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Jeff Foust

@jeff_foust · Rockville, Maryland, USA · joined 28 May 2007

Senior writer, @SpaceNews_Inc. Tips? DMs open, email jfoust@spacenews.com, or on Signal: jfoust.58. Also @jfoust.bsky.social.

113 395Followers
1 431Following
87 514Posts total
99.4KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views10 055this account4 256median for 100K–1M
Reach, %8.87%this account1.64%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %1.26%this account1.36%median for 100K–1M
MetricThis accountMedian for 100K–1MRatio
Median views per post10 0554 2562.36×
Reach (views ÷ followers)8.87%1.64%5.41×
Engagement rate1.26%1.36%0.93×

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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

11.5K30 Aug
6.5K
28.2K1 Sep
1.6K
775
1.2K
18.1K3 Sep
11.2K
10.1K5 Sep
10K6 Sep

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.63%30 Aug
1.11%
1.54%1 Sep
1.41%
2.97%
4.98%
0.41%3 Sep
0.97%
3.07%5 Sep
0.91%6 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.36%.

What the audience does

Likes83.9%1 107 in total
Reposts7.9%104 in total
Replies3.9%51 in total
Quotes0.8%10 in total
Bookmarks3.6%48 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

"It is time to clearly state that all European satellites must be launched on European launchers! An obvious fact that is not yet a rule." (It is not clear there is yet sufficient European launch capacity to serve that European launch demand.) 10K views · 77 likes · 6 reposts · 8 replies 06 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
Isar Aerospace reports the second stage of Spectrum achieved a 180 x 500 km orbit (preliminary figures) on today's launch. 10.1K views · 299 likes · 10 reposts · 1 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
Worth noting several executives of American space companies are still scheduled to speak at the event, and likely more in attendance. https://t.co/ZHLFZAGX7U 11.2K views · 96 likes · 11 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
Politico reports that SpX, Blue, Stoke and Starcloud have canceled their participation in French President Macron’s International Space Summit next week. 18.1K views · 67 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
@jeff_foust "Competed Fiercely", please. The only competitive angle on the BO side is litigation. Perhaps @NASAAdmin made a decision in exchange for not being sued. I demand process and criteria transparency on behalf of my tax dollars. 1.2K views · 58 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
@jeff_foust Yeah that’s not happening. BO is not going to deliver that on time. 775 views · 20 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
@jeff_foust Any behind the scenes idea on how they chose blue over RL? 1.6K views · 20 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
NASA selects Blue Origin to build the Mars Telecommunications Network spacecraft for launch in late 2028 for $700 million. Blue Origin and Rocket Lab competed fiercely for this project. https://t.co/tjrGgFbdFR 28.2K views · 345 likes · 55 reposts · 28 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
Updated the story after this morning's post-launch press conference, including That Phone Call. 6.5K views · 64 likes · 4 reposts · 3 replies 30 Aug 2026 · Open on X →
Falcon Heavy launches NASA’s Roman Space Telescope https://t.co/9HW6u81kcz https://t.co/KPWrXyPrCn 11.5K views · 61 likes · 11 reposts · 0 replies 30 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

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