EnglishNew Scientist is on Twitter (X) as @newscientist, with 4,315,786 followers and 168,812 posts. It lost 416 followers in the last 7 days and 558 in the last 30 days. A typical post draws 10 interactions, an engagement rate of 0% per follower.
Insights
Over the last 30 days @newscientist lost 558 followers (-0.01%). In the last 7 days the change was -416 followers. Its strongest tracked day added +2,931 followers on Jul 19, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 10 interactions against 4.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 1030 original posts, its engagement rate beats 3% of 20,182 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 6.5K times each, and 0.153% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.151% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline.
Measured over 1030 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
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Best tracked day: +2.9K followers on 2026-07-19.
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- New Scientist posts on Twitter (X) as @newscientist. The profile is at x.com/newscientist, and the View on X button at the top of this page opens it.
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