Thomas Pesquet engagement report
@Thom_astro - 1.3M followers on X
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 629 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.047%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 58% of 20,444 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 39K times each, and 1.60% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.96% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 15% are part of a thread and 62% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.7K interactions, about 14x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #pegase26, #wallpaperwednesday.
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026. Recurring tags: #pegase26, #wallpaperwednesday.
Compared with accounts its own size
Thomas Pesquet's engagement rate beats 58% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 60% 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 0.047%, Thomas Pesquet sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,798 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 62% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 100% 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.
- 62% 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 638 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.
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 26, 202614x their median
Comme beaucoup de gens, j’ai des proches touchés tragiquement par les incendies en Gironde 😢. Mes pensées vont à tous ceux qui ont tout perdu, et tout mon soutien et mon respect immense 🫡 à ceux qui combattent ces monstres de flammes. Ici une vue depuis un Canadair. https://t.co/oBfedWHuMS
- Aug 21, 202515x their median
📸 La découverte de pas mal de mes photos jamais postées (!) sur le sujet m'ont donné l'idée de les enchaîner chronologiquement pour décrire une sortie extravéhiculaire entière. Retour en juin 2021 pendant la mission #Alpha : sept heures suspendu au-dessus de la Terre 🌍, pour une installation de panneaux solaires... extrême. Allons-y photo par photo !!! Photo 1️⃣ Juste pour donner l'ambiance... mais revenons au début ⬇️ #AlphaArchives #Crew2 #Astronaute ©ESA/NASA-Thomas Pesquet @esa @ESA_fr @NASA @Space_Station
- Jul 27, 20267.7x their median
Le combat continue, force à ceux qui sont en pleine bataille encore aujourd’hui ! Il faudra s’en rappeler une fois le calme revenu. https://t.co/XSc1l3UroF
- Sep 9, 20265.6x their median
👨🚀👨🚀👨🚀 Un nouveau membre d’équipage rejoint la mission que je vais commander vers l’ISS en juillet 2027, Adrianós Golémis 🇬🇷. Nous sommes maintenant 3 européens 🇪🇺avec Aleš Svoboda 🇨🇿… Il nous reste une place : des volontaires ? #VastPAM1 @vast @CNES @esa @esa_fr @astro_ales @Astrovenator @Space_Station
- Aug 18, 20264.6x their median
[English below] 👩🏻🚀Bonne chance @Soph_astro pour ta première sortie extravéhiculaire ! Et profite bien de cette activité vertigineuse ! On sera tous avec toi depuis la Terre 🌍, petit clin d’œil à la team sortie : Jean-Loup Chrétien, Jean-Pierre Haigneré, Philippe Perrin. / 🤞Good luck to Sophie as she prepares to become the first French woman to perform a spacewalk today! 👏👏👏Here’s to our French colleagues who went for that kind of special walk before we did. 🇫🇷 And good luck to @astro_anil too! #Epsilon #SophieAdenot #ESA #astronaute @esa @ESA_fr @nasa @Space_Station
- Oct 8, 20264.5x their median
L’équipe de France du spatial est de nouveau au complet… sur Terre ! 🇫🇷🌍 Près de huit mois à bord de l’ISS, de la recherche, encore de la recherche et trois sorties dans l’espace : @Soph_astro revient avec quelques histoires à raconter ! Bravo pour cette première mission impressionnante, et bravo aux équipes au sol qui ont rendu tout ça possible. Heureux de se retrouver et de pouvoir en parler de vive voix ! 🚀 #sophieadenot #ESA #epsilon @esa @ESA_fr
- Aug 13, 20263.6x their median
🌒📸Spectacle inoubliable hier soir pour ceux qui avaient la chance de se trouver dans l’alignement des astres ! Pour les autres, voici quelques-unes des plus belles photos de l’éclipse. #eclipse #soleil #sun Plus de photos ici : https://t.co/TeeGytLaQe Et ici : https://t.co/VZlcoVTVYP 1- Paul Mortz 2- @pixhartmann @Reuters 3- @AJamesMcCarthy
- Jun 17, 20264.1x their median
Le plus lourd lancement jamais réalisé par une Ariane 6 avec ses nouveaux boosters. Une belle réussite et une nouvelle démonstration de ce que l’Europe est capable d’accomplir lorsqu’elle unit ses talents, ses compétences et ses ambitions. Bravo à toutes les équipes. 🚀🇪🇺 #Ariane6 #VA269 @esa @ESA_fr @CNES @ArianeGroup @Arianespace @EuropeSpacePort
- Jun 20, 20263.5x their median
Astuce : le très bon site https://t.co/89VoFjNlre fonctionne aussi pour ceux qui cherchent de l’ombre ! https://t.co/tWrLp3ujCB
- Jul 16, 20262.6x their median
🎬 Me faire clasher par Matt Damon 😂, c’était pas sur ma bucket list en 2026, mais allez on prend 😅, après tout il est allé sur Mars 🚀🔴 et pas moi. Mais après le soldat Ryan, Interstellar, seul sur Mars et maintenant l’Odyssee, ça fait quand même pas mal de centaines de millions de dollars dépensés par Hollywood 🎥pour le ramener à la maison 🏠, il faudrait peut-etre qu’il arrête de sortir !! 🤣 https://t.co/6PYFXi7U2a #TheOdyssey #MattDamon #GQ #ChristopherNolan @GQMagazine @GQ_France
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
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 629 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.047%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 58% of 20,444 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 39K times each, and 1.60% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.96% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 15% are part of a thread and 62% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.7K interactions, about 14x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #pegase26, #wallpaperwednesday.
- What is Thomas Pesquet's engagement rate on X?
- Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) has an engagement rate of 0.047%, based on the median interactions across 13 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,332,057 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.047%, Thomas Pesquet sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,798 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 @Thom_astro have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 58% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @Thom_astro post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.57 posts per day across the measured window.