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Reed Timmer, PhD engagement report

@ReedTimmerUSA - 879K followers on X

Measured over 73 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.081%
of 879K followers
Per impression
1.68%
42K views on a typical post
Reach
4.80%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
710
interactions (median)
Saved
0.038%
16 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.53/day
active 67% of days
Peak time
14:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 710 interactions against 879K followers, an engagement rate of 0.081%. Measured over 73 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% 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 42K times each, and 1.68% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.80% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 73 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 5% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 15K interactions, about 22x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #tornado, #dominator, #cowx.

Measured over 73 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026. Recurring tags: #tornado, #dominator, #cowx.

Compared with accounts its own size

Reed Timmer, PhD's engagement rate beats 70% 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 65% 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 0.081%, Reed Timmer, PhD sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.434%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.434%
p902.10%
p99160.7%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,521 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,166 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 percentile0.434%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.7%

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 14:00 UTC, and Friday 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: 14:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 14:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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
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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%230K
Monday0%286K
Tuesday-2%276K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%244K
Friday-3%252K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 18, 202622x their median

    how many never-ending pasta bowls you gotta eat to earn that drip? https://t.co/ZbqtZhahD7

    14K86511190430K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20267.8x their median

    I believe this deadly mega flash flood / debris flow in Nepal was caused by a glacier break and instantaneous massive flood of mass down the river gorge https://t.co/W6MyL24Bnt

    4.8K54318158276K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20266.4x their median

    This powerful tornado in France exhibited a helical dynamic pipe above ground not dissimilar from the Greenfield, Iowa tornado in 2024 https://t.co/it67D0KXzP

    4.1K3767320147K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20264.8x their median

    Powerful tornado with massive clear slot in France today ahead of a potent mid-latitude cyclone https://t.co/a6FMDQx49B

    2.9K3964921113K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20263.8x their median

    It’s happening. BUCKLE UP https://t.co/xyH6Xq6hhH

    2.4K198621094K viewsView on X
  • Aug 16, 20263.3x their median

    We chased a #tornado warned supercell that caused flooding and sounded the sirens in the Columbus, Ohio area https://t.co/nAPeb6nQN6

    2.2K1692818131K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20263.2x their median

    I got an NYC haircut lol https://t.co/OS8ocTHcfN

    2.0K51165354K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20263.1x their median

    We did it https://t.co/ZjIOCSFnk2

    2.0K11362236K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20263.1x their median

    Here are @MaxVelocityWX and I discussing how important it is to never stop chasing https://t.co/tZk30hOd7L

    2.1K8347146K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20263.0x their median

    I’m so proud of Reed Timmer and his team for coming out with the “Never Stop Chasing” movie, which I am thankful to be apart of the premiere here in New York City! You can watch the movie in theaters across the country this month! #ad https://t.co/ObKEKAhA9O

    2.0K83357115K 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

#tornado#dominator#cowx#michigan100#neverstopchasing

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 710 interactions against 879K followers, an engagement rate of 0.081%. Measured over 73 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% 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 42K times each, and 1.68% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.80% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 73 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 5% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 15K interactions, about 22x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #tornado, #dominator, #cowx.

What is Reed Timmer, PhD's engagement rate on X?
Reed Timmer, PhD (@ReedTimmerUSA) has an engagement rate of 0.081%, based on the median interactions across 73 original posts from the last 30 days against 879,031 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.081%, Reed Timmer, PhD sits above the 50th 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 @ReedTimmerUSA have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 70% 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 @ReedTimmerUSA post?
Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.53 posts per day across the measured window.

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