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Followers
23.1K
Account age
1 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$130 – $211 / 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
Jul 26latest
13
Avg engagement / post
6–21
Typical post (engagement)
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
72/100
Consistent reach
Nov 2024
On Bluesky since
Half of recent posts land between 6 and 21 likes + reposts (median 10) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: Call center nurses at Kaiser Permanente said workplace surveilla · 25 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
15.3 / week
Posts daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
593×
Follows 39 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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California is leading on kids’ data privacy in the U.S. but still lags internationally.
Dancers say their craft can’t be duplicated by AI. Our tests show they’re right — for now.
None of the videos produced by the leading AI platforms showed the actual dances we requested.
The civil lawsuit, citing the Dating App Reporting Project, argues that dating apps could kick off serial rapists, but don’t.
The California Courier likes to run Facebook ads against Democrats. Its funding, and most of its writers, are a mystery.
California is leading on kids’ data privacy in the U.S. but still lags internationally.
Lawsuits in California federal and state court are unearthing documents embarrassing to tech companies — and may be a tipping point into federal regulation.
As California passed various child privacy laws, countries like Brazil passed comprehensive legislation that overlaps with some California policies, while going even further. bit.ly/4fDCeWt
📸 Zaydee Sanchez
Dark patterns force patients to share their data with big healthcare networks, even when the privacy form they’re signing explicitly says they can opt-out.
A tool called DROP lets California residents fill out a few forms to keep their personal data from being tracked or sold by data brokers.
A congressional investigation estimates broker breaches have cost consumers $20 billion in identity theft. Major brokers now promise to make it easier to opt out of their databases.
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@themarkup.org
The handle is the domain themarkup.org. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real themarkup.org 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 15.3× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🕵️ 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
Challenging technology to serve the public good.
Send tips: http://mrkup.org/tips. Subscribe: http://mrkup.org/klaxon. Support: http://mrkup.org/donate.
🔀 Audience overlap
EstimatedEstimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.
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