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Followers
107.6K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$603 – $980 / sponsored post
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🧰 Free analysis for David Roberts
📊 Post engagement
116
Avg engagement / post
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2023
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: I'm not telling anybody anything new here, but this is the absol · 431 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
85.7 / week
A very active account — posts many times a day.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
36×
Follows 3K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Once again feeling grumpy about Xfinity, I looked into Quantum Fiber. It looks like they offer service at my address, and they boast faster speeds at a cheaper price.
Has anyone used them? I mean I assume the customer service sucks like a…
So many good books being written out in the world and the NYT decides to direct attention to this utterly vapid nepo baby shit.
Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.
Good lord I just wasted 2 hours of my life with Xfinity. Like a sitcom written by Kafka.
Imagine admitting this in public. This guy's bio says he's an "investor" and a "financial philosopher."
Fusion is ready! (to maybe have a power plant going in the 2030, if the federal government gives companies billions more dollars)
Ooooof. I see my recently graduated, unemployed 22yo son in this picture, and I do not like it.
On Monday, I'm going to talk with an expert about *cybersecurity*, specifically, cybersecurity on the US electricity grid. Do we need to worry about Chinese components? Are regulations keeping up with threat? Etc.
Got questions?
Some excellent substantive analysis of what effect the House-passed transportation bill would actually have on emissions, EVs, miles traveled, etc.
Some sensible recommendations on how to do better transmission planning in an age of large loads.
This post from @revkin.bsky.social has, among other things, a series of videos of he & I that go all the way back to 2010!
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@volts.wtf
The handle is the domain volts.wtf. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real volts.wtf 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 116 views per post.
📤Posts about 85.7× per week.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.
🛡️ Audience credibility
58/100
Fair
Credibility score
81%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 81% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- 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
I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
🔀 Audience overlap
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