Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) engagement report
@PeterHotez - 403K followers on X
Measured over 7 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 7 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.
A typical post picks up 29 interactions against 403K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Posts are seen about 7.7K times each, and 0.379% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.90% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 7 posts sampled, 86% carry an image or video and 29% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.6K interactions, about 124x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #chasethefight, #houston, #scienceundersiege. Only 7 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
Measured over 7 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #chasethefight, #houston, #scienceundersiege.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.007%, Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) sits above the 10th percentile of the 41,462 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.013%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.013% |
| 50th percentile | 0.083% |
| 75th percentile | 0.446% |
| 90th percentile | 2.07% |
| 99th percentile | 143.9% |
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 Sunday 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 58K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 59K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 57K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 49K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 55K |
| 07:00 UTC | -4% | 59K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 69K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 80K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 83K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 90K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 99K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 108K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 111K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 115K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 112K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 104K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 97K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 86K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 76K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 65K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 59K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 254K |
| Monday | +2% | 326K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 350K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 312K |
| Thursday | -2% | 265K |
| Friday | -3% | 274K |
| Saturday | +3% | 248K |
Best tweets
- Mar 15, 2025124x 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
- Aug 29, 202652x 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
- Aug 29, 202619x 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
- Aug 30, 202612x 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
- Aug 30, 2026
https://t.co/KidoUGLT0Q
- Aug 30, 2026
Re: the recent articles about @TilmanJFertitta the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, so far I’ve seen no mention of his extraordinary track record of philanthropy here in HoustonTX especially the @UHouston and its new medical school @UHMedicine named after his family. My view: I think that should be said etc
- Aug 29, 2026
https://t.co/aHcbkxwA3x
- Aug 31, 2026
Some of my go to books on the intellectual history of the Texas Revolution and Independence. Paul Lack a professor in Abilene @mcmuniv Binkley headed the history dept @VanderbiltU Reichstein based in Germany https://t.co/g3Y1IG82q2
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
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 29 interactions against 403K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Posts are seen about 7.7K times each, and 0.379% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.90% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 7 posts sampled, 86% carry an image or video and 29% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.6K interactions, about 124x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #chasethefight, #houston, #scienceundersiege. Only 7 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
- 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 0.007%, based on the median interactions across 7 original posts from the last 30 days against 403,467 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.007%, Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) sits above the 10th percentile of the 41,462 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?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @PeterHotez post?
- Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.17 posts per day across the measured window.