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Everyday Astronaut engagement report

@Erdayastronaut - 2.1M followers on X

Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.062%
of 2.1M followers
Per impression
1.34%
95K views on a typical post
Reach
4.61%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1.3K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.088%
84 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.2/day
active 57% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 1.3K interactions against 2.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.062%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 78% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 95K times each, and 1.34% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.61% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 67% carry an image or video, 17% are part of a thread and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 141K interactions, about 111x its own typical post.

Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tag: #rocketenginesineverydayplacss.

Compared with accounts its own size

Everyday Astronaut's engagement rate beats 78% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 65% 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 0.062%, Everyday Astronaut sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,378 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.

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p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.432%
p902.10%
p99161.0%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,378 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,364 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.432%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile161.0%

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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 17:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 17:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
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
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%230K
Monday0%286K
Tuesday-2%276K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%244K
Friday-3%252K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Jul 29, 2026111x their median

    Starship still floating in the ocean https://t.co/eYm4OjDMf6

    123K9.2K8.1K1.1K16M viewsView on X
  • Jul 31, 202696x their median

    I finally have all 1.2 million raw image files from my latest mission to ISS! Here is a sample of one of my favorite Milky Way photos, taken from the Cupola with Nikon Z9, Arri Zeiss 15mm lens, T1.8 with custom sidereal drive that cancelled out star motion relative to our orbit. https://t.co/Sjm4UFgOs6

    107K14K1.5K9667.4M viewsView on X
  • Jul 28, 202625x their median

    We’re sending a ship out to recover Starship

    66K6.8K4.9K8838.5M viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20269.4x their median

    Looks like we will probably catch the ship with the tower in a few months. If there had been a tower out to sea where we practiced landing the ship, it would have been caught. First reflight of the ship will be either end of this year or early next. That will be a fork in the road of history for consciousness reaching the stars.

    25K2.4K1.5K2764.1M viewsView on X
  • Jun 7, 202622x their median

    Coming soon: one of history’s most complex missions Tune in on Tuesday, June 9, at 11am ET, to meet the astronauts flying aboard Artemis III, the mission that will test docking capabilities with commercial landers in low Earth orbit — an important step to crewed lunar landings. https://t.co/8XPmEVLwQK

    22K4.3K9004323.7M viewsView on X
  • Aug 10, 202621x their median

    A giant leap to Mars! 🚀 NASA recently completed testing of a lithium-fed electromagnetic thruster, reaching 5x more power than today's electric propulsion systems. Paired with a nuclear power source, this tech could slash travel time to Mars! MORE: https://t.co/1P7FnGfkf5… https://t.co/WGCf0GjGiE

    23K2.8K6133941.3M viewsView on X
  • Jul 11, 202620x their median

    Starship’s thirteenth flight test is preparing to launch as early as Thursday, July 16 → https://t.co/Rp7VwBzpWx https://t.co/jdpFlQUEpF

    20K3.3K8885564.8M viewsView on X
  • Jul 23, 202618x their median

    Now targeting Friday, July 24 for Starship’s thirteenth flight test, due to weather. A key objective for the flight test is to get clear imagery from the ground of Starship’s heatshield as it flies at a higher dynamic pressure during ascent, which won't be possible with today's weather conditions. Visibility is forecast to be ideal for a Friday attempt.

    19K2.4K7734481.8M viewsView on X
  • Jul 16, 20264.3x their median

    On track for Starship’s 13th flight test later today – the 90-minute launch window opens at 5:45 p.m. CT. Live coverage starts ~30 minutes before launch https://t.co/9drzTb14C0

    11K1.7K3391421.1M viewsView on X
  • Jul 24, 20269.3x their median

    Starship relight holy crap https://t.co/1fpQO477YP

    10K1.3K225226736K viewsView on X

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

#rocketenginesineverydayplacss

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 1.3K interactions against 2.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.062%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 78% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 95K times each, and 1.34% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.61% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 67% carry an image or video, 17% are part of a thread and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 141K interactions, about 111x its own typical post.

What is Everyday Astronaut's engagement rate on X?
Everyday Astronaut (@Erdayastronaut) has an engagement rate of 0.062%, based on the median interactions across 18 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,067,374 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.062%, Everyday Astronaut sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,378 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 @Erdayastronaut have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 78% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts), which puts it in the top quarter for its size 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 @Erdayastronaut post?
Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.2 posts per day across the measured window.

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