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SpaceX engagement report

@SpaceX - 42M followers on X

Measured over 68 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.023%
of 42M followers
Per impression
0.753%
1.3M views on a typical post
Reach
3.06%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
9.6K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.014%
184 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.83/day
active 73% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 9.6K interactions against 42M followers, an engagement rate of 0.023%. Measured over 68 original posts, its engagement rate beats 60% of 3,739 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 1.3M times each, and 0.753% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.06% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 68 posts sampled, 63% carry an image or video, 9% are part of a thread and 34% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 159K interactions, about 16x its own typical post.

Measured over 68 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

SpaceX's engagement rate beats 60% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 49% 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 0.023%, SpaceX sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.431%
p902.10%
p99160.7%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,261 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,137 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 percentile0.431%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.7%

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 6%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%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%51K
08:00 UTC-4%60K
09:00 UTC-3%69K
10:00 UTC-2%71K
11:00 UTC-3%78K
12:00 UTC-2%86K
13:00 UTC-2%93K
14:00 UTC-3%96K
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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%229K
Monday0%284K
Tuesday-2%273K
Wednesday-1%250K
Thursday-2%243K
Friday-3%251K
Saturday+3%226K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 6, 202616x their median

    Terafab Texas will be the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far. And it will be stunningly beautiful. https://t.co/4NweOqTL7y

    129K15K13K2.3K24M viewsView on X
  • Aug 7, 20265.6x their median

    The SpaceX Recovery team is still working to recover Flight 13’s Starship from the Indian Ocean. They’ve been overcoming challenging conditions and increasingly rough seas as they attempt to guide the 52m long spacecraft to port https://t.co/ECT5FyCvr7

    46K5.2K1.6K8694.4M viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20264.6x their median

    Introducing Starbase, Louisiana – a high-cadence launch site that will enable Starship to open a pathway to the stars for humanity. Thank you to @LAGovJeffLandry and the great people of Louisiana for all of their support as we work together on this audacious project → https://t.co/zGKVOGSxfW

    35K5.8K1.8K1.6K44M viewsView on X
  • Jul 28, 20263.9x their median

    Landing burn and splashdown of Starship on Flight 13 https://t.co/I1BWnGKpPo

    31K4.6K1.0K7316.6M viewsView on X
  • Aug 6, 20263.9x their median

    Terafab will be built in Grimes County, Texas In April, we broke ground on our research fab on the North Campus of Giga Texas – the precursor to Terafab. Both Tesla & SpaceX will need far more chips than current & future global production can supply. This is why we're building the largest chip manufacturing facility ever, with the goal of producing over 1 terawatt of compute per year The future is built in Texas https://t.co/RQPNlAasdP

    31K4.0K1.4K8435.7M viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20263.6x their median

    Starbase, Louisiana will be built to support thousands of Starship flights a year with missions launching to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond https://t.co/SE6gyNZWBK

    29K4.2K9616422.2M viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20263.4x their median

    Full duration 33-engine static fire with the Super Heavy booster preparing for Flight 14 https://t.co/0UXb7tvk7X

    28K3.3K1.1K50412M viewsView on X
  • Jul 31, 20262.9x their median

    View of Starship in space from a Starlink V3 satellite on Flight 13. This composite is made of imagery from four separate cameras on a single satellite. Six of the satellites were equipped with cameras to scan Starship’s heat shield and transmit imagery down to operators to continue testing methods of analyzing Starship’s heat shield readiness for return to launch site on future missions

    24K3.4K7544884.7M viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 20262.9x their median

    We made rockets reusable and are rebuilding the internet in space. The next challenge: making life multiplanetary and understanding the true nature of the universe Watch @ElonMusk deliver a company update to @SpaceX employees https://t.co/5c8rxoCQfu

    23K3.1K1.2K6198.0M viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 20262.4x their median

    SpaceX is partnering with @Nvidia to design the Starmind AI1 satellite compute payload. Each of the Starmind satellites will include NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs for datacenter class space compute → https://t.co/4MOQv0DvTQ https://t.co/rC7UBAznAO

    19K2.6K7315645.1M 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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 9.6K interactions against 42M followers, an engagement rate of 0.023%. Measured over 68 original posts, its engagement rate beats 60% of 3,739 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 1.3M times each, and 0.753% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.06% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 68 posts sampled, 63% carry an image or video, 9% are part of a thread and 34% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 159K interactions, about 16x its own typical post.

What is SpaceX's engagement rate on X?
SpaceX (@SpaceX) has an engagement rate of 0.023%, based on the median interactions across 68 original posts from the last 30 days against 41,900,661 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.023%, SpaceX sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,261 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 @SpaceX have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 60% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @SpaceX post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.83 posts per day across the measured window.

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