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Followers

230K

Posts

19.7K

Following

1.3K

Account age

10 yrs

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Known for

1.8M views I think this pub should be rebuilt brick for brick, exactly as it was.

📊 Post performance

1.8M

Avg views / post

7.7×

Reach vs followers

Feb 2016

On X since

🔥 Top post: I think this pub should be rebuilt brick for brick, exactly as i · 1.8M views

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.08 / week

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

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 0 video · 1 image · 17 text.

Follower / following

184×

Follows 1.3K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Verification

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Recent posts

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🔥 Top post I think this pub should be rebuilt brick for brick, exactly as it was. 1.8M❤ 23.9K🔁 3K

An Irish friend says that when the news of the Queen’s death came through, ‘I was drinking in an Irish Republican Socialist pub here in Dublin… To a man & a woman everyone raised a glass to a woman who loved Ireland & did so much t… ❤ 22.7K🔁 3.8K Waiting for takeoff with a screaming baby, mortified parents & loads of disapproving passengers. They should lighten up: we’ve all been there. My baby daughters yelled on takeoff & landing, my son once projectile-vomited on a man a… ❤ 21.8K🔁 1K George Orwell, 1984: ‘The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.’ ❤ 68.4K🔁 16.1K On the anniversary of Tiananmen there are always people who tweet that reports of a massacre are the invention of the Western media. I was there, I saw it happen & I counted 40 people killed in front of my eyes. And my team filmed it… ❤ 38.5K🔁 8.5K Disagree with me by all means — everyone has a right to their opinion. But do it courteously. If you insult me or threaten me or swear at me, I’ll block you. I get nutters, obsessives and extremists raving at me all the time, and each o… ❤ 25.5K🔁 1.3K Putin puts his nuclear deterrent forces on high alert. This is the kind of moment we’ve feared almost my entire life. And why is he doing it? Because his wholly unnecessary invasion of Ukraine doesn’t seem to be going to plan. ❤ 49.2K🔁 9.1K Relatively little attention has been given to the extraordinary threats against Sweden and Finland by the Russian foreign ministry, warning of the consequences if they decide to join NATO. And we thought that kind of thing was over & … ❤ 42.9K🔁 9.2K Vladimir Putin says it’s necessary to invade Ukraine to ‘deNazify’ it. Ukraine’s President Zelensky is Jewish, and members of his family died in the Holocaust. ❤ 32.6K🔁 6.7K Just a quick constitutional reminder for the BBC’s 100th anniversary: it belongs to the people of the UK. It doesn’t belong to the government. And, contrary to what the current Culture Secretary seems to think, it isn’t state-funded. ❤ 30.6K🔁 7K In case you didn’t see it, the Washington Post’s Trump fact-checkers say that in his 4 years as President, Donald Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims. That’s roughly 20 every single day. ❤ 30.5K🔁 8.6K We need an end to blatant lying in politics. ❤ 25.9K🔁 4.9K

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined X in 2016 — 10 years ago.

👁️Averages 1.8M views per post.

📤Posts about 0.1× per week.

💬16.27% engagement rate.

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

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

85/100

Excellent Credibility score

91%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 91% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Strong engagement (~7.7× of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
Verified account.
Established account (10+ years old).
16.27% engagement is implausibly high for a X account this size (typ. ~2.2%) — a red flag for engagement pods or bought likes/comments.

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

About

Broadcaster & author, trying to make sense of a mad world. Presenter of ‘Unspun World’ on @BBCTwo, BBC World etc. Instagram @johnsimpsonnews.

🔀 Audience overlap

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Estimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.

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ROYZ 16%

Sabine Hossenfelder 15%

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mssn65 10%

The Tenderloins 10%

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🏆 Awards & milestones

🟣10K Followers10K followers

🟪100K Followers100K followers

Next: 💜 1M Followers — 770K followers to go

🛡️ Brand safety

✅Brand-safe90/100

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✓ Established channel (10+ yrs)
✓ Healthy engagement (real audience)

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Details

PlatformX

JoinedFeb 2016 · 10 yrs

Followers230,014

Updated2 months ago

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