Tim Urban✓

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Followers

900.6K

Posts

8.2K

Following

920

Account age

13 yrs

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Known for

4.07M views Good day to remember just how big that green tree is

3.6M views New year, new you

📊 Post performance

9.36M

Avg views / post

10.4×

Reach vs followers

Mar 2013

On X since

🔥 Top post: My book What's Our Problem? is now available. The book introduc · 64.18M views

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.08 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly images

Recent: 1 video · 10 image · 7 text.

Follower / following

979×

Follows 920 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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🔥 Top post My book What's Our Problem? is now available. The book introduces a new framework for thinking about our chaotic political environment. With 303 drawings, it's a toolbox for understanding our societies, our group dynamics, and our own minds. Get it here: 64.18M❤ 15.5K🔁 3.3K

I still cannot believe that I can: - look at a world map and tap anywhere to zoom in at street level - instantly access any song, book, movie, tv show, or podcast ever made - have any conceivable question and get an immediate answer or … 16.24M❤ 53.2K🔁 6.5K

Good day to remember just how big that green tree is 4.07M❤ 58.6K🔁 6.8K Daily reminder to be thankful there's no one above us in the food chain 12.35M❤ 281.3K🔁 16.4K Graphic designers now just open a blank document, make the font size 80, type the company name, and that’s the logo. 9.36M❤ 280.8K🔁 25.4K

New year, new you 3.6M❤ 42K🔁 6.7K

▶ In case Twitter is making you anxious, here’s a man making a traditional teapot. [tiktok: zishacraftsman] ❤ 72.9K🔁 12.2K Pro tip: When you wake up in the middle of the night, the worst way to fall back asleep is to open Twitter ❤ 46.9K🔁 3.3K Imagine what ancient people thought when something like this happened ❤ 51.9K🔁 5.8K

Population density thread because you and I both know you have nothing better to do. Let's start with this cool way to visualize population density, by @undertheraedar. The height of each spike displays the population density in that loca… ❤ 58.3K🔁 10.6K

It's super important to support marginalized people in places where it's popular to do so ❤ 41.7K🔁 5.8K “If you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.” Montesquieu said this 300 years ago. We’re… ❤ 51K🔁 8.4K

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined X in 2013 — 13 years ago.

👁️Averages 9.36M views per post.

📤Posts about 0.1× per week.

💬9.23% engagement rate.

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

🛡️ Audience credibility

98/100

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 (~10.4× of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
Verified account.
Established account (13+ years old).
9.23% engagement — around average for this size on X.

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