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Neil deGrasse Tyson engagement report

@neiltyson - 14M followers on X

Measured over 2 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.005%
of 14M followers
Per impression
0.3%
227K views on a typical post
Reach
1.64%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
680
interactions (median)
Saved
0.019%
43 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.07/day
active 7% of days
Peak time
00:00 UTC
Monday

Early reading. We have captured 2 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.

A typical post picks up 680 interactions against 14M followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Posts are seen about 227K times each, and 0.3% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.64% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.07 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 2 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 50% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 37K interactions, about 113x its own typical post. Only 2 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

Measured over 2 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.005%, Neil deGrasse Tyson sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,491 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 204,491 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,891 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 00:00 UTC, and Monday 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: 00:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 00:00 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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Monday
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 193 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

  • Jun 12, 2026113x their median

    If I were ever abducted by Aliens, the first thing I’d ask is whether they came from a planet where people also deny science.

    28K1.9K6.4K7122.3M viewsView on X
  • Jun 14, 2026101x their median

    What I looked like the last time the @NYKnicks won a championship. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ [Mirror-selfie. Via Pentax SP500. 55mm SMC Takumar F2.0 Lens. Kodacolor 200 film] https://t.co/q560oNXvJb

    31K1.9K39371499K viewsView on X
  • May 25, 202632x their median

    Freedom isn't free. https://t.co/OQHxA3jF0L

    17K8061.4K3081.2M viewsView on X
  • May 4, 202620x their median

    This checks out... https://t.co/7qBCbq7CNz

    15K2.3K28176410K viewsView on X
  • Jul 24, 202648x their median

    Saw The Odyssey in IMAX 70mm As many know, I value cinematic accuracy. Some complain about its “Woke” casting. But Christopher Nolan’s choice to have actors speak English rather than authentic Ancient Greek in original dactylic hexameter is what I found to be most incredulous. https://t.co/5qAslzmgfg

    14K931872136869K viewsView on X
  • Apr 2, 202613x their median

    Godspeed Artemis II April 1, 2026 -- 18:35 EDT https://t.co/8fyFpexAtn

    11K70822921222K viewsView on X
  • Jun 13, 202634x their median

    Not that anybody asked, but the last time the @NYKnicks won a championship, the planet Neptune had not yet completed one orbit around the Sun since its discovery in 1846. https://t.co/j1Ncq6OiXe

    10K73115531241K viewsView on X
  • Jul 3, 202634x their median

    July 4, 2026 Happy 250th Birthday, America. [Deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air, & Space Museum, NYC July 4, 2012] https://t.co/sveJlfR2No

    10K50731027274K viewsView on X
  • Jun 10, 202628x their median

    Not that anybody asked, but the last time the @NYKnicks won a championship, the Periodic Table had 11-percent fewer Elements. https://t.co/arKpeNbkiL

    7.9K99018861358K viewsView on X
  • Jun 14, 202625x their median

    Not that anybody asked, but in the time that has elapsed since the @NYKnicks last won a championship, we’ve discovered eight new Subatomic Particles. J-Psi Meson / Tau Lepton / Bottom Quark / Gluon / W-Z Boson / Top Quark / Tau Neutrino / Higgs Boson

    7.7K57115540312K 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 680 interactions against 14M followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Posts are seen about 227K times each, and 0.3% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.64% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.07 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 2 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 50% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 37K interactions, about 113x its own typical post. Only 2 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

What is Neil deGrasse Tyson's engagement rate on X?
Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) has an engagement rate of 0.005%, based on the median interactions across 2 original posts from the last 30 days against 13,798,462 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.005%, Neil deGrasse Tyson sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,491 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 @neiltyson have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @neiltyson post?
Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.07 posts per day across the measured window.

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