Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 ✓

@DoctorChrisVT · @HTropDis · joined 11 Nov 2011

NHS Dr @HTropDis @UCLH Professor of Infection and Global Health @UCL @UNICEF_uk supporter Broadcasting: @MiradorMgmt Books: @RCWZW

1 143 992Followers

2 183Following

25 007Posts total

385.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views1 114this account23 873median for 1M–10M

Reach, %0.10%this account1.02%median for 1M–10M

Engagement, %0.33%this account1.59%median for 1M–10M

Metric	This account	Median for 1M–10M	Ratio
Median views per post	1 114	23 873	0.05×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.10%	1.02%	0.10×
Engagement rate	0.33%	1.59%	0.21×

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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

56122 Jul

500

553

2.8K

2.7K

651

41K10 Aug

42.2K21 Aug

87.3K22 Aug

1.1K

54K

56723 Aug

49.2K

8

Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

3.39%22 Jul

1.20%

0.90%

0.25%

0.22%

1.84%

0.20%10 Aug

0.61%21 Aug

0.19%22 Aug

0.19%

0.01%

0.18%23 Aug

0.03%

0.00%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 1.59%.

What the audience does

Likes62.6%625 in total

Reposts18.7%187 in total

Replies4.6%46 in total

Quotes1.8%18 in total

Bookmarks12.3%123 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

@DoctorChrisVT @kitty__drake This raises an interesting behaviour-change question. We discuss ‘environment’ as an influence on behaviour. What happens when an environment has been deliberately designed, tested and refined to produce the behaviour? Is it still simply an environmen 8 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 23 Aug 2026 Yes and I’m in it!! 49.2K views · 15 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 23 Aug 2026 @DoctorChrisVT That was fascinating. Vienetta makes me think of smoking and drinking alcohol - habits that are way in the past, so it was interesting to see cigarettes mentioned. It’s a circle that can’t be squared, but they’re clearly not going to stop trying. 567 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 23 Aug 2026 @xandvt @DoctorChrisVT Will there be an audio book? 54K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 22 Aug 2026 @DoctorChrisVT Agree! So engaging and on point 1.1K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 22 Aug 2026 “ For decades food companies have employed scientists to work out how to keep you eating without stopping long enough to remember you have a body... …By contrast, the selling point of Magnum’s new ice-creams seems to be they will keep you laser-focused on your own body.” A 87.3K views · 136 likes · 23 reposts · 7 replies 22 Aug 2026 "At the show were also seven wholesalers selling chocolate bars, crisps, and sweets, one of which had a display stand full of bags of Walkers crisps, Lucozade, Mars bars, and Kit Kats, with a sign saying “Please help yourself.” Five ice cream firms were present, four soft drinks 42.2K views · 194 likes · 52 reposts · 7 replies 21 Aug 2026 "It will turbocharge inequality; it is already facilitating a breathtaking shift of power and wealth from the hands of the many to the hands of a tiny number of men who – to put it in terms for which I can’t be sued – seem to hold dangerously damaged views about the value and 41K views · 64 likes · 16 reposts · 2 replies 10 Aug 2026 @DoctorChrisVT @TyBealPhD Don’t people have agency in what they chose to buy and eat? 651 views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 22 Jul 2026 @TyBealPhD @juliaoftoronto @badvertising11 @ChristinaAVogel @ElsTorreele @Elad_Si @Food_Foundation @BiteBack2030 @ZackPolanski @GavinNewsom @KevinH_PhD @GyorgyScrinis @BoydSwinburn 2.7K views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 22 Jul 2026 @herdyshepherd1 @JimBethell @NaomiAKlein @ZackPolanski @RSylvester1 @BBCr4today @YvetteCooperMP @EricTopol @willnorman @xandvt @VladVexler @UNICEF_uk @SBarquera @1stepsnutrition @AustinFrerick @WPHNA @ADPHUK @IanByrneMP 2.8K views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 22 Jul 2026 @MarkLawrence_Oz @xandvt @CMO_England @PhilBakerNZ @mgtmccartney @SamCoatesSky @carolecadwalla @DaleVince @PrivateEyeNews @HadleyFreeman @krishgm @IanByrneMP @theJeremyVine @Garethiacobucci @johnsweeneyroar 553 views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 22 Jul 2026 @emmanFre @ElenaDebre @Lumin_lwin @cboutaud @MargotGibbs @bearamalhosilva @CrossingBordas @andrearincon24 @andrewgregory @edwanderley @gloririva @jahnavi_sen @JesseKathan @CMonteiro_USP 500 views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 22 Jul 2026 Most of the time the companies don’t win but it doesn’t matter. These lawsuits delay and weaken public health laws and in the meantime, these companies can keep doing the things they love to do - marketing unhealthy food as healthy - paying less tax - not paying for the cost of 561 views · 13 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies 22 Jul 2026 A Ferrero spokesperson said it supported public health objectives aimed at reducing obesity and diet-related disease. This support included 4 lawsuits. 545 views · 12 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 22 Jul 2026 A Danone spokesperson said: “We are convinced that businesses should play a positive role, alongside governments, public health institutions and other stakeholders, in addressing public health challenges.” Their idea of a 'positive role, alongside governments' includes 5 597 views · 13 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies 22 Jul 2026 Check out the quotes in the @guardian from company spokespeople: Coca-Cola: “We believe public health challenges are best addressed through collaboration among governments, public health authorities, the private sector and civil society. We engage constructively on topics https 810 views · 14 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies 22 Jul 2026 The investigation identified >230 lawsuits filed over policies targeting UPF in the USA, the UK, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, and India, between 2010 and 2025. Labelling was the policy that governments were most sued over, followed by taxes on junk food and marketing restriction 1.2K views · 15 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies 22 Jul 2026 ‘If all else fails, sue.’ This is an astounding new report. We know that big food companies deliberately engineer and market unhealthy products so that we eat too much of them, too often. And lots of you will have seen that this is why multiple lawsuits are beginning in the 90.6K views · 98 likes · 52 reposts · 16 replies 22 Jul 2026 In public, the richest food companies, the ones you buy from every day (PepsiCo, Mondelēz, Kellogg’s, Danone, Ferrero) - say they want to be part of the solution. But this astounding piece of work by @LHreports @guardian and other collaborators identifies over 230 lawsuits where 8.8K views · 23 likes · 11 reposts · 1 replies 22 Jul 2026

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