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Followers
1.3K
Account age
2 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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🧰 Free analysis for Ben Taels
📊 Post engagement
6
Avg engagement / post
0.4%
Engagement vs followers
Feb 2024
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: If players can use things like health kits, etc while in their i · 11 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
16.9 / week
Posts daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.6×
Follows 2.3K back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Look at your different control methods & see if there is value on one that can be transferred to another.
A Fortnite example is that the controller had a button to swap between the harvester & the last weapon. The keyboard selected the …
Backrooms was ok I guess? To me it felt like a vaguely spooky YouTube video stretched out to film length. I guess I expected more than that from the positive reviews I had seen? It unfortunately felt quite shallow and superficial to me.
I find my attention just completely slides off the way GenAI writes.
That style of writing is so strongly associated with inaccurate and empty information (even before GenAI) that my brain just doesn't want to process it.
It's like ad/…
Sometimes UI is talked about as if it is a layer on top of "the game". This can often lead to it being treated as somewhat of a necessary evil and/or afterthought.
However, if you treat UI as part of the game and plan with it in mind fro…
Behold! Fresh carrots from the garden!
With metrics you may identify a type of play behaviour that engages players more than another. This can help tune the game.
But correlation is not causation & people choosing to play a certain way may engage differently than people you en…
This is a serious issue for competitive games. Most players will pretty much plateau in skill. But have an expectation they will continue to grow in rank, etc as they compete.
So people will feel a game has made them be "stuck in the tre…
youtu.be/5iln6fkwJOU?...
I am super late on this I know, but Obsession is a very good horror film thanks to the talent of Inde Navarrette.
I don't remember the last time I saw such intense and unnerving physical control and transformations as she pulls off in th…
If you need to send verification code emails for whatever reason putting the number also in the subject line and making it large and stand out from the surrounding text are both helpful.
Test them to make sure it is very easy to select, c…
Focus on simplistic "impact" as a job performance metric creates a work culture where people who support or facilitate others are deeply under valued.
How do you recognize supportive and foundational work in your company?
How do you enc…
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@bentaels.taels.net
The handle is the domain bentaels.taels.net. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real bentaels.taels.net account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
Feb 2024
Joined after Bluesky opened to the public — a settled account with a real history.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2024 — 2 years ago.
👁️Averages 6 views per post.
📤Posts about 16.9× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
47/100
Fair
Credibility score
64%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 64% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.4% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Bluesky.
- Follows 2.3K accounts — more than its own followers — a common follow-for-follow / bot pattern.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Kiwi, Dad, Human Factors Psychology PhD, & Games User Experience Research.
Director of Intended Experience: https://intendedexperience.nz/
Formerly Epic Games, Player Research, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Te Manatū Waka, & Hamilton Zoo.
🔀 Audience overlap
EstimatedEstimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.
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