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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) engagement report

@PeterHotez - 403K followers on X

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 27, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.014%
of 403K followers
Per impression
0.625%
8.8K views on a typical post
Reach
2.18%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
55
interactions (median)
Saved
0.011%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
6.2/day
active 37% of days
Peak time
00:00 UTC
Saturday

A typical post picks up 55 interactions against 403K followers, an engagement rate of 0.014%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 38% of 21,185 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 8.8K times each, and 0.625% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.18% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 91% carry an image or video and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 7.0K interactions, about 127x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #chasethefight, #scienceundersiege, #houston.

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 27, 2026. Recurring tags: #chasethefight, #scienceundersiege, #houston.

Compared with accounts its own size

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)'s engagement rate beats 38% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.

On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 35% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.014%, Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,656 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.146%
p750.697%
p902.61%
p9982.9%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 212,656 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,418 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.146%
75th percentile0.697%
90th percentile2.61%
99th percentile82.9%

This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built

Posting timing

This account posts most often around 00:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 00:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 00:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%89K
01:00 UTC-2%90K
02:00 UTC-3%88K
03:00 UTC-4%94K
04:00 UTC-5%76K
05:00 UTC-4%75K
06:00 UTC-5%86K
07:00 UTC-5%93K
08:00 UTC-4%108K
09:00 UTC-4%124K
10:00 UTC-3%129K
11:00 UTC-3%141K
12:00 UTC-3%154K
13:00 UTC-3%167K
14:00 UTC-4%173K
15:00 UTC-2%176K
16:00 UTC-3%171K
17:00 UTC-3%159K
18:00 UTC-2%149K
19:00 UTC-2%141K
20:00 UTC-1%131K
21:00 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Saturday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Saturday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Formats this account uses

Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video91% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link17% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 91% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
  • 17% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 237 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.

Best tweets

  • Sep 27, 2026127x their median

    TICKET. PUNCHED. https://t.co/y4lHvVleK5

    5.3K1.4K10019799K viewsView on X
  • Mar 15, 202566x their median

    An honor for me to be inducted into the Philosophical Society of Texas, the oldest learned society in the Republic of Texas, founded in 1837 by Sam Houston, Anson Jones, Mirabeau Lamar, full list attached https://t.co/MxOAPRpiQc

    3.2K3633650569K viewsView on X
  • Sep 7, 202153x their median

    With all the news of vaccines & immunity, did you know measles infections destroy immunity and cause “Immune Amnesia”, increasing risk of all other infections Our research in ‘15 & ‘19 discovered this & the abbreviated story is written up nicely here: 1/ https://t.co/t5DKoQljxM

    2.0K74788131View on X
  • Aug 29, 202627x their median

    Pregnant women among those sickened in Pennsylvania measles outbreak. One father in the epicenter of the outbreak said his infant son died after his pregnant wife, infected with measles, went into labor a month early. https://t.co/t3xp8SFfTW

    8764661243769K viewsView on X
  • Jul 20, 202623x their median

    There are more than 60 English translations of The Odyssey. So which one should you read? Here’s how six major translations differ. 1. Robert Fagles Reads like a novel. A common classroom choice. 2. Richmond Lattimore The scholar's translation. Closest to the Greek. 3. Robert Fitzgerald The most literary. Formal, musical, and long a standard in American classrooms. 4. Stanley Lombardo Closer to how the poem would be read aloud. Popular for performance and teaching. 5. Emily Wilson Plain and direct. Written in iambic pentameter. 6. Alexander Pope The great historical translation. Written in heroic couplets, ornate, elevated, and far less literal than the others. Which translation would you choose?

    1.0K13210730130K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202610x their median

    The horrific catastrophe in Nepal, Ebola in DR Congo, Covid 19, heat extremes across the U.S. as @MichaelEMann @PeterHotez detail in our book #ScienceUnderSiege these threats to our planet: climate change + pandemics = our new normal, but there’s a third leg to this tripod: the vast disinformation machine blocking our ability to respond. Unless we can fix this we’re done. All 3 are existential threats

    3941554413K viewsView on X
  • Sep 26, 20266.3x their median

    Paris, New York, books by Freud, Lacan, Kafka, Heine, Joyce, and Harold Bloom, looks she’s all set for the next few weeks… https://t.co/PZ3cUrwkz4

    327137111K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 20266.2x their median

    Coming up on the third anniversary of my paper on the partial overlap between antiscience and antisemitism, how Einstein’s theory of relativity was deemed the “Jewish fraud,” and of course Freud’s psychoanalysis in Vienna and the attacks I endure each day for making low cost vaccines. It’s a dark paper but it’s meaningful and informative. Tragically many of our nation’s universities and academic health centers don’t want to address these aspects https://t.co/5678TL97Xp

    24690317.7K viewsView on X
  • Sep 26, 20266.0x their median

    My books on the links between anti-science and antisemitism. The connections are not immediately obvious and take some explanation as I’ve detailed in my writings. This is a dark and difficult topic, which accelerated during the pandemic. So many of the smear campaigns against me and other scientists in even numbered election years appeal to their base by targeting scientists making outrageous claims of me making virus with Soros or Rothschilds. This is bread and butter for the Murdochs and NewsCorps and Fox News. The stuff they write about me in their rotten tabloid newspapers or broadcast on Fox is god awful

    252687218K viewsView on X
  • Jul 3, 20263.2x their median

    Jefferson sold 6,487 books to Congress. He told John Adams in a letter, June 10, 1815: "I cannot live without books; but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object." He said fewer would suffice. Then he collected 6,000 more books.

    142196824K viewsView on X

Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.

Recurring topics

#chasethefight#scienceundersiege#houston#otd#australia

The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 55 interactions against 403K followers, an engagement rate of 0.014%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 38% of 21,185 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 8.8K times each, and 0.625% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.18% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 91% carry an image or video and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 7.0K interactions, about 127x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #chasethefight, #scienceundersiege, #houston.

What is Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)'s engagement rate on X?
Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) (@PeterHotez) has an engagement rate of 0.014%, based on the median interactions across 23 original posts from the last 30 days against 402,926 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.014%, Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,656 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
Does @PeterHotez have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 38% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
When does @PeterHotez post?
Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 6.2 posts per day across the measured window.

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