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Followers
17.4K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$97 – $158 / sponsored post
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🧰 Free analysis for Zack Whittaker
📊 Post engagement
170
Avg engagement / post
1%
Engagement vs followers
May 2023
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: New, by me: The Justice Department is prosecuting an American fo · 1.4K likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
16.2 / week
Posts daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
51×
Follows 343 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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In today's this.weekinsecurity.com: OpenAI admits to hacking Hugging Face, millions of cars with hidden alarms vulnerable to hacking, Iran's hacking water and energy systems, Russia's targeting nuclear scientists with an email zero-day, a …
This has been a busy (and wild!) week in cybersecurity, but keeping up can be a challenge. Every Sunday, I wrap up the most pressing and important cyber news you need to know and more in my free weekly newsletter this.weekinsecurity.com so…
Incredibly detailed reporting by @raphae.li et al at Reuters on the OpenAI hack of Hugging Face, revealing new details on how it went down and how it took a week for OpenAI to notice one of its AI models was hacking into the company, citin…
U.S. says Iranian hackers are upping their hacks on American water and energy providers to "cause disruptive effects within the United States." FBI, NSA & CISA say the critical infrastructure breaches are in response to the Iran war (no sh…
Justice Department is dropping the subpoenas served on several NYT reporters seeking the identities of their sources into the Qatari-donated plane that Trump now uses. The subpoenas were an obvious attempt to squash reporting into Trump's …
It's a day ending in "y."
Have a peaceful evening, as much as Theo had a peaceful afternoon asleep, basking in the sun.
Proofpoint says out of ~950 companies surveyed, over one-third of companies that paid a hacker’s ransom were hit with a second extortion demand.
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🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@zackwhittaker.com
The handle is the domain zackwhittaker.com. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real zackwhittaker.com account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
May 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 170 views per post.
📤Posts about 16.2× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🛡️ Audience credibility
95/100
Excellent
Credibility score
99%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~1.0% of followers engage each post) — an active, real 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
Security editor, TechCrunch
Signal: zackwhittaker.1337
My stories: techcrunch.com/author/zack-whittaker
My newsletter/blog: this.weekinsecurity.com
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