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Followers
13.6K
Account age
1 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$76 – $124 / sponsored post
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📊 Post engagement
13
Avg engagement / post
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2024
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: Opinion | The US is accelerating its purchasing of Virginia-clas · 27 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
85.7 / week
A very active account — posts many times a day.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
119×
Follows 115 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Opinion | In the fantasyland of AUKUS, poor submarine construction in the US and the UK will simply vanish overnight. But the facts are very different.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/04/a...
A push to "boycott The Daily Telegraph" has begun in Western Sydney, inspired by a similar campaign in the UK.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/04/g...
Opinion | Google is continuing the trend of cramming AI slop into every conceivable orifice of its tech — and just as a bonus, the company's emissions are skyrocketing.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/04/g...
Fresh from banning certain journalists from a press conference, Pauline Hanson arrived at an event last night to introduce One Nation’s Victorian candidates. Alex Zucco, with a press pass, attended to photograph the event – and found herse…
Could Australia be making more money off its natural gas resources? Absolutely, writes Richard Denniss.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/04/g...
Photojournalist Alex Zucco, complete with full press accreditation, attended One Nation's "Meet the Candidates" event in Melbourne last night. She quickly found herself pushed out the door without explanation.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/04…
The Snoop asked Communications Minister Anika Wells questions about bombshell testimony that gambling representatives offered drugs and sex workers as betting inducements. We did not receive a response.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/04/g...
Opinion | Google inserted AI image-generation software into its Google Earth platform, allowing users to generate harmful fake images. To Ketan Joshi, it proves why the tech giant is the worst of the AI hyperscalers.
www.crikey.com.au/202…
Gas industry spin doctors love to explain to Australians why the gas export taxes seen in places like Norway and Qatar just wouldn't work here. The claims don't stand up to scrutiny.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/04/g...
New polling shows Victorian Labor trailing behind the Coalition following last week's leadership change. In the UK, Reform leader Nigel Farage has pledged to introduce an Australian-style approach to border control.
www.crikey.com.au/202…
Among people aged 65-69, there are an estimated 16,000 taxpayers with student loan debt, and 26,000 among those aged 60-64. www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/03/h...
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@crikey.com.au
The handle is the domain crikey.com.au. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real crikey.com.au 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 13 views per post.
📤Posts about 85.7× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
📍Based in Australia.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated44/100
Fair
Credibility score
73%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- 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
Holding power to account.
Independent, Australian-owned news, investigation, analysis and opinion.
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