The arrival of the F-35B Lightning II marked another step in VMFA-231’s preparation for official activation as an F-35B Lightning II squadron. #MarineCorps #USMC #SemperFi #Military
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 896 interactions against 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.049%. Measured over 76 original posts, its engagement rate beats 74% of 3,881 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 36K times each, and 2.52% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.95% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 76 posts sampled, 97% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.7K interactions, about 5.3x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #marines, #marinecorps, #usmc.
- What is U.S. Marines's engagement rate on X?
- U.S. Marines (@USMC) has an engagement rate of 0.049%, based on the median interactions across 76 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,822,769 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.049%, U.S. Marines sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,582 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 @USMC have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 74% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,881 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 @USMC post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.83 posts per day across the measured window.