@carlzimmer - Twitter Account Stats
Published December 9, 2023
Account Summary
Bio
@nytimes columnist, author https://t.co/kFEXJadgqf & @Carl_Zimmer@mastodon.social & https://t.co/fH5SZo1Q11 & https://t.co/x4g8lOZcci…
Followers
285,852
Following
2,384
Tweets
65,220
Listed
5,865
Location
Connecticut
Verified
No
Followers Analysis
(based on followers sample)
Verified
Count
923
Percentage
0.91%
Protected
Count
10,540
Percentage
10.44%
Age
Average Account Age
9 years
Bios
Without Bio
31,537
With Bio
69,460
% With Bio
68.77%
% Without Bio
31.23%
Wordcloud of Bios
Top 10 Keywords in Bios
| Word | Frequency |
|---|---|
| science | 6,274 |
| phd | 3,831 |
| health | 2,834 |
| sheher | 2,826 |
| research | 2,565 |
| views | 2,437 |
| student | 2,432 |
| writer | 2,139 |
| scientist | 2,000 |
| university | 1,980 |
Top 10 Hashtags in Bios
| Hashtag | Frequency |
|---|---|
| #scicomm | 393 |
| #blm | 304 |
| #resist | 269 |
| #science | 239 |
| #blacklivesmatter | 211 |
| #ai | 139 |
| #39canimals | 134 |
| #firstgen | 97 |
| #rstats | 91 |
| #womeninstem | 84 |
Top 10 Followers by Follower Count
| Username | Followers Count | Friends Count | Tweet Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| nytimes | 55,080,745 | 872 | 506,240 |
| JohnCena | 14,102,315 | 571,929 | 7,450 |
| rahulkanwal | 4,471,329 | 4,520 | 46,796 |
| revistasuper | 3,972,830 | 260 | 65,293 |
| NateSilver538 | 3,443,862 | 1,574 | 38,914 |
| jaketapper | 3,163,902 | 10,965 | 266,941 |
| cmrondon | 2,917,321 | 3,386 | 177,780 |
| benlandis | 2,849,271 | 1,517,708 | 1,125 |
| DanaPerino | 2,358,435 | 9,737 | 43,709 |
| NaturePortfolio | 2,281,710 | 2,318 | 21,081 |
Top 10 Followers by Following Count
| Username | Friends Count | Followers Count | Tweet Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6BillionPeople | 4,024,668 | 2,035,339 | 183,298 |
| benlandis | 1,517,708 | 2,849,271 | 1,125 |
| SinghLions | 1,431,686 | 1,334,596 | 33,929 |
| djkingassassin | 1,374,932 | 474,353 | 137,836 |
| Iraqesque | 955,769 | 582,724 | 54,193 |
| EdKrassen | 606,787 | 918,366 | 52,697 |
| DaveVescio | 576,846 | 539,356 | 15,121 |
| JohnCena | 571,929 | 14,102,315 | 7,450 |
| BeefEnt | 430,816 | 145,170 | 518,106 |
| soledadobrien | 422,434 | 1,318,221 | 124,891 |
Top 10 Followers by Tweet Count
| Username | Tweets Count | Followers Count | Friends Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| _RedFrog | 1,396,663 | 3,916 | 1,432 |
| jondknight | 1,331,619 | 777 | 4,893 |
| kenkircher1 | 1,242,822 | 2,964 | 1,478 |
| sddphoto | 1,192,287 | 7,178 | 6,960 |
| NatioScourge | 1,174,407 | 2,855 | 4,998 |
| washumom | 1,029,987 | 16,043 | 17,639 |
| MSMWatchdog2013 | 1,028,213 | 21,655 | 23,567 |
| ElkeHollings | 1,020,193 | 2,430 | 5,000 |
| KatCapps | 1,009,056 | 40,311 | 41,870 |
| rhonda_harbison | 882,576 | 45,561 | 31,024 |
Top 10 Followers by Listed Count
| Username | Listed Count | Friends Count | Followers Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| nytimes | 217,926 | 872 | 55,080,745 |
| NateSilver538 | 34,086 | 1,574 | 3,443,862 |
| JohnCena | 31,681 | 571,929 | 14,102,315 |
| arstechnica | 27,445 | 1,323 | 1,163,028 |
| jaketapper | 25,079 | 10,965 | 3,163,902 |
| maggieNYT | 19,030 | 6,006 | 1,656,488 |
| TEDchris | 15,963 | 991 | 1,537,628 |
| mattcutts | 15,656 | 1,417 | 498,915 |
| thenation | 13,992 | 9,025 | 1,246,542 |
| JoyAnnReid | 13,211 | 7,524 | 2,052,190 |
Tweets Analysis
Total Tweets Analysed
3,223
Earliest Tweet
2021-08-08
Latest Tweet
2023-04-20
Tweets Covering
620 days
Types of Tweets
Number of Retweets
1,852
57% of total
Number of Original tweets
955
29% of total
Number of tweets that were Quotes
98
3% of total
Number of tweets that were Replies
318
9% of total
Number of tweets that contain Hashtags
209
6% of total
Number of tweets that contain Mentions
2,347
72% of total
Top Tweets by Retweet Count
| ID | Text | Retweet count |
|---|---|---|
| 1475452486005800969 | The biologist Edward O. Wilson died Sunday. Here is my @nytimes obituary https://t.co/076lgFdlL9 | 905 |
