Physics & Astronomy Zone engagement report
@zone_astronomy - 307K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 5, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 104 interactions against 307K followers, an engagement rate of 0.034%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 43% of 6,874 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 9.8K times each, and 1.07% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.20% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.0K interactions, about 58x its own typical post.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 5, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Physics & Astronomy Zone's engagement rate beats 43% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 48% 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 0.034%, Physics & Astronomy Zone sits above the 25th percentile of the 66,128 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.016% to 0.1%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.016% |
| 50th percentile | 0.1% |
| 75th percentile | 0.499% |
| 90th percentile | 2.09% |
| 99th percentile | 119.9% |
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 06:00 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 | 3% 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.
- 3% 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 280 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 4, 202658x their median
The Helical Truth: Chasing the Sun at 220 km/s Updated version Discover the true shape of planetary trajectories as our Solar System travels at ~220 km/s through the Milky Way. This interactive 3D simulation moves beyond the basic heliocentric model to visualize the real helical motion of the planets. #SolarSystem #Astrophysics
- Sep 1, 20269.9x their median
Physics always incredible https://t.co/YZR9MsMaz9
- Sep 1, 20266.5x their median
After traveling 9 years and covering 3 billion miles, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got this shot. The icy mountains of Pluto. https://t.co/G3wCbHd1Nn
- Sep 3, 20264.0x their median
Even at the speed of light, the universe is unimaginably vast. Light travels at an incredible 299,792 kilometers per second, yet reaching our nearest major neighboring galaxy, Andromeda, would take roughly 2.5 million years at the speed of light. 🚀✨ This mind-blowing distance reminds us just how enormous the cosmos truly is. The stars we see, the galaxies beyond our own, and the vast empty space between them exist on a scale almost impossible for the human mind to imagine. 🌠 Space isn’t just big it’s beyond imagination. What do you think humanity will discover beyond our galaxy? 👇✨ #
- Sep 3, 20263.6x their median
A Ukrainian developer created a black hole in his terminal to force himself to take breaks. The more you work nonstop, the more it grows and distorts your code with its gravitational lens. You rest, and it shrinks. https://t.co/xzJ5FthZjz
- Sep 3, 20263.5x their median
🌍 Earth like you’ve never seen it before stunning 4K footage from space! ✨ https://t.co/tE1lB4h80k
- Sep 2, 20263.4x their median
digital sundial https://t.co/TSSm1YC896
- Sep 2, 20263.3x their median
The ability to sense frequency energy can be enhanced through practice, and according to sound therapy principles, the 852Hz Solfeggio tone helps balance overthinking by awakening intuition. https://t.co/bHcKsXiptm
- Sep 2, 20262.9x their median
Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind. [🎞️ NASA] https://t.co/H3IW6sJrXm
- Sep 4, 20262.6x their median
Physics is always incredible https://t.co/2ZnqSIkZnz
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 104 interactions against 307K followers, an engagement rate of 0.034%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 43% of 6,874 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 9.8K times each, and 1.07% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.20% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.0K interactions, about 58x its own typical post.
- What is Physics & Astronomy Zone's engagement rate on X?
- Physics & Astronomy Zone (@zone_astronomy) has an engagement rate of 0.034%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 306,787 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.034%, Physics & Astronomy Zone sits above the 25th percentile of the 66,128 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 @zone_astronomy have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 43% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 @zone_astronomy post?
- Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.