Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) witnessed a dramatic jump in influencer conversations on Twitter during the first week of March over the previous week, following the first successful landing of its Starship rocket, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

On 3 March 2021, SpaceX achieved a major milestone as it launched its Starship prototype rocket SN10, though it exploded after a soft landing. It is the first one to make a soft landing in high-altitude test flight while its predecessors SN8 and SN9 could not make it. Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, aims to prepare a Starship prototype by this year end for its first orbital flight. The company is next preparing for SN11, the successor of SN10, for prototype testing.

Smitarani Tripathy, Influencer Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “An analysis of GlobalData’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp, Company Influencer Platform revealed 300% spike in influencer conversations on SpaceX during first week of March over the previous week, led by the discussions related to the launch of SN10. Among the discussions, Flights, Rocket, #Startship, #SN10 and #Spacex emerged as most mentioned trends and hashtags during the period.”

Below are a few most popular influencers tweets captured by GlobalData’s Influencer platform:

1. Nayef Al-Rodha, Honorary Fellow at University of Oxford:

“#SpaceX’s #SN10 Starship prototype lands after epic test launch — but then explodes

The big boom notwithstanding, it’s a major milestone for SpaceX.”

https://twitter.com/SustainHistory/status/1367394129932677120

2. Tim Dodd, Owner at Everyday Astronaut:

“I still can’t get over what I witnessed yesterday. We have a ton of footage to go through but I’m still just in awe. That landing profile is a work of art. I can’t wait to watch this thing evolve, mature and become routine. I can feel it! #SN10 #Starship

@elonmusk

@spacex”

https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1367516402656178177

3. Elies Campco, Growth, Partnerships and Business Development at Telegram Messenger:

“Wow. Congratulations on the soft landing (& boom)

@SpaceX

! ?????”

https://twitter.com/elies/status/1367256468332888068

4. Peter Van Valkenburgh, Director of Research at Coin Center:

“awesome” is rarely used to mean what it means, but this is awesome and more. Congrats to

@SpaceX”

https://twitter.com/valkenburgh/status/1367258936819277824