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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Jul 24, 2026136x their median
Recently, I keep thinking about Terminator when Sarah Connor was thrown into a mental asylum for sabotaging AI data centers owned by Skynet.
- Aug 12, 202665x their median
Totality seen from 36,000 feet. https://t.co/vOBmxzBoTb
- 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
- 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.
- Jul 30, 202630x their median
This is a Rocky appreciation post. That’s it. Love for Rocky. https://t.co/brWQAfxAvd
- 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.
- Aug 2, 202618x their median
What Night Sky on Mars may look like. https://t.co/mklLz3UYEj
- 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.
- Jul 25, 202616x their median
Sydney tower. 73 km's away. https://t.co/1JCbG0S5vo
- 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.
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.