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NASA Universe engagement report

@NASAUniverse - 1.1M followers on X

Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.046%
of 1.1M followers
Per impression
2.08%
25K views on a typical post
Reach
2.24%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
519
interactions (median)
Saved
0.136%
34 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.43/day
active 70% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 519 interactions against 1.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.046%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 60% 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 25K times each, and 2.08% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.24% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 95% carry an image or video, 11% are part of a thread and 58% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.8K interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #otd, #mondaymotivation, #nationallighthouseday.

Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #otd, #mondaymotivation, #nationallighthouseday.

Compared with accounts its own size

NASA Universe's engagement rate beats 60% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 71% 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 0.046%, NASA Universe 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 17:00 UTC, and Monday 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: 17:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 17:00 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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Monday
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

  • Aug 29, 202619x their median

    Time to explore the cosmos! 🔭 @NASARoman is ready to lift off from @NASAKennedy at 7:26am ET (1126 UTC) on Aug. 30. Join us here for our live coverage beginning at 6:20am ET (1020 UTC). https://t.co/H22b3CCQKR

    8.3K1.2K2241051.1M viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 20262.4x their median

    If a neutron star or small black hole wanders too close to a supermassive black hole, it can be set into a bizarre (and fun-looking) dance that traces a complex pattern around the black hole. #MondayMotivation https://t.co/ROA56bwSge

    1.1K165331049K viewsView on X
  • Aug 10, 20262.3x their median

    Give your classroom, locker, or dorm room a cosmic makeover! AstroPix, from NASA's Universe of Learning project, offers access to the public image galleries of @NASA telescopes and other ground- and space-based observatories. Start your search here: https://t.co/joLvTKuv5L https://t.co/LkGCkRcN5d

    1.0K15832532K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20262.3x their median

    The universe is full of weird juxtapositions. This colorful image, for example, shows sites of new star formation AND a shattered star. The upper portion is full of newly forming stars while the stellar leftovers are the small blue blob in the lower left. #MondayMotivation https://t.co/zWFqPKfWfG

    1.0K17124833K viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 20262.1x their median

    Are we alone? @NASARoman is expected to discover and study thousands of distant worlds within our galaxy and directly image planets with unprecedented detail. Its coronagraph will block the glare from host stars but allow the light from dimmer, orbiting planets to filter through. https://t.co/OS9foQsvCz

    93513626848K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20261.6x their median

    Our newest exoplanet explorer has started its science mission! Launched earlier this year, Pandora has begun observing worlds beyond our solar system and the stars they orbit. It will help us learn about the atmospheres of at least 20 exoplanets. More: https://t.co/8QIX06T7fz https://t.co/tysfhZcqvv

    7011304529K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20261.5x their median

    Our Swift observatory is back in its science era. Two of its telescopes resumed operation this week, and the team hopes to have the third science instrument back online soon. After the scaling back of a commercial mission that would have boosted the sinking spacecraft’s altitude, Swift is taking advantage of this time for data collection. More: https://t.co/1ib97WAMnn

    6688914836K viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 2026

    Katalyst Space successfully uploaded a flight software update designed to maintain the stability of their LINK robotic spacecraft. This work has prepared LINK to continue its approach toward our Swift observatory, performing a series of burns and maneuvers in the coming days to align LINK’s orbit with Swift, before attempting to capture and raise Swift to a higher orbital altitude. Learn more: https://t.co/PMJV4T1QAa

    42680161034K viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 2026

    Ready to solve a cosmic mystery? Join Detective Eagle Quark in our Space Forensics interactive online game as he investigates why stars are exploding … and learn some astronomy along the way! Start your 8-bit adventure: https://t.co/TW3xyvuZEO https://t.co/PEKRvkPDa6

    42080181033K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 2026

    The stellar remnant known as pulsar J0002 is hurtling through space at nearly 2.5 million miles per hour away from the expanding debris of the supernova that created it. It's traveling so fast that it will eventually leave our galaxy. #MondayMotivation https://t.co/sBFwJHvx1b

    4356314714K 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.

Recurring topics

#otd#mondaymotivation#nationallighthouseday#nationalsmoresday#spaceapps

The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 519 interactions against 1.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.046%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 60% 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 25K times each, and 2.08% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.24% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 95% carry an image or video, 11% are part of a thread and 58% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.8K interactions, about 19x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #otd, #mondaymotivation, #nationallighthouseday.

What is NASA Universe's engagement rate on X?
NASA Universe (@NASAUniverse) has an engagement rate of 0.046%, based on the median interactions across 19 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,118,886 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.046%, NASA Universe 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 @NASAUniverse have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 60% 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 @NASAUniverse post?
Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.43 posts per day across the measured window.

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