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6.8K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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Known for
54 views
You never know when or where you'll encounter Boston's legendary Keytar Bear. But man alive, when you do, it turns a bad day into a good day and a good day into an AWESOME one. #keytarbear
39 views
A modern angle on the classic "do we open our presents on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Morning?" question. #playdate
30 views
I wish more phone makers were putting this much effort into making their devices work better as _phones._ Every time I need customer service, I'm glad I have a Pixel.
📊 Post engagement
42
Avg engagement / post
0.6%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: As I said this morning on Boston Public Radio: Bytedance's requi · 68 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.8 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
61×
Follows 112 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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FINALLY found the 4K streaming camera I misplaced last month! As I suspected, it got shoved in a bag and stashed haphazardly when I needed to quickly make room in my office for some contractors.
As usual, deep cleaning of my office only se…
"The Fabelmans" looks like an OK film, and Spielberg's hasn't made a meh movie in decades. I'm just struggling a bit with the title. It's one degree short of "The Gonnadirectahitsharkmoviemans." And the Child Steve character's name is "One…
After three or four years of owning one, I have finally begun to use my Instant Pot as something more than awesome rice cooker. Last night's experiment was making sauce (from scratch) and pasta in a single pot. Not bad! Flavor wasn't as ri…
Ordered something on Amazon yesterday which arrived early that same evening.
On the one hand, I instinctively suspect that (1) this can only be possible by exploiting existing problems in our society and (2) it creates new ones.
On the o…
You never know when or where you'll encounter Boston's legendary Keytar Bear. But man alive, when you do, it turns a bad day into a good day and a good day into an AWESOME one. #keytarbear
A couple of contractors are doing a little work inside my house today. The nature of the work means I can just go about my day without much disruption.
This must be what it's like to have houseguests if you're a really, really bad host. I'…
Q: And how are you taking advantage of your 55" 4K HDR Dolby home theater today, Andy?
A: I'm watching a stranger as he figures out how to write code for an extremely niche forty year old minicomputer with a one-of-a-kind OS. #HELLORLD
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I wish more phone makers were putting this much effort into making their devices work better as _phones._ Every time I need customer service, I'm glad I have a Pixel.
A modern angle on the classic "do we open our presents on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Morning?" question. #playdate
I'm on Boston Public Radio at 12:30 today! On the docket: the US government escalates its beef with TikTok; facial recognition tech was built for abuses and whaddya know, it's being abused; and stealing stuff from relatives' walls during h…
Time for a legit favorite holiday tradition: reading Mark Evanier's Mel Tormé story when he reblogs it. https://www.newsfromme.com/2021/12/20/my-xmas-story-4-2/
You never know when or where you'll encounter Boston's legendary Keytar Bear. But man alive, when you do, it turns a bad day into a good day and a good day into an AWESOME one. #keytarbear
A couple of contractors are doing a little work inside my house today. The nature of the work means I can just go about my day without much disruption.
This must be what it's like to have houseguests if you're a really, really bad host. I'…
Q: And how are you taking advantage of your 55" 4K HDR Dolby home theater today, Andy?
A: I'm watching a stranger as he figures out how to write code for an extremely niche forty year old minicomputer with a one-of-a-kind OS. #HELLORLD
htt…
I wish more phone makers were putting this much effort into making their devices work better as _phones._ Every time I need customer service, I'm glad I have a Pixel.
A modern angle on the classic "do we open our presents on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Morning?" question. #playdate
I'm on Boston Public Radio at 12:30 today! On the docket: the US government escalates its beef with TikTok; facial recognition tech was built for abuses and whaddya know, it's being abused; and stealing stuff from relatives' walls during h…
Time for a legit favorite holiday tradition: reading Mark Evanier's Mel Tormé story when he reblogs it. https://www.newsfromme.com/2021/12/20/my-xmas-story-4-2/
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
twit.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 42 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.8× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated72/100
Good
Credibility score
94%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 94% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.6% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Intermittendly-beloved tech journalist. Tech news contributor to WGBH Boston Public Radio. Podcaster at TWIT.tv and Relay.fm. Formerly a longtime columnist at The Chicago Sun-Times and Macworld.
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