Scientific American ✓

@sciam · New York City · joined 04 May 2008

Awesome discoveries. Expert insights. Science that shapes the world.

4 252 009Followers

789Following

77 885Posts total

1.9MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views11 906this account24 048median for 1M–10M

Reach, %0.28%this account1.04%median for 1M–10M

Engagement, %0.80%this account1.58%median for 1M–10M

Metric	This account	Median for 1M–10M	Ratio
Median views per post	11 906	24 048	0.50×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.28%	1.04%	0.27×
Engagement rate	0.80%	1.58%	0.50×

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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

1.8M30 Jul

19.5K2 Sep

133

32.5K

1403 Sep

133

16.8K

11.9K

121

14.9K

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.28%30 Jul

0.27%2 Sep

2.22%

0.00%

0.80%

15.00%3 Sep

11.28%

0.18%

0.59%

14.88%

0.58%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 1.58%.

What the audience does

Likes87.0%36 640 in total

Reposts10.8%4 549 in total

Replies1.4%582 in total

Quotes0.7%275 in total

Bookmarks0.1%62 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

Psilocybin is already being studied to treat mental health conditions such as anxiety, addiction and PTSD. But can it also prevent nerve pain? A new study offers a tantalizing clue. https://t.co/UeQot3Hho3 14.9K views · 70 likes · 15 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 @sciam Hey, what about China? WHAT ABOUT CHINA? W-H-A-T A-B-O-U-T C-H-I-N-A ? C-H-I-N-A ! Are you people brain dead? 121 views · 16 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 The European and Japanese BepiColombo mission is officially in the homestretch of its 8-year journey to Mercury. Soon, it will begin observing the planet closest to the sun—becoming only the second mission to ever orbit this rocky world https://t.co/LY4wDLKFrt 11.9K views · 50 likes · 17 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 These pygmy raccoons had the receipts—and they molded them into balls to play with. Besides being adorable, it’s actually a milestone for the endangered creatures. https://t.co/onAXYll6E0 16.8K views · 25 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 @sciam Wow, the weather is better than ever, keep it coming. 133 views · 15 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @sciam “Scientific” American. I used to have a subscription to your magazine. Now you are anti-science. 140 views · 21 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 The world is on track to blow past the Paris Agreement's 1.5 degrees Celsius global warming target in the next few years, the United Nations says—the new best-case scenario is 1.8 C of warming https://t.co/PP1IqN2ZXm 32.5K views · 140 likes · 74 reposts · 39 replies 02 Sep 2026 @sciam The Nepal flood was due to a rock slide not global warming. 133 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 @sciam Seems like if the planet were not warming, a chunk of iceberg wouldn't have broken off and caused this disaster of epic proportions. #ClimateCrisis 45 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 After one of the worst natural disasters in Nepal’s history, experts explain what’s at stake with a super El Niño looming on the horizon https://t.co/rlLu3EMWch 19.5K views · 36 likes · 13 reposts · 3 replies 02 Sep 2026 Thank you Germany 🇩🇪, for sacrificing your economy to save the planet. https://t.co/Sl5O6XQiTT 1.8M views · 36.3K likes · 4.4K reposts · 533 replies 30 Jul 2026