Matt Ridley ✓

@mattwridley · Northumberland, UK · joined 28 Jun 2009

Biologist, columnist | Author of Red Queen, Genome, Rational Optimist, the Evolution of Everything, How Innovation Works, Viral and Birds, Sex and Beauty.

144 050Followers

3 720Following

47 365Posts total

565.3KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Matt Ridley ✓@mattwridley31 Aug

People who insisted the pandemic had a natural origin seem to be keen to deny that the Trisuli river flash flood had a natural origin: blaming it on Chinese dams or man made climate change. Too slow to blame the lab; too quick to blame the dam. 5.5K views · 63 likes · 8 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Matt Ridley ✓@mattwridley30 Aug

As in England, metropolis votes for EU, rest of country votes against. 6.2K views · 56 likes · 7 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Matt Ridley ✓@mattwridley30 Aug

Yes: "glaciers are not a permanent fixture of our environment and we need to quit pretending that they are. Glaciers will always be growing or receding; they are not supposed to stay static over time. Pretending so is a fool’s errand." 32.9K views · 651 likes · 134 reposts · 36 replies Open on X →

Matt Ridley ✓@mattwridley30 Aug

Iceland: national continuation of EU accession negotiation referendum With all votes in except from the Southwest constituency, "No" has built a sizable lead. It should be noted that "No" currently leads in this constituency. Yes: 47.46% (-2.44%) No: 52.52% (+2.44%) 99% https: 72.9K views · 259 likes · 57 reposts · 21 replies Open on X →

Matt Ridley ✓@mattwridley30 Aug

They rush to call this event man made but insisted for years Covid was not man made. 8.7K views · 257 likes · 33 reposts · 20 replies Open on X →

Matt Ridley ✓@mattwridley29 Aug

NYT knows what caused the Nepal disaster https://t.co/LJoVAPTgQ6 19.2K views · 118 likes · 13 reposts · 94 replies Open on X →

Matt Ridley ✓@mattwridley29 Aug

Long story short, this is BS. Landslides / avalanches in Nepal have happened for tens of millions of years. In fact, floods associated with landslides are how the V-shaped valleys in the region were carved out millions of years ago at pre-industrial atmospheric carbon dioxide ht 75.8K views · 2.7K likes · 647 reposts · 92 replies Open on X →

Matt Ridley ✓@mattwridley27 Mar

@mattwridley @NIH @NIHDirector_Jay Your book informed, confirmed my own conclusions…I know there’s new info on the CP gene somethings that line up with the evidence on how ridiculously quick Covid aligned to infect humans… A Covid19 recap: The Chinese lie and claim there is no o 4.9K views · 43 likes · 7 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Matt Ridley ✓@mattwridley27 Mar

@mattwridley @NIH @NIHDirector_Jay Was it because you realized you could sell books? I don’t buy your excuse for not publishing your findings in peer review journals. The fact you were invited by the head of NIH shows you are not being suppressed. I suspect you didn’t want to fac 2.1K views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Matt Ridley ✓@mattwridley27 Mar

@mattwridley @NIH @NIHDirector_Jay I totally agree about your lecture, COVID Virus is bio weapon and modRNA also. 2.6K views · 25 likes · 4 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Matt Ridley ✓@mattwridley27 Mar

In my lecture at @NIH, at the invitation of @NIHDirector_Jay, I explained why I changed my mind from thinking the lab leak theory of covid origins was unlikely to thinking it was almost certainly true. Please watch and assess the evidence yourself. https://t.co/7QBeGJT3yY 334.3K views · 925 likes · 244 reposts · 76 replies Open on X →

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7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views19 216this account5 983median for 100K–1M

Reach, %13.34%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.38%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	19 216	5 983	3.21×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	13.34%	1.49%	8.95×
Engagement rate	1.38%	0.93%	1.49×

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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

334.3K27 Mar

2.6K

2.1K

4.9K

75.8K29 Aug

19.2K

8.7K30 Aug

72.9K

32.9K

6.2K

5.5K31 Aug

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.38%27 Mar

1.29%

0.96%

1.04%

4.61%29 Aug

1.24%

3.57%30 Aug

0.50%

2.53%

1.08%

1.38%31 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes69.8%5 117 in total

Reposts15.7%1 154 in total

Replies4.9%356 in total

Quotes1.8%133 in total

Bookmarks7.7%567 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.

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