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Reed Timmer, PhD engagement report

@ReedTimmerUSA - 879K followers on X

Measured over 91 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.057%
of 879K followers
Per impression
1.51%
33K views on a typical post
Reach
3.79%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
503
interactions (median)
Saved
0.036%
12 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
4.27/day
active 90% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 503 interactions against 879K followers, an engagement rate of 0.057%. Measured over 91 original posts, its engagement rate beats 64% of 15,519 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 33K times each, and 1.51% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.80% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 91 posts sampled, 93% carry an image or video and 7% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 15K interactions, about 31x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #tornado, #dominator, #edouard.

Measured over 91 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026. Recurring tags: #tornado, #dominator, #edouard.

Compared with accounts its own size

Reed Timmer, PhD's engagement rate beats 64% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 61% 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 0.057%, Reed Timmer, PhD sits above the 25th percentile of the 157,233 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.022% to 0.128%.

p100.003%
p250.022%
p50 (median)0.128%
p750.604%
p902.32%
p9983.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 157,233 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 26,048 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 percentile0.003%
25th percentile0.022%
50th percentile0.128%
75th percentile0.604%
90th percentile2.32%
99th percentile83.4%

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 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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: 16:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 16:00 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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Tuesday
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 video93% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link7% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 93% 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.
  • 7% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 190 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

  • Aug 18, 202631x their median

    how many never-ending pasta bowls you gotta eat to earn that drip? https://t.co/ZbqtZhahD7

    14K86511190430K viewsView on X
  • Sep 8, 202614x their median

    Tornado of the year off Pensacola, FL yesterday https://t.co/tTSSD1BPaq

    6.5K5318825232K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 202611x their median

    I believe this deadly mega flash flood / debris flow in Nepal was caused by a glacier break and instantaneous massive flood of mass down the river gorge https://t.co/W6MyL24Bnt

    4.8K54318158276K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20269.1x their median

    This powerful tornado in France exhibited a helical dynamic pipe above ground not dissimilar from the Greenfield, Iowa tornado in 2024 https://t.co/it67D0KXzP

    4.1K3767320147K viewsView on X
  • Sep 18, 20268.5x their median

    You gotta be kidding me with this Utah #tornado today https://t.co/aWzviwAtn5

    3.9K2995414157K viewsView on X
  • Sep 12, 20267.8x their median

    INSANE #TORNADO INTERCEPT ripped my kayak off the Dominator F150 and blew out the back window north of Artichoke, Minnesota @meganjrenee @accuweather https://t.co/JvQdpEQMbl

    3.4K40510230176K viewsView on X
  • Sep 7, 20267.3x their median

    Good heavens me - check out the dual surface inflow channels into the EF3 tornadeaux in France last month. The tornado impacts the cameras https://t.co/Yu9HoZZYxY

    3.3K3294424276K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20266.8x their median

    Powerful tornado with massive clear slot in France today ahead of a potent mid-latitude cyclone https://t.co/a6FMDQx49B

    2.9K3964921113K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20265.4x their median

    It’s happening. BUCKLE UP https://t.co/xyH6Xq6hhH

    2.4K198621094K viewsView on X
  • Aug 16, 20264.7x their median

    We chased a #tornado warned supercell that caused flooding and sounded the sirens in the Columbus, Ohio area https://t.co/nAPeb6nQN6

    2.2K1692818131K 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

#tornado#dominator#edouard#stormchasing#flood

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 503 interactions against 879K followers, an engagement rate of 0.057%. Measured over 91 original posts, its engagement rate beats 64% of 15,519 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 33K times each, and 1.51% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.80% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 91 posts sampled, 93% carry an image or video and 7% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 15K interactions, about 31x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #tornado, #dominator, #edouard.

What is Reed Timmer, PhD's engagement rate on X?
Reed Timmer, PhD (@ReedTimmerUSA) has an engagement rate of 0.057%, based on the median interactions across 91 original posts from the last 30 days against 879,272 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.057%, Reed Timmer, PhD sits above the 25th percentile of the 157,233 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 @ReedTimmerUSA have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 64% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @ReedTimmerUSA post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.27 posts per day across the measured window.

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