Alexander Gerst ✓
@Astro_Alex · Cologne/Houston/Moscow · joined 13 Oct 2011
European of German nationality, @ESA astronaut, geophysicist, volcanologist, explorer. Lived one year in space where he served as Commander of ISS Expedition 57
Latest posts
Against accounts of the same size
9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.
| Metric | This account | Median for 1M–10M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 264 | 14 648 | 0.02× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 0.03% | 0.74% | 0.03× |
| Engagement rate | 1.99% | 0.70% | 2.85× |
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.
What the audience does
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
Daily snapshots since 22 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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