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Matthew Herper

Matthew Herper

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Followers
111.7K
Posts
118.9K
Following
3K
Account age
17 yrs
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📊 Post performance

154.4K
Avg views / post
1.4×
Reach vs followers
Jun 2009
On X since

🔥 Top post: The 140 character limit was a feature, not a bug. · 268.1K views

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.04 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 0 video · 3 image · 15 text.
Follower / following
37×
Follows 3K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Verification
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A paid X Premium (Blue) verified account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post The 140 character limit was a feature, not a bug. 268.1K❤ 3.5K🔁 187
I just want to emphasize: This is not normal. This is unprecedented. And it is chaos. This morning my colleagues -- who are working quite hard -- reported that the White House had decimated CDC offices related to injury prevention, respir… 154.4K❤ 2.1K🔁 862 The entire STAT staff is updating this story about layoffs at HHS. There will be a lot of info. But the short version is this: a lot of the people who would keep drugs safe and effective, to protect patients in trials, and to fight bird f… 109.5K❤ 1.1K🔁 600 Orangutan used medicinal plant to treat wound, first time ever seen 231.2K❤ 1.2K🔁 234 We knew Merck saw something when they paid $250 million... Moderna cancer vaccine reduces melanoma’s return by 44% $MRNA ❤ 676🔁 176 A big one. I've been saying for a decade: "This is biology's century." And we're still not ready. My editors asked me to explain what that means. It was harder than I expected. I hope you like reading it. ❤ 752🔁 246 “I mean seriously, in an age when we fly by Pluto and send Jimmy Carter’s metastatic melanoma into remission, how is it we cannot figure out how to hire and promote female professors of chemistry?” ⁦@CarolynBertozzi⁩ via ⁦@lisamjarvis⁩ ❤ 684🔁 141 This current discussion from the CDC on collecting data about the vaccines just reveals how terrible the U.S. collection of health data are. All of it goes back to our fragmented IT infrastructure. Compare it to the data coming from the U.… ❤ 549🔁 143 Fact check: No evidence 2-year-old died after getting COVID-19 vaccine ❤ 1.2K🔁 949 Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine appears effective against mutation in new coronavirus variants -study. ❤ 639🔁 244 We've heard a lot about the $PFE/ $BNTX data, but seeing this is something else. From the company briefing docs ahead of Thursday's FDA panel. ❤ 620🔁 220 The Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine showed 90% efficacy. For biotech folks: Interim was done at 94 cases, not 32. There are questions. But this is hope. ❤ 1.1K🔁 342

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined X in 2009 — 17 years ago.
👁️Averages 154.4K views per post.
📤Posts about per week.
💬1.28% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated
69/100
Good Credibility score
85%
Real Real audience
Low Fake-follower risk
High Data confidence
  • Est. 85% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Engagement (~1.4× of followers engage each post) is around typical for X.
  • Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (17+ years old).
  • 1.28% engagement — below the ~14.4% typical for this size.

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

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

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