| 1454184147929509902 | Unvaccinated people who had previously recovered from a coronavirus infection were five times as likely to get Covid as people who had received both shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna … | 763 |
| 1457691964191674370 | Covid hospitalization in US by vaccination status https://t.co/dfrsd6DLoh https://t.co/5lh3uCDHPO | 685 |
| 1434146251549913089 | A report from Idaho’s swamped ICU’s. “All of the ICU coronavirus patients were generally healthy people who simply didn’t get vaccinated.” https://t.co/WY5TRfUyW2 | 674 |
| 1504940438142259200 | It’s 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted. https://t.co/4mdhfX99fP | 648 |
| 1430674706739367939 | “More people in Florida are catching the coronavirus, being hospitalized and dying of Covid-19 now than at any previous point in the pandemic.” https://t.co/Rkz9wS1mq3 | 379 |
| 1494331192706940936 | Now that a strong association between the Epstein-Barr virus and multiple sclerosis has emerged from epidemiology, scientists may have found the link: antibodies against viral proteins also react against proteins … | 338 |
| 1445446490353111040 | Thirty seconds of a cough cloud. https://t.co/JA9ujlXspj https://t.co/mVftRGS3Bb | 301 |
| 1538880915518242825 | People keep telling me that Covid will get become less of a worry because viruses inevitably evolve to be nicer. Me: I'd like you to meet my little friend, myxoma … | 294 |
| 1433172506236571651 | I didn't think these fungi, which turn insects into zombies, could be any more remarkable. Turns out I was wrong. Some have gone through an astonishing evolutionary transformation, changing them … | 279 |
Top Reply Tweets
| ID | Text | Reply count |
|---|---|---|
| 1430674706739367939 | “More people in Florida are catching the coronavirus, being hospitalized and dying of Covid-19 now than at any previous point in the pandemic.” https://t.co/Rkz9wS1mq3 | 131 |
| 1454184147929509902 | Unvaccinated people who had previously recovered from a coronavirus infection were five times as likely to get Covid as people who had received both shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna … | 100 |
| 1478212690292129802 | New Jersey’s hospitalization rate is at the highest level of the entire pandemic https://t.co/hooENRY2Fu https://t.co/v9sZFbMNif | 77 |
| 1538880915518242825 | People keep telling me that Covid will get become less of a worry because viruses inevitably evolve to be nicer. Me: I'd like you to meet my little friend, myxoma … | 72 |
| 1434146251549913089 | A report from Idaho’s swamped ICU’s. “All of the ICU coronavirus patients were generally healthy people who simply didn’t get vaccinated.” https://t.co/WY5TRfUyW2 | 67 |
| 1504940438142259200 | It’s 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted. https://t.co/4mdhfX99fP | 60 |
| 1472689306493984772 | Another biological mystery in the woods today. Any idea what these marble-sized things are? https://t.co/GCQVIEbUKe | 58 |
| 1509282555937402884 | I wrote about the long, strange trip of ivermectin--plus the importance of well-designed trials. https://t.co/3wMyBQCgsH | 51 |
| 1484251190028349440 | An odd science journalism experience: writing about Omicron while playing host to Omicron. (So far I’m fine.) https://t.co/8VTK06fhzA | 50 |
| 1475452486005800969 | The biologist Edward O. Wilson died Sunday. Here is my @nytimes obituary https://t.co/076lgFdlL9 | 49 |
Top Quote Tweets
| ID | Text | Quote count |
|---|---|---|
| 1475452486005800969 | The biologist Edward O. Wilson died Sunday. Here is my @nytimes obituary https://t.co/076lgFdlL9 | 198 |
| 1504940438142259200 | It’s 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted. https://t.co/4mdhfX99fP | 170 |
| 1457691964191674370 | Covid hospitalization in US by vaccination status https://t.co/dfrsd6DLoh https://t.co/5lh3uCDHPO | 137 |
| 1430674706739367939 | “More people in Florida are catching the coronavirus, being hospitalized and dying of Covid-19 now than at any previous point in the pandemic.” https://t.co/Rkz9wS1mq3 | 98 |
