The New York Review of Books is on Twitter (X) as @nybooks, with 2,052,277 followers and 29,042 posts. It lost 404 followers in the last 7 days and 1,865 in the last 30 days. A typical post draws 11 interactions, an engagement rate of 0.001% per follower.
Insights
Over the last 30 days @nybooks lost 1,865 followers (-0.09%). In the last 7 days the change was -404 followers. Its strongest tracked day added +15 followers on Sep 5, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 11 interactions against 2.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 265 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 4.9K times each, and 0.225% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.238% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline.
Measured over 265 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026. Recurring tags: #dante, #goethe, #petrarch.
Full engagement reportFollower growth
Best tracked day: +15 followers on 2026-09-05.
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Bio
‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
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- What is the Twitter handle for The New York Review of Books?
- The New York Review of Books posts on Twitter (X) as @nybooks. The profile is at x.com/nybooks, and the View on X button at the top of this page opens it.
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- When did The New York Review of Books join Twitter?
- The New York Review of Books joined Twitter (X) in December 2007. The @nybooks account is 18 years old. Searches for The New York Review of Books age often mean a personal age, which we do not publish. The figure here is the account age only.
