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Curiosity engagement report

@MAstronomers - 1.5M followers on X

Measured over 33 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.023%
of 1.5M followers
Per impression
0.592%
59K views on a typical post
Reach
3.85%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
351
interactions (median)
Saved
0.044%
26 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.27/day
active 77% of days
Peak time
21:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 351 interactions against 1.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.023%. Measured over 33 original posts, its engagement rate beats 59% of 3,774 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 59K times each, and 0.592% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.85% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 33 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 48K interactions, about 136x its own typical post.

Measured over 33 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Curiosity's engagement rate beats 59% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 43% 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 0.023%, Curiosity sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.433%
p902.10%
p99160.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,654 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,977 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 percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.433%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.5%

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 21:00 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: 21:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 21:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
02:00 UTC-3%50K
03:00 UTC-4%53K
04:00 UTC-6%43K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%48K
07:00 UTC-5%52K
08:00 UTC-4%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
10:00 UTC-2%72K
11:00 UTC-3%78K
12:00 UTC-2%86K
13:00 UTC-2%94K
14:00 UTC-4%97K
15:00 UTC-2%101K
16:00 UTC-3%98K
17:00 UTC-2%91K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-1%80K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-1%57K
23:00 UTC-2%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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Thursday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%231K
Monday0%288K
Tuesday-2%278K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%245K
Friday-3%253K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

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  • Aug 12, 202665x their median

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  • Aug 8, 202652x their median

    Mars, sol 1932 captured by NASA's nuclear-powered rover. This is 140 million miles away from us! https://t.co/7Ip97Q3qog

    16K1.8K7261481.4M viewsView on X
  • Jul 28, 202635x their median

    Remember how fast the Earth started to heal when we were all locked up during Covid? All we have to do is stop and we've already shown we can.

    11K92520324321K viewsView on X
  • Jul 30, 202630x their median

    This is a Rocky appreciation post. That’s it. Love for Rocky. https://t.co/brWQAfxAvd

    9.8K6497527161K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 202621x their median

    So, just heard that a year 6 child has a theory that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he’d created, so he made documentaries to show off.

    7.0K4735436182K viewsView on X
  • Aug 2, 202618x their median

    What Night Sky on Mars may look like. https://t.co/mklLz3UYEj

    5.6K64015136164K viewsView on X
  • Jul 29, 202616x their median

    Scotland just lost 600 hectares of an ancient forest that has stood since the ice sheets melted 9,000 years ago. The Cairngorms wildfire is still burning after 12 days. Yes, this is happening right now.

    4.4K1.2K12827144K viewsView on X
  • Jul 25, 202616x their median

    Sydney tower. 73 km's away. https://t.co/1JCbG0S5vo

    4.9K2543391094.0M viewsView on X
  • Aug 5, 202616x their median

    On August 2, 1971, near the end of their final excursion on the Moon, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin placed a memorial plaque on the lunar surface in honour of 14 deceased astronauts and cosmonauts. Beside it, they placed a small aluminium sculpture known as the Fallen Astronaut. The plaque bears the names of Charles Bassett II, Pavel Belyayev, Roger Chaffee, Georgi Dobrovolski, Theodore Freeman, Yuri Gagarin, Edward Givens Jr., Virgil Grissom, Vladimir Komarov, Viktor Patsayev, Elliot See Jr., Vladislav Volkov, Edward White II and Clifton Williams Jr.

    4.7K57219823228K 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 351 interactions against 1.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.023%. Measured over 33 original posts, its engagement rate beats 59% of 3,774 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 59K times each, and 0.592% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.85% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 33 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 48K interactions, about 136x its own typical post.

What is Curiosity's engagement rate on X?
Curiosity (@MAstronomers) has an engagement rate of 0.023%, based on the median interactions across 33 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,538,502 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.023%, Curiosity sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,654 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 @MAstronomers have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 59% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @MAstronomers post?
Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.27 posts per day across the measured window.

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