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Followers
3.24M
Posts
18.2K
Following
290
Account age
15 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$18.2K – $29.5K / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
📊 Post performance
2.41M
Avg views / post
74.4%
Reach vs followers
Aug 2010
On X since
🔥 Top post: Starlink announced a $5/month plan that gives unlimited usage at · 15.57M views
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.07 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 0 video · 2 image · 16 text.
Follower / following
11.2K×
Follows 290 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Verification
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A paid X Premium (Blue) verified account.
Recent posts
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I have never seen it expressed exactly like that, but I wholeheartedly endorse it:
Feedback beats planning.
My plea at Meta was “No grand plans, follow the gradient of user value”.
@rubyrangerr What? This is impressive research work!
Surprising stat — general anesthesia for healthy patients has five times the fatality rate of bungee jumping or skydiving.
“Coding” was never the source of value, and people shouldn’t get overly attached to it. Problem solving is the core skill. The discipline and precision demanded by traditional programming will remain valuable transferable attributes, but t…
The AI behavior guardrails that are set up with prompt engineering and filtering should be public — the creators should proudly stand behind their vision of what is best for society and how they crystallized it into commands and code.
I s…
Be an Open Source Absolutist!
It is hard to overstate how much value Open Source Software has added to the world, and how broadly empowering it is.
Operating systems, development tools, core libraries, and critical applications – a great…
@elonmusk I may be reading this incorrectly, but if you are actually deleting inactive accounts and all their historic tweets, I would STRONGLY urge you to reconsider.
Letting people know how many “active” followers they have is good info…
Last night I downloaded Quake III Arena on Steam. I always looked back at it as my favorite Id game, but it had been many years since I had actually played it. There are a few polish things that I would nitpick today, but it was like dropp…
I still get nervous even for other people’s rocket launches. The knowledge that all your work could go up in a giant explosion is a special kind of frisson.
But for everyone that has ever drawn a spark of inspiration from visions of human…
From a DM, just in case anyone else needs to hear this.
I resigned from Meta, and my internal post got leaked to the press, resulting in some fragmented quotes. Here is the full thing:
From a DM, just in case anyone else needs to hear this.
I resigned from Meta, and my internal post got leaked to the press, resulting in some fragmented quotes. Here is the full thing:
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined X in 2010 — 15 years ago.
👁️Averages 2.41M views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
💬0.53% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 1M Followers for passing 1M followers.
🛡️ Audience credibility
69/100
Good
- Est. 85% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.7× of followers engage each post) is around typical for X.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (15+ years old).
- 0.53% engagement — below the ~10.8% typical for this size.
Est. authentic audience
85%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
AGI at Keen Technologies, former CTO Oculus VR, Founder Id Software and Armadillo Aerospace
🔀 Audience overlap
EstimatedEstimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.
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