| 1434146251549913089 | A report from Idaho’s swamped ICU’s. “All of the ICU coronavirus patients were generally healthy people who simply didn’t get vaccinated.” https://t.co/WY5TRfUyW2 | 80 |
| 1454184147929509902 | Unvaccinated people who had previously recovered from a coronavirus infection were five times as likely to get Covid as people who had received both shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna … | 79 |
| 1437418720566071305 | Back in 2013, I wrote about de-extinction, the idea of bringing species back from extinction. Eight years later, a company is launching to engineer elephants with woolly mammoth genes. Here’s … | 73 |
| 1481696078353375245 | New York State rates of hospitalization for unvaccinated (blue) and vaccinated (red). The black line shows that vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization remains strong now that Omicron is dominant. https://t.co/34a4zDfFkL https://t.co/hsgYUtQEyM | 70 |
| 1590000811043872768 | Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Virginia animals. "Human commensals like squirrels, and raccoons had high seroprevalence, ranging between 62%-71%, and sites with high human use had three times higher seroprevalence than … | 70 |
| 1478794380169388041 | A strange story about superbugs, hedgehogs, and evolution 1/9 https://t.co/RGV1TaTzkg | 67 |
Top Tweets by Like Count
| ID | Text | Like count |
|---|---|---|
| 1475452486005800969 | The biologist Edward O. Wilson died Sunday. Here is my @nytimes obituary https://t.co/076lgFdlL9 | 2,668 |
| 1457691964191674370 | Covid hospitalization in US by vaccination status https://t.co/dfrsd6DLoh https://t.co/5lh3uCDHPO | 1,902 |
| 1434146251549913089 | A report from Idaho’s swamped ICU’s. “All of the ICU coronavirus patients were generally healthy people who simply didn’t get vaccinated.” https://t.co/WY5TRfUyW2 | 1,467 |
| 1454184147929509902 | Unvaccinated people who had previously recovered from a coronavirus infection were five times as likely to get Covid as people who had received both shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna … | 1,372 |
| 1452122579137880064 | President anti-vaxxer – Jair Bolsonaro is accused of crimes against humanity in Brazil https://t.co/XyxbIAxEZ7 | 1,341 |
| 1504940438142259200 | It’s 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted. https://t.co/4mdhfX99fP | 1,029 |
| 1538880915518242825 | People keep telling me that Covid will get become less of a worry because viruses inevitably evolve to be nicer. Me: I'd like you to meet my little friend, myxoma … | 982 |
| 1433172506236571651 | I didn't think these fungi, which turn insects into zombies, could be any more remarkable. Turns out I was wrong. Some have gone through an astonishing evolutionary transformation, changing them … | 909 |
| 1445446490353111040 | Thirty seconds of a cough cloud. https://t.co/JA9ujlXspj https://t.co/mVftRGS3Bb | 891 |
| 1494331192706940936 | Now that a strong association between the Epstein-Barr virus and multiple sclerosis has emerged from epidemiology, scientists may have found the link: antibodies against viral proteins also react against proteins … | 752 |
Languages Used
Top Hashtags
| Hashtag | Count |
|---|---|
| #aaasmtg | 1 |
| #aaas2023 | 1 |
| #novavax | 1 |
| #plosbiology | 1 |
| #deltacron | 1 |
| #onewordbetterthantwo | 1 |
| #delta | 1 |
| #behindthepaper | 1 |
Top Mentions
| Hashtag | Count |
|---|---|
| @nytimes | 27 |
| @rebeccadrobbins | 22 |
| @benjmueller | 10 |
| @noahweiland | 9 |
| @emilyanthes | 8 |
| @statnews | 8 |
| @apoorva_nyc | 8 |
| @thedailybeast | 7 |
| @snolen | 7 |
| @wsj | 6 |
Wordcloud of Tweets
Emoji Analysis
Emojis Used
| Emoji | Count | Emoji Text |
|---|---|---|
| 🧵 | 1 | thread |
| 🎉 | 1 | party_popper |
| 🤔 | 1 | thinking_face |
| 😬 | 1 | grimacing_face |
Emoji Groups
| Emoji Group | Count |
|---|---|
| Activities | 2 |
| Smileys & Emotion | 2 |
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