National Guard engagement report
@USNationalGuard - 815K followers on X
Measured over 56 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 68 interactions against 815K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 56 original posts, its engagement rate beats 31% of 3,758 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 7.6K times each, and 0.89% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.931% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 56 posts sampled, 66% carry an image or video and 68% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.4K interactions, about 139x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #okguard, #spp, #dcsafe.
Measured over 56 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #okguard, #spp, #dcsafe.
Compared with accounts its own size
National Guard's engagement rate beats 31% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 50% 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 0.008%, National Guard sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 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 | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 17:00 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 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% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 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% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 26, 2026139x their median
The National Guard honors @DollyParton, a proud daughter of Tennessee and a true friend of our Guardsmen. Dolly supported service members through USO programs and base visits, bringing joy to Guardsmen at home and around the globe. On Sept. 8, 2004, the 134th Air Refueling Wing unveiled “Miss Dolly” nose art on a KC-135 at McGhee Tyson ANGB. She was predeceased by her husband of nearly 59 years, Carl Dean, who served two years stateside in the Army National Guard during the Vietnam era. Fair Skies, Miss Dolly.
- Aug 23, 20265.5x their median
VIDEO: Nevada Army Guard drops water on Hawk Fire, Aug. 23, 2026. #hawkfire https://t.co/aDSQzeleK9
- Aug 24, 20265.4x their median
Did you know? Airmen with the @DCGuard1802 ’s 113th Wing maintain around-the-clock readiness to rapidly launch F-16 Fighting Falcons to identify and intercept aircraft in defense of the skies over the nation’s capital. https://t.co/zv8ODck1mu
- Aug 26, 20263.3x their median
Always Ready, Always There! Montana National Guard Soldiers rescued an injured 15-year-old hiker near Moon Lake in the Beartooth Mountains. 🔗https://t.co/bwB0V4PFFO https://t.co/ikv2ZGsZWb
- Aug 7, 20263.2x their median
Check out some of the best photos from around the National Guard this week! 📸https://t.co/2bA3YNBuFU https://t.co/wSZmjBua7L
- Aug 25, 20263.2x their median
When his base came under attack while deployed, @OHNationalGuard Master Sgt. Daniel Rogers proved that Always Ready, Always There is more than a motto and received the Bronze Star for his actions safeguarding more than 320 coalition personnel. 🔗https://t.co/XRJWhAniID https://t.co/2vy60lhgKP
- Aug 28, 20262.8x their median
Check out some of the best photos from around the National Guard this week! See more: https://t.co/2bA3YNAWQm https://t.co/xATjK5buMf
- Aug 19, 20262.2x their median
When the water rises fast, every second matters. Hawaii National Guardsmen demonstrated that Always Ready, Always There is more than a motto, rescuing two paramedics when their truck became stranded in rapidly rising water. https://t.co/t9GeoFFTfP
- Aug 22, 20261.9x their median
New York and South Dakota National Guard members joined their Swedish counterparts in preparing aircraft and equipment for an air show to commemorate 100 years of Swedish air power. 🔗https://t.co/kibM991Umy https://t.co/alacPpW4xP
- Aug 29, 20261.8x their median
New York National Guard and Swedish military leaders and aviators strengthened their partnership while participating in the Swedish Air Force’s centennial Jubilee Air Show. The New York National Guard and @Forsvarsmakten are paired through the State Partnership Program. https://t.co/YPMUeMUHUq
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 68 interactions against 815K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 56 original posts, its engagement rate beats 31% of 3,758 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 7.6K times each, and 0.89% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.931% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 56 posts sampled, 66% carry an image or video and 68% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.4K interactions, about 139x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #okguard, #spp, #dcsafe.
- What is National Guard's engagement rate on X?
- National Guard (@USNationalGuard) has an engagement rate of 0.008%, based on the median interactions across 56 original posts from the last 30 days against 814,861 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.008%, National Guard sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 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 @USNationalGuard have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 31% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 @USNationalGuard post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.43 posts per day across the measured window.