Back to @spacegovuk's profile

UK Space Agency engagement report

@spacegovuk - 226K followers on X

Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.021%
of 226K followers
Per impression
1.45%
3.3K views on a typical post
Reach
1.48%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
48
interactions (median)
Saved
0.075%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.17/day
active 73% of days
Peak time
13:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 48 interactions against 226K followers, an engagement rate of 0.021%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 33% 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 3.3K times each, and 1.45% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.48% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video, 6% are part of a thread and 75% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.7K interactions, about 57x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #bepicolombo, #iac2026, #copernicuseu.

Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #bepicolombo, #iac2026, #copernicuseu.

Compared with accounts its own size

UK Space Agency's engagement rate beats 33% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 53% 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 0.021%, UK Space Agency sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,048 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%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,048 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 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 percentile0.678%
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 13:00 UTC, and Thursday 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: 13:00 UTC.
0003060912151821
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 13:00 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video94% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link75% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 94% 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.
  • 75% 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 285 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

  • Sep 30, 202657x their median

    Inspector Smile is ready for science! 🫡 This is Smile’s first ultraviolet view showing an auroral substorm. With the ultraviolet camera now operational, Smile becomes the first spacecraft since 2008 to capture the full ring of northern lights around the north pole in ultraviolet light. 1/4

    2.2K4054269254K viewsView on X
  • Aug 5, 202628x their median

    On 12 August there will be a partial solar eclipse from the UK. ☀️ 🌑 🌍 Starting at 6.13pm, maximum eclipse will occur at 7.10pm with around 90-96% of the Sun being obscured, and ends at 8.03pm. Read more via @skyatnightmag 👉 https://t.co/wWbCWKzXwd #SolarEclipse2026 https://t.co/SdIRcry3eK

    1.1K212132864K viewsView on X
  • Aug 8, 202621x their median

    On Wednesday, the UK will be treated to a partial solar eclipse. ☀️ 🌑 🌍 Starting at 6:13 pm UK time, maximum eclipse will occur at 7.10pm, with around 90-96% of the Sun being obscured. The eclipse will end at 8:03pm. Be sure to use speciality glasses to safely watch it. 🕶️ https://t.co/Y7NecG6q5K

    84014714641K viewsView on X
  • Sep 8, 202617x their median

    1/ The UK Space Strategy has launched! 🇬🇧🚀🛰️ The strategy outlines our plan to make the UK a competitive space power, backed by over £7.8bn in funding. Read more 👉 https://t.co/LeTAQ9QONT Read the UK Space Strategy 👉 https://t.co/ErIom9VRr8 https://t.co/6qOjxFFJau

    6341253540157K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 20267.6x their median

    UK stargazers: a partial solar eclipse is happening now! If you're watching live, please make sure you're doing so safely! #SolarEclipse2026 https://t.co/AMIX4QRocl

    296653115K viewsView on X
  • Sep 23, 20266.8x their median

    Continued UK support for RFA ONE: we've received €2.7M from the @spacegovuk through the @esa Boost! programme. The funding backs preparations for our first test flight at @SaxaVord_Space and new engine and stage test capabilities in the UK. #RFAONE #ESAboost #UKSpace #NewSpace https://t.co/W9DubJfVmo

    288302619K viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 20265.8x their median

    Ready to catch tomorrow's partial solar eclipse? ☀️ 🌑 🌍 Starting at 6.13pm UK time, maximum eclipse will occur at 7.10pm with around 90-96% of the Sun being obscured. The eclipse will end at 8.03pm. Read more via @skyatnightmag 👇 https://t.co/GuFPJ0dOsB #SolarEclipse2026

    206646111K viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 20264.5x their median

    Some parts of the UK were lucky enough to see the partial solar eclipse at sunset yesterday. 🌇 Were you able to catch it? 🕶️ If so, share your pictures with us! 📷 #SolarEclipse2026 https://t.co/r2jno9iKXv

    152273718.2K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20263.5x their median

    Attention, stargazers! 🔭 There will be a partial lunar eclipse in the early hours of next Friday! ☀️ 🌍 🌒 The eclipse will begin at 3.33am and reach its maximum at 5.12am, when approximately 90% of the Moon will sit within Earth's umbra. https://t.co/OeUMiaBIHQ

    12838219.6K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 20263.5x their median

    How's the weather where you are? 👀 Starting shortly after 6:00 pm today and peaking around 7:00pm, a partial solar eclipse will be visible from the UK. 🌑 ☀️ If you're observing, please make sure you're doing so safely! 🕶️ #SolarEclipse2026 https://t.co/UDtxZd4iWL

    12925668.5K 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

#bepicolombo#iac2026#copernicuseu#esaboost#esajuice

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.

Buy or sell Twitter (X) accounts - escrow-protected

PlayerSells is an escrow marketplace for Twitter (X) accounts. Every deal is protected, with no middleman risk.

Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 48 interactions against 226K followers, an engagement rate of 0.021%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 33% 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 3.3K times each, and 1.45% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.48% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video, 6% are part of a thread and 75% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.7K interactions, about 57x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #bepicolombo, #iac2026, #copernicuseu.

What is UK Space Agency's engagement rate on X?
UK Space Agency (@spacegovuk) has an engagement rate of 0.021%, based on the median interactions across 32 original posts from the last 30 days against 226,042 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.021%, UK Space Agency sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,048 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 @spacegovuk have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 33% 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 @spacegovuk post?
Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.17 posts per day across the measured window.

Keep going