National Institute of Standards and Technology

@NIST · Gaithersburg, MD; Boulder, CO · joined 12 Jun 2009

NIST promotes U.S. innovation & competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards & tech to enhance economic security & improve our quality of life.

95 383Followers

461Following

19 125Posts total

34.9KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views2 874this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.01%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.94%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 874	2 896	0.99×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.01%	9.51%	0.32×
Engagement rate	0.94%	1.56%	0.60×

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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

23.3K18 Mar

3.1K26 Aug

3.9K27 Aug

2.6K1 Sep

2K2 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.44%18 Mar

0.76%26 Aug

1.37%27 Aug

1.11%1 Sep

0.66%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes66.5%169 in total

Reposts9.1%23 in total

Replies9.8%25 in total

Quotes2.4%6 in total

Bookmarks12.2%31 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

NIST has updated the National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank, a collection of 80,000 marine mammal specimens. Scientists use it to study marine mammal health, the ocean itself and human health. This is a collab between NIST and @NOAA at the Hollings Marine Lab in Charleston, SC. htt 2K views · 10 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 We call this making mountains out of molehills! This image shows one of the fingerprint ridge patterns that NIST researchers studied while working on contactless fingerprint collection calibration targets. Each of the ridges shown below is only about 300 to 400 micrometers wide. 2.6K views · 26 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 Did you know that a material can change its magnetic properties? In this video, our researcher shows how a magnetic steel sample sticks to a magnet (shown in yellow), but once it’s heated above a certain temperature, it loses that property. https://t.co/GNqZQbFUz4 3.9K views · 34 likes · 8 reposts · 11 replies 27 Aug 2026 Knowing an IV’s flow rate — the volume of fluid entering the patient each second or minute — is crucial to delivering the right amount of medication at the right time. A NIST intern spent the summer helping us better understand these important flows. 🔗 https://t.co/9IGKhGoNbV h 3.1K views · 23 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 26 Aug 2026 🎧 Introducing NIST Lofi 🎧 Our curated playlist of chill beats pairs well with finally finishing that thing you've put off. Listen here: https://t.co/rmB86bslYW 23.3K views · 76 likes · 9 reposts · 14 replies 18 Mar 2026