Thomas Pesquet engagement report
@Thom_astro - 1.3M followers on X
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 540 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.04%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 57% of 3,791 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 51K times each, and 1.05% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.85% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.83 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 31% are part of a thread and 62% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.7K interactions, about 16x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #pam6, #spacestation, #astronaut.
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #pam6, #spacestation, #astronaut.
Compared with accounts its own size
Thomas Pesquet's engagement rate beats 57% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 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 0.04%, Thomas Pesquet sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,759 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 | 160.4% |
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 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 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% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 98K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
Best tweets
- Jul 26, 202616x their median
Comme beaucoup de gens, jâai des proches touchĂ©s tragiquement par les incendies en Gironde đą. Mes pensĂ©es vont Ă tous ceux qui ont tout perdu, et tout mon soutien et mon respect immense đ«Ą Ă ceux qui combattent ces monstres de flammes. Ici une vue depuis un Canadair. https://t.co/oBfedWHuMS
- Aug 21, 202515x their median
đž La dĂ©couverte de pas mal de mes photos jamais postĂ©es (!) sur le sujet m'ont donnĂ© l'idĂ©e de les enchaĂźner chronologiquement pour dĂ©crire une sortie extravĂ©hiculaire entiĂšre. Retour en juin 2021 pendant la mission #Alpha : sept heures suspendu au-dessus de la Terre đ, pour une installation de panneaux solaires... extrĂȘme. Allons-y photo par photo !!! Photo 1ïžâŁ Juste pour donner l'ambiance... mais revenons au dĂ©but âŹïž #AlphaArchives #Crew2 #Astronaute ©ESA/NASA-Thomas Pesquet @esa @ESA_fr @NASA @Space_Station
- Jul 27, 20269.0x their median
Le combat continue, force Ă ceux qui sont en pleine bataille encore aujourdâhui ! Il faudra sâen rappeler une fois le calme revenu. https://t.co/XSc1l3UroF
- Aug 18, 20265.4x their median
[English below] đ©đ»âđBonne chance @Soph_astro pour ta premiĂšre sortie extravĂ©hiculaire ! Et profite bien de cette activitĂ© vertigineuse ! On sera tous avec toi depuis la Terre đ, petit clin dâĆil Ă la team sortie : Jean-Loup ChrĂ©tien, Jean-Pierre HaignerĂ©, Philippe Perrin. / đ€Good luck to Sophie as she prepares to become the first French woman to perform a spacewalk today! đđđHereâs to our French colleagues who went for that kind of special walk before we did. đ«đ· And good luck to @astro_anil too! #Epsilon #SophieAdenot #ESA #astronaute @esa @ESA_fr @nasa @Space_Station
- Aug 13, 20264.3x their median
đđžSpectacle inoubliable hier soir pour ceux qui avaient la chance de se trouver dans lâalignement des astres ! Pour les autres, voici quelques-unes des plus belles photos de lâĂ©clipse. #eclipse #soleil #sun Plus de photos ici : https://t.co/TeeGytLaQe Et ici : https://t.co/VZlcoVTVYP 1- Paul Mortz 2- @pixhartmann @Reuters 3- @AJamesMcCarthy
- Jun 17, 20264.0x their median
Le plus lourd lancement jamais rĂ©alisĂ© par une Ariane 6 avec ses nouveaux boosters. Une belle rĂ©ussite et une nouvelle dĂ©monstration de ce que lâEurope est capable dâaccomplir lorsquâelle unit ses talents, ses compĂ©tences et ses ambitions. Bravo Ă toutes les Ă©quipes. đđȘđș #Ariane6 #VA269 @esa @ESA_fr @CNES @ArianeGroup @Arianespace @EuropeSpacePort
- Jun 20, 20263.4x their median
Astuce : le trĂšs bon site https://t.co/89VoFjNlre fonctionne aussi pour ceux qui cherchent de lâombre ! https://t.co/tWrLp3ujCB
- Jul 16, 20263.1x their median
đŹ Me faire clasher par Matt Damon đ, câĂ©tait pas sur ma bucket list en 2026, mais allez on prend đ , aprĂšs tout il est allĂ© sur Mars đđŽ et pas moi. Mais aprĂšs le soldat Ryan, Interstellar, seul sur Mars et maintenant lâOdyssee, ça fait quand mĂȘme pas mal de centaines de millions de dollars dĂ©pensĂ©s par Hollywood đ„pour le ramener Ă la maison đ , il faudrait peut-etre quâil arrĂȘte de sortir !! đ€Ł https://t.co/6PYFXi7U2a #TheOdyssey #MattDamon #GQ #ChristopherNolan @GQMagazine @GQ_France
- Jul 10, 20262.8x their median
Ăa y est, câest fini ! đâïž Une annĂ©e exceptionnelle de formation qui sâachĂšve avec la remise des brevets de pilotes dâessai. Fier de rejoindre une lignĂ©e qui remonte au brevet n°0001 de 1953⊠et une grande famille. FĂ©licitations Ă toute la promo 2026 ! đEt merci @DGA et @Airbus ! Plus dâinfos sur LinkedIn et photos en story insta.
- Aug 14, 20262.6x their median
đ«đ· On a beaucoup levĂ© les yeux vers le ciel cette semaine, mais le plus beau spectacle restera toujours dans lâautre direction : la Terre. đ En wallpaper cette semaine, la France presque entiĂšre vue depuis le sud-est. Un paysage de 2021 qui prend forcĂ©ment une autre dimension cet Ă©tĂ©. (Un autre dans le prochain tweet en anglais.) Plus dâinfos dans ce post : https://t.co/dd6he2ZCPV #Wallpaper #France #EarthFromSpace #ISS France mĂ©tropolitaine ©ESA/NASAâT. Pesquet - retouches L. Wallendorff @dpc313 @esa @esa_fr @nasa @Space_Station
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 540 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.04%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 57% of 3,791 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 51K times each, and 1.05% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.85% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.83 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 31% are part of a thread and 62% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.7K interactions, about 16x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #pam6, #spacestation, #astronaut.
- What is Thomas Pesquet's engagement rate on X?
- Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) has an engagement rate of 0.04%, based on the median interactions across 13 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,336,688 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.04%, Thomas Pesquet sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,759 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 @Thom_astro have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 57% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 @Thom_astro post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.83 posts per day across the measured window.