gary taubes engagement report
@garytaubes - 122K followers on X
Measured over 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on October 5, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 1 original post for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.
A typical post picks up 312 interactions against 122K followers, an engagement rate of 0.256%. Posts are seen about 18K times each, and 1.69% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 15.1% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.07 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 12K interactions, about 39x its own typical post. Only 1 original post have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
Measured over 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on October 5, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.256%, gary taubes sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,374 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.678%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 18:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 100% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 1090 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Jul 2, 202639x their median
🇳🇴 A velocidade do Haaland. https://t.co/veZYXJfeVq
- Jan 1, 20241.7x their median
1960: < 2 million Americans with diagnosed diabetes Today: 30 million* Is this a problem that can be solved by drug therapy? There must be a better way My new book, Rethinking Diabetes, is out Jan 2 https://t.co/PCS7FIhH15 #diabetes #wefightdiabetes * https://t.co/ANDoI2oEKP @diabetesdaily @ADA_DiabetesPro @IntDiabetesFed @JoslinDiabetes @diaTribeNews @Diabetescouk @BeyondType1 @DiabetesCanada @ADCESdiabetes @Diabetes_DRI @martymakary @samiinkinen @bretschermd @davidludwig @lowcarbgp @robbwolf @drjasonfung @KenDBerryMD @SBakerMD @drmarkhyman @shellenberger @DrJBhattacharya
- Jun 16, 2026
Early research suggests that some mental health conditions could stem from metabolic disorders. If so, the findings could change how we treat mental illness https://t.co/hUUyHjtazy
- Apr 27, 2026
You may think of the high-fat, low-carb eating plan as a faddish way to lose weight. But the keto diet is now being used to tackle conditions from severe depression to bipolar disorder and anorexia, with transformative results https://t.co/0dva7j2ggY
- Sep 6, 2026
In the past two years, 14 studies have exploited the same remarkable natural experiment: the end of sugar rationing in Britain in 1953. All have come to essentially the same conclusion: greater exposure to sugar early in life is associated with more chronic disease decades later—diabetes, heart disease, cancer, depression, dementia, and more. These studies aren’t appearing in obscure journals. They’re being published in Science, the BMJ, PNAS, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Nature Communications, and elsewhere. Meanwhile, @tamarhaspel of the @washingtonpost confidently tells us in a recent column: “The real problem with sugar is simply that we like it.” So why the confidence? And what do we do with this remarkable body of new evidence? Ultimately, the question is one we’ve been arguing about for decades: Should we treat sugar as a chronic toxin—or as a benign indulgence that becomes harmful only because it provides excess calories? Is Sugar Toxic? Can It Cause Cancer? CHD? Frailty? Dementia? Read the post on Uncertainty Principles https://t.co/AtduqMgpPK
- Aug 23, 2026
I've never been a fan of the American Heart Association's version of the diet-heart hypothesis. But what if they're right? Shouldn't we all work diligently to lower our LDL by diet? Let's work through the numbers and see what we have to gain. If you're curious about how a public health campaign acknowledging "negligible benefit" for most of us became the foundational proposition of our dietary wisdom, read on... Lowering LDL: Surely, a “Heart-Healthy” Diet is Worth the Effort. Isn’t it? https://t.co/4kyTTE26Il
- Jun 3, 2026
New study offers hope for anorexia nervosa. The first-ever pilot trial of ketogenic therapy for anorexia nervosa was just published. Here's what @GuidoFrank and his research team at @UCSDMedSchool found. 🧵 https://t.co/HxNyuCCpZ0
- Jul 4, 2026
How do GLP-1 drugs cause weight loss? If they work by suppressing appetite or increasing satiety (which I don't buy), the notion that they accomplish that by delaying gastric emptying doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. At least not in the first actual test of the assumption. https://t.co/povnIwW5JE
- May 17, 2026
A new FDA-tracked pill promises to extend dogs' lives by improving their insulin sensitivity and lowering their insulin levels. But if lower insulin is the key to a longer canine life, maybe our dogs shouldn't be eating carb-rich kibble in the first place. The history of longevity trials — in Labrador retrievers, in rhesus monkeys — suggests that what they eat matters more than how much. So why are we waiting for a drug to solve a problem that diet might already answer? https://t.co/4QrC6xHnzb
- Jun 4, 2026
🧐Be sure to join me June 12 at 1:30pm ET for the next talk in the NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture Series, titled “Energy Balance or Fuel Partitioning? A History Lesson in the Science of Obesity Pathogenesis, and Its Implications.” I’ll be joined by Gary Taubes, a science journalist and historian, to discuss how nutrition, fitness, and other factors like genetics influence obesity risk. NIH staff can attend in person in the Masur Auditorium of NIH’s Building 10. The public is invited to attend virtually via webcast. ➡️ https://t.co/FMntApWaOE
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 312 interactions against 122K followers, an engagement rate of 0.256%. Posts are seen about 18K times each, and 1.69% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 15.1% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.07 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 12K interactions, about 39x its own typical post. Only 1 original post have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
- What is gary taubes's engagement rate on X?
- gary taubes (@garytaubes) has an engagement rate of 0.256%, based on the median interactions across 1 original posts from the last 30 days against 121,891 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.256%, gary taubes sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,374 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @garytaubes have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @garytaubes post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.07 posts per day across the measured window.