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Brian Cox engagement report

@ProfBrianCox - 3.0M followers on X

Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.016%
of 3.0M followers
Per impression
0.568%
84K views on a typical post
Reach
2.80%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
477
interactions (median)
Saved
0.017%
14 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.63/day
active 37% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Sunday

A typical post picks up 477 interactions against 3.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Posts are seen about 84K times each, and 0.568% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.80% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.63 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 50% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 166K interactions, about 277x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #cern, #lab26, #physics.

Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026. Recurring tags: #cern, #lab26, #physics.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.016%, Brian Cox sits above 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 15:00 UTC, and Sunday 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: 15:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 15:00 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: Sunday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Sunday
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 video50% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link50% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 50% 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.
  • 50% 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 248 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

  • Jul 8, 2026277x their median

    Christ how powerful is Camilla’s fan ! #wimbledon #Fery https://t.co/MwyE9eNVsx

    156K8.2K1.0K6155.1M viewsView on X
  • Jul 1, 2026111x their median

    The extinction of the dinosaurs is technically the highest ratio of birds killed with one stone.

    59K6.2K1721962.0M viewsView on X
  • May 18, 2026168x their median

    She’s one of the few people who has a legitimate Bacon-Erdös-Sabbath number. Stephen Hawking is another person who has it.

    45K915190275.8M viewsView on X
  • May 21, 202612x their median

    Watch Starship's twelfth flight test https://t.co/wxna6dy4Lh

    29K5.9K1.5K1.0K6.1M viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 202631x their median

    That was wonderful wasn’t it ! https://t.co/PB05oliRnT

    13K72369839272K viewsView on X
  • Jul 27, 202618x their median

    🚨 NEW: The UK’s largest telescope for studying space is now set to close after the Government pulled its funding It supported various Apollo missions and tracked Soviet rockets in the Cold War https://t.co/e3Bdyz76yB

    6.4K7106226182.6M viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 202615x their median

    Sometimes your eyes need a minute to focus when you wake up. Roman's Wide Field Instrument just woke up for the first time EVER, and scientists have started adjusting its "eyes" so they can focus on the bigger picture. Check out its first test image below https://t.co/lkv3LFMyMR https://t.co/AnI6XU1MAm

    6.1K85410595492K viewsView on X
  • Jun 25, 20264.1x their median

    "One of the tests of an outgoing prime minister is whether you leave the country in a better state than [when] you found it. And I am leaving it in a better state" Sir Keir Starmer comments on what he achieved during his time in office in tackling illegal immigration 📺 Sky 501 https://t.co/5XjYfpqTKE

    2.8K3153.3K3633.1M viewsView on X
  • May 8, 202619x their median

    It's Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday and in 1980 he faced questions from an audience of young viewers about his life and television career. Lesley Judd hosted the show, and Attenborough talked about making a connection with gorillas, and his concerns for the environment. https://t.co/UBT8MuveLX

    4.3K8414457221K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 20269.6x their median

    Walking home a few minutes ago across the Charles Bridge in Prague ahead of the live show here tomorrow - it will be a special night for me because the entire Emergence show is inspired by the story of Johannes Kepler walking across this bridge in a New Year’s snow storm in 1609 and wondering about the origin of the six fold symmetry of a snowflake - the beginnings of modern science.

    4.2K2861016111K 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

#cern#lab26#physics#research#ukri

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 477 interactions against 3.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Posts are seen about 84K times each, and 0.568% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.80% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.63 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 50% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 166K interactions, about 277x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #cern, #lab26, #physics.

What is Brian Cox's engagement rate on X?
Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) has an engagement rate of 0.016%, based on the median interactions across 10 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,996,084 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.016%, Brian Cox sits above 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 @ProfBrianCox have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @ProfBrianCox post?
Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.63 posts per day across the measured window.

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