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Followers
4.4K
Account age
2 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Aug 2latest
10
Avg engagement / post
4–8
Typical post (engagement)
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
62/100
Consistent reach
Aug 2024
On Bluesky since
Half of recent posts land between 4 and 8 likes + reposts (median 7) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: Belfast's first ever chance to host the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉirean · 27 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
3.7 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
181×
Follows 24 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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As first minister designate, David Trimble was paid £5,000 more than Seamus Mallon — despite the first and deputy first minister roles being equal. There was a plan to hike the differential to £15,000, with the NIO fearing Trimble would ‘g…
One of the Irish Government’s most senior diplomats made what top NIO figures believed to be “bizarre” criticism of how he said the evangelical Protestant faith of future NIO head Jonathan Stephens influenced his work, according to a decla…
A court has heard a recording of a former council boss allegedly asking an aide to delete (after an FoI request had been made) an email she sent to First Minister Arlene Foster regarding alleged loyalist threats to port workers.
Co Down woman admits breaching a lifetime anonymity order by publishing information likely to lead to the identification of a victim of Jeffrey Donaldson.
Margaret Thatcher commissioned a highly secretive analysis of whether to create a compulsory system of identity cards for everyone in Northern Ireland, declassified Government files have revealed.
A DUP politician endorsed violence, privately briefing an unnerved Government official that he was preparing for "brother against brother" fighting just weeks before the Good Friday Agreement, a declassified file reveals.
Doubt is often seen as a vice, but can be a virtue. In an age of AI slop and slick lies, we need doubt more than ever.
Jon Burrows’ greatest asset is also his greatest weakness. A year after entering politics, Burrows is the most popular man in unionism, but his feet of clay are starting to emerge. The UUP leader's path to victory still exists, but is peri…
Grotesque images from @kscott94.bsky.social showing two swans trapped in a vast expanse of toxic sludge on Lough Neagh last night. Firefighters spent more than an hour trying to rescue them. NI gets c40% of its drinking water from Lough Ne…
Sinn Féin is preparing the ground to potentially collapse Stormont. This is a sudden and cynical change of strategy driven by desperation at the party's failure to deliver, mostly down to SF's own incompetence - but this could be electoral…
Terror bosses ‘laughing’ at authorities as Sinn Féin department and PSNI play pass the parcel on UDA flag which police only removed after our questions. When in opposition, SF demanded terror flags be taken down; when in power, not one has…
🦋 Handle & authenticity
Bluesky handle
@sjamcbride.bsky.social
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On Bluesky since
Aug 2024
Joined after Bluesky opened to the public — a settled account with a real history.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2024 — 2 years ago.
👁️Averages 10 views per post.
📤Posts about 3.7× per week.
📍Based in Ireland.
🕵️ 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 (~0.2% 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
Northern Ireland Editor of the Belfast Telegraph & Sunday Independent. Author of Burned: The Inside Story of the Cash-for-Ash Scandal. Any views mine alone.
🔀 Audience overlap
EstimatedEstimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.
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