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Followers

191.5K

Posts

90.4K

Following

954

Account age

18 yrs

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Opinion | The ABC has bent the knee to Gina Rinehart after a well-resourced tantrum. If that's all it takes, should it even be making comedy?
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2.8K views Opinion | The ABC has bent the knee to Gina Rinehart after a well-resourced tantrum. If that's all it takes, should it even be making comedy? https://t.co/6ubtemdxSn

1K views Wish we had our own Count Binface? Antony Green explains why we don't. https://t.co/3pqM6Y3MqN

📊 Post performance

1.6K

Avg views / post

0.8%

Reach vs followers

May 2008

On X since

🔥 Top post: Opinion | Crikey readers did NOT hold back when responding to Be · 8.4K views

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

67.8 / week

A very active account — multiple posts a day, an always-on feed.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 0 video · 2 image · 16 text.

Follower / following

201×

Follows 954 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Opinion | Crikey readers did NOT hold back when responding to Bernard Keane's proposal to weight votes in favour of young people. 8.4K❤ 1

Podcast | Jane Gilmore has spent a decade trying to fix sensationalised media reporting on men's violence. The Ralph Carr case shows how little has changed. 803❤ 4🔁 2 Opinion | Wowsers! Can we talk about something other than Anthony Albanese's bad "melons" joke? Perhaps something that matters? 1.9K❤ 5🔁 1 Sources have told Crikey's correspondent-at-large Rick Morton they are nervous about asking too many questions due to funding pressures. 2.1K❤ 5🔁 2 Opinion | The tectonic shift in One Nation's appeal has been decades in the making. Blame an institutional collapse on the centre right, writes John Birmingham. 2.4K❤ 4🔁 2 Opinion | Whether it's climate, defence or migration, young people will bear the consequences of decisions made today. They should have greater say in them, writes Bernard Keane. 2.5K❤ 8🔁 1 Chinese-Australians took to social media to express their frustration at the wording of a census question regarding their country of birth. 1.8K❤ 4🔁 2 How scared is ASIO of naming China as a threat? Ask the Kiwis. 1.3K❤ 1 Opinion | Should younger people's votes be worth more? Crikey readers have their say. 1.1K Opinion | Pauline Hanson and Angus Taylor can't stop expressing how disgusted they are at Albanese's melons joke. It's a shame that disgust doesn't extend to the scourge of gambling advertising... 2K❤ 13🔁 4 Elon Musk has landed an Australian court win against the eSafety commissioner in X's latest legal skirmish with the regulator. 1.2K Jacinta Allan has quit politics. Time to enjoy some of the simpler things. 1.6K🔁 1 Tired of winning? Americans are abandoning the search for work and consumers face persistent inflation under Donald Trump. 1.3K

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined X in 2008 — 18 years ago.

👁️Averages 1.6K views per post.

📤Posts about 67.8× per week.

💬0% engagement rate.

🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

37/100

Low Credibility score

66%

Mixed Real audience

Medium Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 66% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
Low engagement (~0.8% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
Established account (18+ years old).
0% engagement — below the ~14.4% typical for this size.

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

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