NASA Goddard engagement report
@NASAGoddard - 933K followers on X
Measured over 20 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 342 interactions against 933K followers, an engagement rate of 0.037%. Measured over 20 original posts, its engagement rate beats 55% of 3,739 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 19K times each, and 1.80% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.04% 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 67% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 20 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 40% are part of a thread and 55% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 77K interactions, about 226x its own typical post.
Measured over 20 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
NASA Goddard's engagement rate beats 55% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 67% 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 0.037%, NASA Goddard sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 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 | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 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% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 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% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 25, 2026226x their median
A stellar Coat of Many Colors for Dolly Parton, forever among the stars 💗 https://t.co/5CQi1svgqM
- Aug 26, 20268.2x their median
Happy Birthday, Katherine Johnson — "human computer" and namesake of @NASA's Independent Verification & Validation Facility! Katherine gave critical support to some early space travel, even calculating the trajectory of Alan Shepard’s 1961 flight by hand. https://t.co/aeSmQ3nNLm https://t.co/WfFGx7Zrds
- Aug 11, 20263.8x their median
The Eagle Nebula for Jackie the eagle ❤️ https://t.co/ApECNrE4gB
- Aug 12, 20263.3x their median
Double the fun ☀️🌠 Both a total solar eclipse and the Perseids meteor shower will be visible from the ground today. No telescope needed! See how you can view these wondrous sights ⬇️ https://t.co/SNnxUolXte
- Aug 19, 20263.0x their median
NASA and Katalyst Space have determined that Katalyst’s LINK spacecraft will not capture or boost our Swift observatory to a higher altitude to extend its science mission, due to an ongoing attitude control issue with the spacecraft. However, LINK will still attempt to conduct rendezvous and proximity operations with Swift, to demonstrate key capabilities for the future of space exploration. More: https://t.co/RV9QOBoRVL
- Aug 11, 20262.3x their median
Iceland: where Earth joy and Moon joy collide 🌎🤝🌕 Astronauts and mission support teams recently trained in Iceland’s volcanic terrain, one of the best Earth analogs for the Moon. From geology observations to sampling and navigation, they built skills for future Artemis missions.
- Aug 27, 20262.2x their median
The Moon's blushing from all the attention! 😊 After taking center stage during the total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, the Moon will turn red tonight in a partial lunar eclipse. https://t.co/o3kKZLcUhG
- Jul 28, 20262.1x their median
LINK, the robotic spacecraft from Katalyst Space designed to boost our Swift mission’s orbit, experienced issues with attitude control over the weekend, causing the spacecraft to spin and resulting in sporadic communications. The team is working to stop LINK’s spin over the next few days and then will update LINK’s guidance, navigation, and control to accommodate the spacecraft’s new configuration. Learn more: https://t.co/DBnBfRSm01
- Aug 21, 20261.9x their median
Scientists Study Solar Storms ☀️ Solar wind can impact satellites, communications, and navigation signals. Scientists previously thought there was a limit to how intensely technology responds to the storms. A new study found there isn’t an upper limit. https://t.co/wYkMnhrR2i https://t.co/QSFaYO2903
- Aug 10, 2026
Welcome to the newest members of the Goddard crew! We've just sworn in 49 new civil servants at NASA's Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility in West Virginia, hired as part of @NASAAdmin's directive to strengthen @NASA's technical core competencies. https://t.co/vPYvWZAgnc
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 342 interactions against 933K followers, an engagement rate of 0.037%. Measured over 20 original posts, its engagement rate beats 55% of 3,739 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 19K times each, and 1.80% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.04% 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 67% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 20 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 40% are part of a thread and 55% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 77K interactions, about 226x its own typical post.
- What is NASA Goddard's engagement rate on X?
- NASA Goddard (@NASAGoddard) has an engagement rate of 0.037%, based on the median interactions across 20 original posts from the last 30 days against 932,525 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.037%, NASA Goddard sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 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 @NASAGoddard have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 55% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @NASAGoddard post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.2 posts per day across the measured window.