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
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%.
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 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.
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 18, 202622x their median
how many never-ending pasta bowls you gotta eat to earn that drip? https://t.co/ZbqtZhahD7
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Aug 28, 20263.8x their median
It’s happening. BUCKLE UP https://t.co/xyH6Xq6hhH
- 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
- Aug 21, 20263.2x their median
I got an NYC haircut lol https://t.co/OS8ocTHcfN
- Aug 28, 20263.1x their median
We did it https://t.co/ZjIOCSFnk2
- Aug 21, 20263.1x their median
Here are @MaxVelocityWX and I discussing how important it is to never stop chasing https://t.co/tZk30hOd7L
- 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
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
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.