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Matthew Herper

@matthewherper · Undisclosed. · joined 03 Jun 2009

Writing and events at STAT. This is biology's century; Every data point has a face. ‘21 Polk Award. Signal: MattHerper.92

111 705Followers
3 036Following
118 930Posts total
328.9KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views3 012this account21 891median for 100K–1M
Reach, %2.70%this account6.81%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.21%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M
MetricThis accountMedian for 100K–1MRatio
Median views per post3 01221 8910.14×
Reach (views ÷ followers)2.70%6.81%0.40×
Engagement rate0.21%1.14%0.19×

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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

299.2K13 Apr
1.5K
1.2K
586
3K1 Sep
14.4K
2.8K2 Sep
2.8K
3.2K

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.14%13 Apr
0.19%
1.48%
0.51%
0.17%1 Sep
0.43%
0.21%2 Sep
0.21%
0.46%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.14%.

What the audience does

Likes70.3%416 in total
Reposts10.8%64 in total
Replies4.9%29 in total
Quotes2.4%14 in total
Bookmarks11.7%69 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

Ultragenyx drug to treat Angelman syndrome, a rare disease, fails key study https://t.co/J94RvJi6YI 3.2K views · 12 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 02 Sep 2026 AI Prognosis: How Transfyr is tackling the ‘dumb problems’ at the intersection of AI, bio https://t.co/lIucLlxbRU 2.8K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 Medical experts release vaccination guidelines for fall, winter https://t.co/60ZbVzUJZq 2.8K views · 3 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 Worth reading. https://t.co/IORsQ72530 14.4K views · 43 likes · 6 reposts · 9 replies 01 Sep 2026 Five burning questions on Trump’s latest deals with drugmakers https://t.co/DFLfow9sVk via @statnews 3K views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 @matthewherper @realmikefox THANK YOU to all who make this possible for your continued dedication towards parkinsons research 🙏♥️ @McFlysNFTs 🥳 586 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 13 Apr 2023 @matthewherper @realmikefox Michael J. Fox has been a SUPER HERO for Parkinson's. I wish more stars would use their leverage for the good of Americans like Mr. Fox. 1.2K views · 17 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 13 Apr 2023 @matthewherper @realmikefox Good piece talking about biomarkers. Raw science investigators don’t generally like to do biomarkers despite their being crucial to good clinical trials, so pushing them more (novel ones, natural history wrt biomarkers) is good. 1.5K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 13 Apr 2023 A #Parkinsons ‘game changer,’ backed by Michael J. Fox, could lead to new diagnostics and, someday, treatments I don't usually do the ICYMI thing, but this was fun to do and I wanted an excuse to post this pic of @realmikefox and me again. https://t.co/1CmmmroqOz https://t.co/ 299.2K views · 326 likes · 55 reposts · 15 replies 13 Apr 2023

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