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John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) X analytics
@ID_AA_Carmack
AGI at Keen Technologies, former CTO Oculus VR, Founder Id Software and Armadillo Aerospace
@ID_AA_Carmack has 4.2M followers, a median of 149.1K views per post and a 0.42% engagement rate.
Based on 20 recent original posts (high confidence). Updated October 8, 2026.
At a glance
Key stats
- Followers
- 4.2M
- Median views per post
- 149.1K
- Average views per post
- 570.9K
- Engagement rate (by views)
- 0.42%
- Original posts per week
- 2.2
- Average engagements per post
- 2,380
Engagement grade
Developing
This is near the lower benchmark range for accounts with 1M+ followers.
Profile score
81/100
- Profile completeness100
- Audience shape100
- Engagement25
- Consistency98
- Positioning clarity82
Monetization
Estimated X creator earnings
$45–$109 in the last 30 days
From 9.1M views on @ID_AA_Carmack's original posts in the last 30 days.
Rewards eligibility: likely
Rough estimate. X publishes no payout rate, so this assumes about $5–12 per 1M original-post impressions from reported creator payouts. Only Premium viewers’ impressions count, so real payouts can be much lower.
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Timing
Best times to post
When @ID_AA_Carmack's recent posts performed best (UTC).
- #1 slot
7:23 PM
Monday · UTC
- #2 slot
7:18 PM
Tuesday · UTC
- #3 slot
7:41 PM
Wednesday · UTC
What worked
Top recent posts
- 01
@ID_AA_Carmack ·
I recently had a conversation with a NASA JPL engineer that was bemoaning the fact that the internal “Planetary Protection” department at NASA threw up substantial roadblocks for Mars missions in the name of protecting the pristine Martian environment. They will surely be apoplectic about this. I kind of think we should just get it over with and empty a septic tank on mars so nobody can imagine it needs dedicated protection. Project Vandalize Mars.
- 545Replies
- 633Reposts
- 8KLikes
- 1.4MViews
3.5x average engagementText onlyLong post (over 200 characters)Posted Fri 00:00 UTCQuote post - 02
@ID_AA_Carmack ·
I recently went through a translation of Musashi’s Book of Five Rings. The introduction chronicled the evolution of swordsmanship and martial arts in general from pragmatic battlefield necessities to sports, historical curiosities, and hobbies. It was interesting to hear how in the post-WW2 occupation when martial arts were banned, Judo was represented as equivalent to western wrestling, and Kendo later to western fencing. The poignant undercurrent for me is that I can see many programming skills following that path. There are probably dozens of people reading this that remember hand assembling opcodes to hex and still have some magic numbers burned into their memory, but even the small group of people still programming in assembly today (hey, @FFmpeg !) don’t work at that primitive level now. AI is making many other programming skills much less critical. We aren’t there yet, but carefully writing code completely by hand is moving from a -jitsu to a -do. Code-do? Codo? That’s ok! The retro computing scene is delightful, full of people building and exercising old skills for the love of it. But don’t be the out of touch Kung Fu master, heir to lifetimes of tradition, that gets mauled by an amateur MMA fighter. Musashi would probably have been pretty enthusiastic about assault rifles.
- 309Replies
- 467Reposts
- 4.7KLikes
- 7.1MViews
3.1x average engagementText onlyLong post (over 200 characters)Posted Fri 16:00 UTC - 03
@ID_AA_Carmack ·
Bonus! I will be joining Romero and Tom for the 9am session tomorrow at #quakecon https://t.co/dDzwS2NTrm
Photo on the original post- 242Replies
- 598Reposts
- 9.2KLikes
- 378.8KViews
3.0x average engagementHas an imageShort post (under 100 characters)Posted Thu 05:00 UTC - 04
@ID_AA_Carmack ·
https://t.co/896OIixzGh
- 47Replies
- 100Reposts
- 1.2KLikes
- 173.1KViews
1.6x average engagementShares a linkShort post (under 100 characters)Posted Thu 19:00 UTC - 05
@ID_AA_Carmack ·
I highly recommend @fabynou ‘s Game Engine Black Books for anyone even vaguely interested in 90’s game technology!
- 82Replies
- 181Reposts
- 3.1KLikes
- 242KViews
1.4x average engagementText onlyMedium length (100-200 characters)Posted Sun 13:00 UTCQuote post - 06
@ID_AA_Carmack ·
Now that serious industrialization of space in the name of data centers is within the Overton window, it feels like time to bring up Rotovators again. Even if Starship completely meets all design goals with low overhead orbital reusability, it isn’t the end-all of cost effective access to space. Momentum exchange tethers could substantially reduce propellant consumption and operational challenges. The idea is that you have a tapered cable a few hundred km long attached to a substantial dead weight, and you set it spinning like one spoke of a wheel as it orbits earth. A rocket could fly up to space at much less than orbital velocity and grab onto the end of the rotating tether, then get pulled up to a faster speed and fling the payload off into a stable orbit. Falcon precision landings (with suicide burns!), and now SuperHeavy catches demonstrate that big rockets can precisely dock with infrastructure, and doing it in space is generally easier than doing it on the ground. The big win is in electrodynamic tethers, where you can theoretically use (lots and lots of) solar panels to raise the tether orbit after it has pulled itself lower while picking up a payload. That would be a game changer, but it hasn’t been unequivocally demonstrated to be practical. Even without that, just using chemical propulsion, it could still give significant efficiencies. Only the mass of the payload that is actually flung off the top of the tether needs to have the velocity made up by engine burns. The rest of the mass of the rocket “gives it back” when it drops back off at the bottom several rotations later over the launch site. Because the pickup and dropoff happen at much less than orbital velocity, there is no terrible reentry heating challenge. The vehicle gets simpler and more robust. So, you could rebalance a two stage rocket to be more propellant efficient, or you could make a reusable single stage to tether rocket. A SSTT might still use more propellant per kg of payload than Starship, but the operational advantages would be large. You lose lots of flexibility with tether systems compared to conventional rockets, but it would be like putting deep water harbors in key places. https://t.co/IUal4ApCWw
- 139Replies
- 134Reposts
- 1.7KLikes
- 160.5KViews
1.0x average engagementShares a linkLong post (over 200 characters)Posted Thu 01:00 UTC
Formats
Content mix
- Text only
- 50%
- With media
- 20%
- With links
- 6 posts
- With hashtags
- 1 posts
Creator style: High-reach broadcaster
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