NASA JPL engagement report
@NASAJPL - 3.7M followers on X
Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 604 interactions against 3.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 54% 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 71K times each, and 0.853% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.90% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 87% carry an image or video, 20% are part of a thread and 53% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 35K interactions, about 58x its own typical post.
Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
NASA JPL's engagement rate beats 54% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 52% 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 0.016%, NASA JPL sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,378 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 | 0.432% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 161.0% |
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 20:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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
- Jun 9, 202658x their median
Introducing Artemis III. Four astronauts. Three launches. Two dockings. One splashdown. In 2027, the Artemis III mission will practice docking the Orion spacecraft with two lunar landers in low Earth orbit — the capability we need to return humanity to the Moon’s surface. https://t.co/8uhMUxuuWX
- Jul 6, 202625x their median
The International Space Station orbited over Los Angeles on July 4th as America marked 250 years of independence with a burst of fireworks lighting up the city below — a celebration so bright it reached all the way to space! https://t.co/SMCXTFYRjD
- Jun 4, 202623x their median
Since arriving at its destination five years ago, our Perseverance Mars rover has collected data that hints at a history of past life on the Red Planet. Catch up on Percy’s biggest discoveries in this week’s episode of our Curious Universe podcast: https://t.co/J5dh8FhHjw https://t.co/JfchYJscsY
- Jun 30, 202612x their median
We're thinking about it. https://t.co/oQosHFPV10
- Aug 5, 20268.1x their median
In its 14 years on Mars, the Curiosity rover has taken more than 700,000 images, but this one is special – because it was one of the first. Happy landiversary, Curiosity! https://t.co/shl2n30dQg
- Jun 25, 20265.6x their median
Photo finish! 🏁📸 On June 14, Perseverance completed a Martian “marathon” by surpassing 26.2 miles (42.195 kilometers) of travel. The day before, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped this view of the rover and its tracks from space. https://t.co/ju3nRTAGfm
- Jun 17, 20264.6x their median
It’s a Martian marathon! NASA's Perseverance Rover has surpassed a total distance of 26.2 miles (42.195 kilometers) of travel on the Red Planet. It crossed the milestone while exploring intriguing ancient terrain to the west of Jezero Crater. https://t.co/kWd7iSImUM
- Jul 20, 20264.5x their median
On July 20, 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 lander broke ground on 50 years of Mars surface exploration. From the first landing, to rovers crossing the desert, to helicopter flights, we’ve been digging into the secrets of Mars ever since. https://t.co/gb5V7LQsuR
- May 27, 20263.8x their median
Four JPL-built propulsive drones – known as MoonFall – will survey the lunar surface at potential @NASAArtemis landing sites in unprecedented detail. The mission is part of the initial phase of the @NASAMoonBase initiative. Learn more: https://t.co/2NJXRlgOoW https://t.co/ygATe3rzVA
- Jul 20, 20263.4x their median
What was once only visible from a distance, we could now reach out and grasp… Throughout history, humanity dreamed of Mars – but it was never within reach. That changed 50 years ago when NASA's Viking 1 lander touched down on the surface of the Red Planet on July 20, 1976. https://t.co/wB1XQeoOVf
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 604 interactions against 3.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 54% 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 71K times each, and 0.853% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.90% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 87% carry an image or video, 20% are part of a thread and 53% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 35K interactions, about 58x its own typical post.
- What is NASA JPL's engagement rate on X?
- NASA JPL (@NASAJPL) has an engagement rate of 0.016%, based on the median interactions across 15 original posts from the last 30 days against 3,717,076 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.016%, NASA JPL sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,378 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 @NASAJPL have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 54% 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 @NASAJPL post?
- Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.03 posts per day across the measured window.