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Followers
282.7K
Posts
72.8K
Following
1.6K
Account age
19 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$1.6K – $2.6K / sponsored post
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📊 Post performance
362K
Avg views / post
1.3×
Reach vs followers
Dec 2006
On X since
🔥 Top post: Marques’ reach is a function of telling the truth. He didn’t alw · 588.2K 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 · 5 image · 13 text.
Follower / following
176×
Follows 1.6K 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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Tim Cook earned his paycheck
They’re real and they’re spectacular.
So, I've launched a new podcast with @andrewsharp:
Being a liberal with forbidden black friends under a censorious apartheid regime that denied its atrocities is a powerful origin story for Musk’s focus on free speech. So powerful, in fact, that this takeaway shines through a ham-fisted na…
Elon Musk has already made ~$750 million on his Twitter trade, which is approximately double Twitter’s net income for the last 3 years.
It’s pretty popular to write tweets mocking people starting podcasts. It reminds me of people mocking blogs. It’s all elitist gatekeeper BS. The fact the Internet gives opportunity to anyone anywhere is awesome.
Praying for India 🙏
The anti-nuclear movement is up there as one of the most destructive of all-time. The triumph of emotion over rationality, and we haven’t even started to truly pay the price.
From: https://t.co/1oOx77BgNM
Elon Musk is better at interviewing than at being interviewed, which actually makes quite a bit of sense when you think about it.
Actually, executives that criticize China’s governance have their companies taken away and disappear. Ask Jack Ma.
This is a First Amendment issue, as in private companies can do this because of the First Amendment.
*who was in a control group and didn’t receive the vaccine
Pretty staggering how irresponsible this is.
They’re real and they’re spectacular.
So, I've launched a new podcast with @andrewsharp:
Being a liberal with forbidden black friends under a censorious apartheid regime that denied its atrocities is a powerful origin story for Musk’s focus on free speech. So powerful, in fact, that this takeaway shines through a ham-fisted na…
Elon Musk has already made ~$750 million on his Twitter trade, which is approximately double Twitter’s net income for the last 3 years.
It’s pretty popular to write tweets mocking people starting podcasts. It reminds me of people mocking blogs. It’s all elitist gatekeeper BS. The fact the Internet gives opportunity to anyone anywhere is awesome.
Praying for India 🙏
The anti-nuclear movement is up there as one of the most destructive of all-time. The triumph of emotion over rationality, and we haven’t even started to truly pay the price.
From: https://t.co/1oOx77BgNM
Elon Musk is better at interviewing than at being interviewed, which actually makes quite a bit of sense when you think about it.
Actually, executives that criticize China’s governance have their companies taken away and disappear. Ask Jack Ma.
This is a First Amendment issue, as in private companies can do this because of the First Amendment.
*who was in a control group and didn’t receive the vaccine
Pretty staggering how irresponsible this is.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined X in 2006 — 19 years ago.
👁️Averages 362K views per post.
📤Posts about 0× per week.
💬2.84% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated98/100
Excellent
Credibility score
99%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~1.3× of followers engage each post) is around typical for X.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (19+ years old).
- 2.84% engagement — above the ~2.2% typical for a X account this size.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Author/Founder of @stratechery. Host of @ditheringfm @sharptechpod. @notechben for sports. @monkbent on other networks. Home on the Internet.
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