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Library of Congress

@librarycongress · Washington, DC · joined 29 Jun 2007

Official account of the world’s largest library. Explore collections & plan a visit. All Library accounts: https://t.co/KMH2LPXfZv

1 124 140Followers
13Following
25 596Posts total
51.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views3 092this account20 146median for 1M–10M
Reach, %0.28%this account0.85%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %0.31%this account1.63%median for 1M–10M
MetricThis accountMedian for 1M–10MRatio
Median views per post3 09220 1460.15×
Reach (views ÷ followers)0.28%0.85%0.32×
Engagement rate0.31%1.63%0.19×

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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

8.3K31 Aug
20.3K1 Sep
261
5.9K
682 Sep
17
7.4K
8.9K3 Sep
33
194 Sep

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.35%31 Aug
1.66%1 Sep
3.83%
0.27%
0.00%2 Sep
0.00%
1.03%
2.39%3 Sep
0.00%
0.00%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 1.63%.

What the audience does

Likes75.6%554 in total
Reposts14.2%104 in total
Replies2.0%15 in total
Quotes1.0%7 in total
Bookmarks7.2%53 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

@librarycongress She rocks!!!!! 19 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 @librarycongress Lovely! https://t.co/j97Ztcsoi5 33 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Chef Carla Hall recently visited the Library of Congress to narrate her children's books for the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled! 📚 https://t.co/H6EhBpg0jz 8.9K views · 179 likes · 29 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 The most famous of Scotland's Highland games, the Braemar Gathering, takes place this weekend in Aberdeenshire. These photos of the 1950 Braemar Gathering by Toni Frissell are part of the large collection of her work she donated to the Library in 1970. 🧵 https://t.co/PXP6yXLrBb 7.4K views · 64 likes · 10 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 @librarycongress https://t.co/SOYRL7FDWm 17 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 @librarycongress Copyright law had no category for motion pictures in 1894, so it was entered as a photograph on 9 January and the deposit was 45 frames printed on paper, and it was not seen moving again until those stills were rephotographed onto 16mm film in 1953. 68 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Live! at the Library this month: A new exhibit, Italian fashion night, and a recording of “The Omnibus Project" with Ken Jennings. Join us! https://t.co/6lqZFzMghO https://t.co/UgOctlDpzd 5.9K views · 11 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 @librarycongress And here is what Edison's Kinetograph looked like on paper. U.S. Patent No. 589,168 for the “Kinetographic Camera” was granted on August 31, 1897, although the application had been filed six years earlier, on August 24, 1891. The patent drawings show the mechanis 261 views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 Around this time in 1897, Thomas Edison was likely celebrating receiving a patent for the Kinetograph, his early motion picture camera. The first films ever copyrighted were made with it, including this one from 1894, which the Library has preserved. It's colloquially known as ht 20.3K views · 270 likes · 55 reposts · 8 replies 01 Sep 2026 MAGAZINE MONDAY | In his autobiography, Miles Davis called collaborator Gil Evans "probably my best and oldest friend." The Library's Music Division recently acquired over 350 of Evans' scores. https://t.co/P8zNNx4fW8 8.3K views · 20 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies 31 Aug 2026

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