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Followers
63.7K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$357 – $579 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
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📊 Post engagement
275
Avg engagement / post
0.4%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2023
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: Coming tomorrow: the most masculine Hard Fork episode ever · 745 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.55 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
422×
Follows 151 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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The NYT Magazine asked me and @caseynewton.bsky.social to open their AI issue by talking about how we use AI, why it's not going away, and how you can't be a serious critic if you're in denial about how useful it is. Bluesky's gonna love t…
It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show:
-- A hard look at Glazegate, and why it's bad when AI models are too nice
-- I got scanned by a Worldcoin orb
-- And @pjvogt.bsky.social joins us for a new segment about what's going on in our…
My new column is drawing rave reviews like “go fuck yourself,” “die, loser” and more! Take a look and add yours to the pile!
Some news: I'm writing a book about AGI!
This has been a while in the making, very excited to front-burner it for a while. I think what's happening in AI today is the most important and exciting story in the world, bar none, and I can't i…
It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show:
• Grok 3 is here, and it's...woke?
• An interview with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev about whether we're becoming a nation of gamblers
• And I build Casey a hot tub time machine using AI
www.nytim…
It's Hard Fork Friday! This week's show is a Valentine's Day spectacular!
• What happened at the big AI summit in Paris
• Is AI safety dead?
• How our producer Rachel uses AI to find love
• And Hinge CEO Justin McLeod on the AI-filled fu…
I spent a week testing Operator, OpenAI's new AI agent that can browse the web and take actions on your behalf. It ordered me dog food, booked a haircut, took online surveys for cash, and more.
Spooky stuff! Even spookier: it registered m…
It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show:
• A DeepSeek DeepDive with the great @jordanschneider.bsky.social, who explains where DeepSeek sits in China's AI ecosystem
• We try OpenAI's new AI agent, Operator
• And choo choo, it's the H…
It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show:
• TikTok is both dead and alive, Schrödinger's app
• How tech CEOs are trying to do business with Trump
• Memecoins are back, are you rich yet?
• And @chrislhayes.bsky.social joins to talk abo…
I wrote about a new AI evaluation called "Humanity's Last Exam," a collection of 3,000 questions submitted by leading academics to try to stump leading AI models, which mostly find today's college-level tests too easy.
www.nytimes.com/202…
It's Hard Fork Friday! This week:
• TikTok ban v12 final final USE THIS ONE
• HuggingFace's @sashamtl.bsky.social joins to talk about the environmental impact of AI
• And finally, put on your gold chains and pop some Zyns, it's time for M…
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@kevinroose.com
The handle is the domain kevinroose.com. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real kevinroose.com account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
Apr 2023
An early adopter from the invite-only beta (before the Feb 2024 public launch) — an original, established account.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 275 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.6× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🛡️ Audience credibility
81/100
Excellent
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.4% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Bluesky.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
🔀 Audience overlap
EstimatedEstimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.
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