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Followers
69.6K
Posts
64.2K
Following
117
Account age
17 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$390 – $633 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
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📊 Post performance
Recent posts · views
Jul 23latest
48.9K
Avg views / post
30.5K–137.9K
Typical post (views)
70.3%
Reach vs followers
45/100
Variable reach
Jan 2009
On X since
Half of recent posts land between 30.5K and 137.9K views (median 52.6K) — reach is spiky, driven by the occasional post that pops.
🔥 Top post: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Ass · 544.4K views
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.06 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 0 video · 2 image · 16 text.
Follower / following
595×
Follows 117 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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Valve Already Upstreams Support For The New Steam Controller To SDL3
Great job Valve.
sudo-rs Affected By Multiple Security Vulnerabilities - Impacting Ubuntu 25.10
One of the issues involves the sudo password being leaked in case of timeout or the sudo process being killed.
Steam On Linux Gaming Finally Cracks 3% For October 2025
IT FINALLY HAPPENED! Steam on Linux use above 3% in modern times! Healthy month over month jump, up 1% YoY!
FreeBSD 15.0 Aims To Have A KDE Desktop Install Option
Firefox 141 Release Brings Lower RAM Usage On Linux
Arch Linux AUR Packages For Firefox & Other Browsers Removed For Containing Malware
New FFmpeg AVX-512 Optimizations Hit Up To 36x The Performance Of Plain C Code
Asahi Lina Pausing Work On Apple GPU Linux Driver Development
Another hit to the Apple Silicon on Linux effort.
Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted
The decision stands.
Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away
RIP Larry Finger after nearly 20 years of Linux WiFi contributions across 1500+ patches.
Crap! HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD
"The HDMI Forum has rejected our proposal unfortunately. At this time an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation is not possible without running afoul of the HDMI Foru…
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined X in 2009 — 17 years ago.
👁️Averages 48.9K views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
💬1.24% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K 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 (~0.7× 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).
- 1.24% engagement — below the ~8.8% typical for this size.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Founded by @MichaelLarabel in 2004, Phoronix is the largest #opensource news, #Linux hardware reviews & Linux PC/server/HPC performance benchmark site.
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