Military History Now ✓

@MilHistNow · joined 10 May 2012

The official Twitter account for the website Military History Now. Daily #MilitaryHistory tweets.

208 953Followers

3 673Following

25 232Posts total

45.4KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views479this account4 963median for 100K–1M

Reach, %0.23%this account2.08%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.72%this account1.47%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	479	4 963	0.10×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.23%	2.08%	0.11×
Engagement rate	1.72%	1.47%	1.17×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

9.8K4 Sep

168

159

23.6K5 Sep

2.9K

5.2K

479

2.6K

331

139

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.26%4 Sep

1.19%

1.89%

2.72%5 Sep

2.58%

0.00%

1.72%

2.51%

1.53%

0.60%

0.00%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes82.7%933 in total

Reposts10.9%123 in total

Replies1.7%19 in total

Quotes1.0%11 in total

Bookmarks3.7%42 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

@MilHistNow ‘All a man can do, our fellowes will do’ Field Marshal Sir John French, Paris 1914 139 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 @MilHistNow Britain simply should have stayed out. Millions of lives would have been saved. 331 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 05 Sep 2026 Today in 1905, the Treaty of Portsmouth concludes the nearly two-year-old Russo-Japanese War. Talks are held at the Portsmouth shipyard in Kittery, New Hampshire (now Maine). U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt wins America's first Nobel Peace Prize for steering the negotiations. h 2.6K views · 33 likes · 7 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 @MilHistNow It would've been better if Germany had won this one. Capture Paris and end the war by Christmas, 30+M don't die over four years, "Spanish Flu" doesn't migrate from Kansas to the trenches then everywhere else killing 100M more, the European empires don't collapse, the 479 views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 05 Sep 2026 On this day in 1798, Revolutionary France enacts military conscription. The Jourdan Law requires all males between 20 and 25 to serve in the army. "Every Frenchman is a soldier and owes himself to the defence of the nation." https://t.co/pBCV1sUbk5 5.2K views · 73 likes · 14 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 @MilHistNow We’re gonna sweep them down the hill just as they come up 17 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 On this day in 1914, Germany's U-21 becomes the first submarine in history to sink a ship using a self-propelled torpedo. More than 250 British sailors go down with the scout cruiser HMS Pathfinder, which is struck just off Scotland's Firth of Forth. https://t.co/wM8oyGHR18 2.9K views · 63 likes · 10 reposts · 1 replies 05 Sep 2026 Today in 1914, after weeks of retreating in the face of the advancing German army, French and British troops launch a counter-attack east of Paris. The Battle of the Marne, which lasts for seven days, saves France and ends Berlin's hopes for a quick victory on the Western Front. 23.6K views · 543 likes · 84 reposts · 9 replies 05 Sep 2026 @MilHistNow https://t.co/y00aoFbude 159 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 @MilHistNow https://t.co/3o6gA202bQ 168 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 TWITTER in 2026: "Okay, everyone, the whole Chud Army is going to come up through that notch in the trees right over there." https://t.co/SJrzNz51QZ 9.8K views · 205 likes · 8 reposts · 6 replies 04 Sep 2026