Virgin Galactic engagement report
@virgingalactic - 474K followers on X
Measured over 6 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 6 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 396 interactions against 474K followers, an engagement rate of 0.084%. Posts are seen about 23K times each, and 1.76% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.76% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.27 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 6 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.6K interactions, about 4.1x its own typical post. Only 6 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 6 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.084%, Virgin Galactic sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,956 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 18:00 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.
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 | 33% 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.
- 33% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 320 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
- Apr 30, 20264.1x their median
Virgin Galactic has reached a new production milestone, successfully towing its latest SpaceShip from the assembly hangar to the test and launch hangar. The vehicle will undergo final systems integration and ground testing. The next-generation SpaceShips are being built at our SpaceShip factory in Mesa, Arizona.
- May 27, 20263.2x their median
VSS Unity completed a successful glide flight today above @Spaceport_NM. Pilots, ground crew, and Mission Control all running live operations, building the rhythm our new spaceship program demands → https://t.co/eCNl1tR5fo https://t.co/ANewKO1X97
- Jan 20, 20262.4x their median
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025-2026 @NASA TechRise Student Challenge! The 60 teams of 6-12 graders from across the U.S. will launch their science and technology experiments on a @virgingalactic or @worldviewspace vehicle this summer: https://t.co/jmYDGhMUvg https://t.co/ox2x9v9WWl
- Oct 8, 20252.2x their median
How does Virgin Galactic’s new spaceship transform itself three different ways during flight? See the one-of-a-kind Feather system— We Build Spaceships, Episode 6, now playing link in bio. #VirginGalactic #Space https://t.co/j6ABB9HHhH
- Sep 16, 20262.0x their median
VSS Unity completed its 34th flight today, the second in our Unity glide series preparing pilots and ops teams for the new spaceship flight test program. CJ Sturckow and Andy Edgell flew Unity; Dan Alix and Jameel Janjua flew VMS Eve. More on the glide series here → https://t.co/NLRoZKSUzd
- May 28, 20261.8x their median
Recap: VSS Unity completed a successful glide flight today at Spaceport America. Released. Glided. Landed. Michael Masucci and Dan Alix flew VSS Unity. Nicola Pecile, and Jameel Janjua, flew VMS Eve. https://t.co/04KBpnrshn
- Aug 27, 20254.5x their median
VMS Eve soars again! 🚀 Our launch vehicle is back in the skies, completing a functional check flight that paves the way for spaceflight in 2026! https://t.co/vrUBfugHuv
- Feb 11, 20261.8x their median
From sleek carbon composite skins to precision-fastened pressure bulkheads and ring frames, the fuselage takes shape. This is the backbone of our next-gen spaceship. Dive into the latest episode of We Build SpaceShips. https://t.co/V0qVhGKrBd
- Oct 28, 20251.8x their median
“Without avionics, the spaceship doesn’t do very much. It’s the nervous system of the vehicle.” Behind every Virgin Galactic flight lies a symphony of sensors, wiring, and data, transforming thousands of signals into information our pilots can trust. Watch how avionics brings our spacecraft to life in episode 7 of We Build SpaceShips.
- Sep 23, 20261.6x their median
Two vehicles, one mission, side by side in Mesa for the first time. This is what progress looks like. Stay tuned for a closer look at the precision engineering behind aligning and mating our vehicles together. https://t.co/q8eT1RDc1k
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 396 interactions against 474K followers, an engagement rate of 0.084%. Posts are seen about 23K times each, and 1.76% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.76% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.27 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 6 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.6K interactions, about 4.1x its own typical post. Only 6 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 Virgin Galactic's engagement rate on X?
- Virgin Galactic (@virgingalactic) has an engagement rate of 0.084%, based on the median interactions across 6 original posts from the last 30 days against 473,939 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.084%, Virgin Galactic sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,956 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 @virgingalactic have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @virgingalactic post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.27 posts per day across the measured window.