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Followers
5.7K
Account age
2 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Sep 3latest
23
Avg engagement / post
15–27
Typical post (engagement)
0.4%
Engagement vs followers
71/100
Consistent reach
Oct 2024
On Bluesky since
Half of recent posts land between 15 and 27 likes + reposts (median 19) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: EU entry-exit system: just 32 days until UK passport holders sta · 58 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.84 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
816×
Follows 7 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Terminal tenner!
Airport drop-off charges to hit £10 as Gatwick hikes its driver fee by 43%.
Starts 6 January 2026 (on that day Wizz Air has a flight to Krakow for just £13.99).
Standard fee elsewhere: £7.
Gatwick blames rise on doubling o…
Travelling to the US, e.g. for the 2026 World Cup?
Soon you will need to provide details of social media activity for the past five years.
Aim is to comply with President Trump’s demand for all visitors to be “vetted and screened to the ma…
Grand Egyptian Museum – the GEM – finally opens in full to the public today.
It has immediately become a contender for world's greatest museum.
Do you have a different nomination?
www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...
Eastern Airways: Passenger rights as it goes wrong for the UK regional carrier.
www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...
Eastern Airways has:
Cancelled all flights.
Stopped selling tickets.
Returned aircraft to leasing companies.
So sadly it appears the regional airline will close after 28 years, following BMI Regional and Flybe.
I am now writing an explaine…
Rail: taxpayer subsidy of £400 per second to keep UK trains running looks unsustainably high.
Some fresh ideas from @freewheeling.info to entice new passengers and boost revenue.
Reserved seats on any train.
More first class.
Simpler railc…
EU entry-exit system not going well at Prague airport: busiest arrival point where the EES is due to be happening 100% on day one.
Queues of up to 90 minutes reported for arrivals from the UK and other non-Schengen nations.
www.independent…
EU entry-exit system explainer.
Key points:
No need to prepare anything in advance.
On first contact, facial biometric and fingerprints (not for under-12s) are collected. After that, just the face.
Initially it's an extra layer on top of e…
340 Tui passengers from Montego Bay to Manchester are stuck in Nassau, Bahamas, for 2+ days.
Original cause: an air-rage diversion.
Aircraft then developed a technical fault.
As Tui has no operation in Nassau, organising care is tricky.
Pa…
London Underground strike.
Northern Line is now running end to end.
Edgware and High Barnet <> Morden and Battersea Power Station via both Charing Cross and City branches.
Gaps between trains of 10 minutes or so, and some stations in centr…
Book an Interrail pass by next Tuesday, 9 September, and save 20%. Prices start at €226 (£197) for 4 days of travel within a month, 2nd class. 3-month continuous pass in 1st class costs €971 (£845).
Under-28s: further discount of 25%
60-pl…
🦋 Handle & authenticity
Bluesky handle
@simoncalder.bsky.social
A default .bsky.social handle — genuine, but not domain-verified. Confirm identity before a high-value deal.
On Bluesky since
Oct 2024
Joined after Bluesky opened to the public — a settled account with a real history.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2024 — 2 years ago.
👁️Averages 23 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.8× per week.
📍Based in United Kingdom.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated81/100
Excellent
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~0.4% of followers engage each post) — an active, real 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
Travel news and advice shared here, on TikTok @caldertravel and answering questions at weekends with my 5.30pm UK Instagram Live: http://instagram.com/simon_calder/
I read all relevant posts but cannot reply to everyone.
🔀 Audience overlap
EstimatedEstimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.
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