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NASA engagement report

@NASA - 92M followers on X

Measured over 49 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.003%
of 92M followers
Per impression
0.298%
991K views on a typical post
Reach
1.07%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
3.0K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.011%
110 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.7/day
active 87% of days
Peak time
19:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 3.0K interactions against 92M followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Posts are seen about 991K times each, and 0.298% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.07% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 49 posts sampled, 78% carry an image or video, 8% are part of a thread and 86% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 8.7x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #iac2026, #crew12, #crew13.

Measured over 49 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026. Recurring tags: #iac2026, #crew12, #crew13.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.003%, NASA sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,424 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.677%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,424 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,888 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.677%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 19:00 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: 19:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 19:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%89K
01:00 UTC-2%90K
02:00 UTC-3%88K
03:00 UTC-4%94K
04:00 UTC-5%76K
05:00 UTC-4%75K
06:00 UTC-5%86K
07:00 UTC-5%93K
08:00 UTC-4%108K
09:00 UTC-4%124K
10:00 UTC-3%129K
11:00 UTC-3%141K
12:00 UTC-3%154K
13:00 UTC-3%167K
14:00 UTC-4%173K
15:00 UTC-2%176K
16:00 UTC-3%171K
17:00 UTC-3%159K
18:00 UTC-2%149K
19:00 UTC-2%141K
20:00 UTC-1%131K
21:00 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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 111%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Formats this account uses

Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video78% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link86% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 78% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
  • 86% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
  • Its average post runs 240 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.

Best tweets

  • Oct 11, 20268.7x their median

    While observing the universe, @NASAHubble caught a galaxy cluster smiling for the camera. 😊 The smile lines are arcs caused by an effect known as gravitational lensing, where massive structures warp spacetime with their powerful gravitational forces and act as a cosmic lens. https://t.co/R3YMVpOqt4

    20K3.7K7917022.2M viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 20267.1x their median

    Yesterday's total solar eclipse in parts of Europe – and the partial eclipse in parts of North America – gave us spectacular views. @NASAHQPhoto was on location to capture the sights. See more: https://t.co/IQ6yWeVbXl https://t.co/F3NESAqrts

    17K3.4K2721452.0M viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20266.4x their median

    NASA honors the memory of Dolly Parton, who passed away on Aug. 25, 2026. In 1989, Dolly performed at @NASAJohnson's Rocket Park, alongside fellow musicians Willie Nelson and Kenny Rogers, to an audience of over 12,000 NASA employees and their families. https://t.co/9lzOlUVmsg

    17K1.6K12046857K viewsView on X
  • Oct 2, 20266.1x their median

    Welcome aboard! 🙌 After nearly eight hours in flight, Crew-13 arrived at the @Space_Station, where they will spend the next several months conducting experiments on science and tech to benefit life on Earth and in space. https://t.co/2bTqsLFWa6

    16K1.9K5001391.6M viewsView on X
  • Jun 29, 20264.6x their median

    Text no longer retained for this post.

    14K2.7K387128995K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 20265.6x their median

    25 years ago, the Sept. 11th tragedy left us forever changed. Today, we pause to remember the Americans who lost their lives — as well as the survivors and the heroes of that day. We will never forget: https://t.co/uf7bSE315E https://t.co/980MiQlbw9

    15K1.2K217261.6M viewsView on X
  • Jun 28, 20264.3x their median

    Text no longer retained for this post.

    13K2.7K183681.3M viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 20265.2x their median

    Roman is on her way, and the Golden Age of Discovery is just the beginning. https://t.co/Nr5pJRyXM5

    13K1.6K3231061.8M viewsView on X
  • Aug 5, 20265.2x their median

    On Aug. 12, you have the chance to experience a total solar eclipse from anywhere in the world. Starting at 1:15pm ET (1715 UTC), we'll stream live as the Moon passes in front of the Sun, bringing the views and the science straight to you. Get safe viewing tips in this video. https://t.co/AMkUR50Fo7

    12K3.0K2872151.9M viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20264.8x their median

    LIVE: We're back with another spacewalk! NASA's @astro_anil and ESA's @Soph_astro are retrieving and installing a high-speed communications antenna outside the @Space_Station. https://t.co/dCMMianTwt

    11K1.7K6681861.7M 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

#iac2026#crew12#crew13

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 3.0K interactions against 92M followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Posts are seen about 991K times each, and 0.298% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.07% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 49 posts sampled, 78% carry an image or video, 8% are part of a thread and 86% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 8.7x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #iac2026, #crew12, #crew13.

What is NASA's engagement rate on X?
NASA (@NASA) has an engagement rate of 0.003%, based on the median interactions across 49 original posts from the last 30 days against 92,312,271 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.003%, NASA sits below the 10th percentile of the 204,424 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 @NASA have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @NASA post?
Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.7 posts per day across the measured window.

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