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Followers
48.7K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$273 – $443 / sponsored post
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Known for
📊 Post engagement
120
Avg engagement / post
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2023
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account · 551 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
8 / week
Posts daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 8 text · 4 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
33×
Follows 1.5K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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✅ Domain-verified
@simonwillison.net
The handle is the domain simonwillison.net. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real simonwillison.net 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 120 views per post.
📤Posts about 8× 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 (~0.2% 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
Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
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