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263.9K
Posts
53.8K
Following
9.5K
Account age
17 yrs
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📊 Post performance
142.7K
Avg views / post
54.1%
Reach vs followers
Apr 2009
On X since
🔥 Top post: We're accepting drafts and pitches for reported and personal ess · 250.4K views
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.04 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 0 video · 4 image · 14 text.
Follower / following
28×
Follows 9.5K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
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We're accepting personal essay drafts and pitches for reported personal essays and reading lists. We're looking for pieces on unexpected topics and unique angles. Submissions never close! More on submissions and rates in 🧵
We're accepting personal essay drafts and pitches for reported personal essays and reading lists. We're looking for pieces on unexpected topics and unique angles. More on submissions and rates in 🧵
CALL FOR PITCHES: Longreads wants your words! We take essay submissions, feature pitches, reading list ideas, and other queries, and we pay competitive rates for accepted work. Here’s a 🧵 of what the editors are looking for:
"In the face of these truths, we are reminded that for many people, their bodies are not considered their own." @zoramag https://t.co/N2qLpRRjr7 #longreads
"Kpop has been my candy-colored distraction from the angst of feeling trapped, but it has also, in the person of Mino, rather unexpectedly led me to a glimmer of an answer." @wendyqgan #FineLines (Illustration by @HulloJackie)
"@SteveCarell held up taping of The Office because he refused to be a scab. Each extra moment of discomfort he conveyed to the network, each bit of pay he lost, meant more leverage afforded to the striker." @SorayaRoberts https://t.co/TDKe…
"I believe that gifted editors are rarer than talented reporters. If you have the knack for it, I just wanna say: go for it. I really want to give you a nudge of encouragement in that direction. It’s a wonderful job and journalism needs yo…
"In 2016, @Oxfam's report showed that the wealthiest 62 individuals owned the same amount as the bottom half of the world’s population. This year, that number had dropped to 42: 3.5 dozen people with as much stuff as 3.5 billion." @OliverB…
The @Longreads Best of 2018 series begins! Here’s every No. 1 story from our weekly Top 5 emails this year:
Happy #PrimeDay! "Amazon changed the amount of time workers had to stow an item from six minutes to four minutes and 12 seconds. 'They make it like the Hunger Games,' a former carpenter said. 'That’s what we actually call it.'" @AlanaSemue…
"It is hard to believe something is possible if you have never seen it happen before. Now we’ve seen it happen. Now we know." Twelve #longreads on @Ocasio2018, compiled by @danielleiat:
"@SteveCarell held up taping of The Office because he refused to be a scab. Each extra moment of discomfort he conveyed to the network, each bit of pay he lost, meant more leverage afforded to the striker." @SorayaRoberts https://t.co/TDKe…
"I believe that gifted editors are rarer than talented reporters. If you have the knack for it, I just wanna say: go for it. I really want to give you a nudge of encouragement in that direction. It’s a wonderful job and journalism needs yo…
"In 2016, @Oxfam's report showed that the wealthiest 62 individuals owned the same amount as the bottom half of the world’s population. This year, that number had dropped to 42: 3.5 dozen people with as much stuff as 3.5 billion." @OliverB…
The @Longreads Best of 2018 series begins! Here’s every No. 1 story from our weekly Top 5 emails this year:
Happy #PrimeDay! "Amazon changed the amount of time workers had to stow an item from six minutes to four minutes and 12 seconds. 'They make it like the Hunger Games,' a former carpenter said. 'That’s what we actually call it.'" @AlanaSemue…
"It is hard to believe something is possible if you have never seen it happen before. Now we’ve seen it happen. Now we know." Twelve #longreads on @Ocasio2018, compiled by @danielleiat:
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined X in 2009 — 17 years ago.
👁️Averages 142.7K views per post.
📤Posts about 0× per week.
💬0.39% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated46/100
Fair
Credibility score
69%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 69% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.5× of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (17+ years old).
- 0.39% 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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