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Jelani Cobb

Jelani Cobb

Mastodon @jelaniya@journa.host
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Followers
13.9K
Account age
3 yrs
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Known for

I was on Amtrak a few months ago when a 60-something man in a track suit got on board. After a few minutes I recognized it was Michael Spinks. Crazy. I went over and told him how many of his fights I’d watched coming up. Last night I was on Amtrak and none other than Carl Lewis sat down across from me. Apparently, I’m channeling legendary athletes of the 1980s?693 views I was on Amtrak a few months ago when a 60-something man in a track suit got on board. After a few minutes I recognized it was Michael Spinks. Crazy. I went over and told him how many of his fights I’d watched coming up. Last night I was on Amtrak and none other than Carl Lewis sat down across from me. Apparently, I’m channeling legendary athletes of the 1980s? Throwing a party and inviting everyone else who was cut from the AP curriculum. It’s gonna be hot.679 views Throwing a party and inviting everyone else who was cut from the AP curriculum. It’s gonna be hot.

📊 Post engagement

250
Avg engagement / post
1.8%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: An open letter from 200+ African American Studies professors reg · 736 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.65 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
387×
Follows 36 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post An open letter from 200+ African American Studies professors regarding Florida’s rejection of the AP pilot course. https://medium.com/@afamprofshighered/open-letter-in-defense-of-ap-african-american-studies-e61768fb8f9c ★ 736
Harry Belafonte was the standard. Quite simply that. ★ 88 Hugely important work by The Trace here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/04/11/sig-sauer-p320-fires-on-own/ ★ 49 https://www.lawyerscommittee.org/legacy-civil-rights-leaders-officially-endorse-the-freedom-to-learn-campaign/ ★ 32 “There is, in this world, an ambivalent space reserved for revolutionaries who die in their own beds and rappers who die of natural causes.” I wrote about the 50th anniversary of hip hop’s existence and how many of us are not here to cele… ★ 77 Really proud of this collaboration with AppleTV for Black History Month. Available now! https://www.instagram.com/reel/CoNT7G_gV3a/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= ★ 96 Throwing a party and inviting everyone else who was cut from the AP curriculum. It’s gonna be hot. ★ 679 About to hit 10,000 steps for the day… almost entirely from walking around the concourse at DTW trying to kill time during 4 hours of flight delays. ★ 58 Raise your hand if you do NOT have any classified documents in your basement. ★ 355 Always happy to talk with the great Margaret Sullivan. Here we are discussing the state of Journalism on Audie Cornish’s new podcast “The Assignment.” https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__cnn.it_3Wk3y0S&d=DwMFaQ&c=009klHSC… ★ 60 I’m going to ride daily until Jordan shows up. ★ 80 I was on Amtrak a few months ago when a 60-something man in a track suit got on board. After a few minutes I recognized it was Michael Spinks. Crazy. I went over and told him how many of his fights I’d watched coming up. Last night I was o… ★ 693

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
journa.host
A journalists server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
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 250 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.7× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated
86/100
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 (~1.8% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
  • 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

Dean of Columbia Journalism School, Staff Writer @ the New Yorker. Queens native.

🔀 Audience overlap

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