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Followers
8.4K
Account age
1 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$47 – $76 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Aug 5latest
10
Avg engagement / post
6–14
Typical post (engagement)
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
75/100
Very consistent reach
Nov 2024
On Bluesky since
Half of recent posts land between 6 and 14 likes + reposts (median 11) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: After years of putting his paintings up around Hackney, homeless · 24 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
22.8 / week
Posts daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
129×
Follows 65 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Children's Laureate Patrice Lawrence say issues like homelessness were missing from books as a child, inspiring her to write about them
Despite having very different circumstances, sisters Nicola and Karen have both felt the struggle of making ends meet. Their stories underline some of the major misconceptions about financial hardship.
Mr Moneyjar uses AI as a tool, but he wouldn't trust it to make big financial decisions for him. Not yet, at least...
To celebrate Invisible Cities' 10th anniversary, their tour guides are giving Big Issue an insider's look at the cities they know so well.
Boxing clubs have long been doing the work once associated with the state. Can a new national study be the reason grassroots gyms stay alive?
Beth Orton never thought about making a living from songwriting, but over three decades on from her debut she's still going strong
Though progress has been made, access to pet-friendly accommodation remains a postcode lottery for animal lovers and dog owners.
Kat Blackwood receives less in universal credit and PIP because she is under 25. Here's how living on fewer DWP benefits affects her life.
Joanne Barker-Marsh recently went on her second holiday with her son abroad, something which made her feel both privileged and sad now that his childhood is nearly over. She calls on Andy Burnham to do more to help families in poverty have…
Children's Laureate Patrice Lawrence say issues like homelessness were missing from books as a child, inspiring her to write about them
Households can currently lose between £17 and £330 a week in benefit payments when a young person starts an apprenticeship.
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@bigissue.com
The handle is the domain bigissue.com. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real bigissue.com account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
Nov 2024
Joined after Bluesky opened to the public — a settled account with a real history.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2024 — 1 year ago.
👁️Averages 10 views per post.
📤Posts about 22.8× per week.
📍Based in United Kingdom.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated67/100
Good
Credibility score
89%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Bluesky.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
The UK’s number one street paper and social enterprise. 📰
Follow us for news, culture, and to support our mission to dismantle poverty in the UK.
🔀 Audience overlap
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