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Turbine Traveller engagement report

@Turbinetraveler - 87K followers on X

Measured over 42 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.736%
of 87K followers
Per impression
1.15%
55K views on a typical post
Reach
63.9%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
638
interactions (median)
Saved
0.159%
88 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2/day
active 53% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Sunday

A typical post picks up 638 interactions against 87K followers, an engagement rate of 0.736%. Measured over 42 original posts, its engagement rate beats 84% of 3,863 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 55K times each, and 1.15% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 63.9% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 42 posts sampled, 98% carry an image or video and 21% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 40x its own typical post.

Measured over 42 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Turbine Traveller's engagement rate beats 84% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,863 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 4 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 0.736%, Turbine Traveller sits above the 75th percentile of the 37,350 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the top 25% band, which runs 0.437% to 2.10%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.437%
p902.10%
p99159.9%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,350 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,576 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 percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.437%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile159.9%

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 17:00 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: 17:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 17:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%52K
01:00 UTC-2%53K
02:00 UTC-3%51K
03:00 UTC-4%55K
04:00 UTC-6%44K
05:00 UTC-4%43K
06:00 UTC-4%49K
07:00 UTC-5%53K
08:00 UTC-4%62K
09:00 UTC-3%71K
10:00 UTC-2%74K
11:00 UTC-3%80K
12:00 UTC-2%88K
13:00 UTC-2%97K
14:00 UTC-4%100K
15:00 UTC-2%103K
16:00 UTC-3%100K
17:00 UTC-3%93K
18:00 UTC-2%87K
19:00 UTC-2%82K
20:00 UTC-1%76K
21:00 UTC-1%67K
22:00 UTC-1%58K
23:00 UTC-1%52K
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 5%Busiest day: Sunday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%235K
Monday0%296K
Tuesday-3%292K
Wednesday-1%254K
Thursday-2%248K
Friday-3%256K
Saturday+3%230K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 30, 202640x their median

    Chomi, we’re doing it again at my house next Saturday neh, @Fly_Airlink? 😉💚💛

    20K4.7K557515715K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 202627x their median

    WATCH: The moment a firefighting Huey helicopter performs an autorotation landing in Canada The helicopter suffered a mechanical failure, and its bucket hook became jammed, preventing the pilot from releasing the bucket. Despite the added complication, the pilot executed a remarkably smooth emergency landing. Brilliant work by the crew. Those pilots are incredibly skilled. Incident from 8/14/26. 📹: rocbolt

    15K1.2K301161937K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 202622x their median

    What a shot! Airlink E190 vibrant green livery over DHL Stadium, Cape Town yesterday. 📸: Warren Kirkland https://t.co/JMza9XdIxX

    13K1.4K5257226K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202618x their median

    Today's flyover in Cape Town wasn't the first time, South Africa has had a history of delivering some truly unforgettable low passes. Here are some of the best from the past. https://t.co/hGeL9lQFd3

    8.8K2.1K118234964K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202616x their median

    WATCH: This angle says it all: there was no margin for error here. https://t.co/t6zougVmXP

    9.0K9931651841.7M viewsView on X
  • Aug 16, 20267.9x their median

    WATCH: Here is yesterday’s take-off of Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787-9 (VN-A867), flight VN34 to Hanoi, from Munich Airport’s Runway 26L. At the 0:57 timestamp, you can see the sudden jolt from the cabin as the tailstrike occurred, with the aircraft subsequently overrunning the runway.

    4.2K4672221101.9M viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20267.2x their median

    That helicopter almost rolled over — but the pilot said, “Not today.” Engine failure in a helicopter doesn’t always lead to disaster. https://t.co/dv8c7sTAfZ

    4.2K2558429393K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20264.6x their median

    A passenger aboard a Virgin Atlantic A350 from London Heathrow to Atlanta captured another beautiful red A350 flying to Orlando MCO over the Atlantic. 📹: Crustysock8274 https://t.co/X7RUh7luPV

    2.7K1971915149K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20263.8x their median

    British Airways crew arriving from Heathrow noticed something the Delta pilots heading to LAX couldn’t see and got them sent back to the gate at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. “We just noticed a plastic bag was sucked through your right-hand engine.” Great call from the BA crew, but that’s a nice trick for sneaking into the queue. 📹: theaviationcircle

    2.3K105185422K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 20262.4x their median

    He randomly has an expensive Rolls-Royce RB211 engine from L-1011 TriStar sitting in his backyard! Goes ahead and cranks it up, wonder what the neighbours think. 📹: gasturbine101 https://t.co/Xs7wkmB2By

    1.3K146602978K 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 638 interactions against 87K followers, an engagement rate of 0.736%. Measured over 42 original posts, its engagement rate beats 84% of 3,863 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 55K times each, and 1.15% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 63.9% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 42 posts sampled, 98% carry an image or video and 21% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 40x its own typical post.

What is Turbine Traveller's engagement rate on X?
Turbine Traveller (@Turbinetraveler) has an engagement rate of 0.736%, based on the median interactions across 42 original posts from the last 30 days against 86,791 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.736%, Turbine Traveller sits above the 75th percentile of the 37,350 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 @Turbinetraveler have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 84% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,863 accounts), which puts it in the top quarter for its size 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 @Turbinetraveler post?
Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.

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