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Followers
26.6K
Account age
2 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$149 – $242 / sponsored post
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Known for
📊 Post engagement
27
Avg engagement / post
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
Feb 2024
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: Explain it to me like I'm 10 as.ft.com/r/d0083cc6-0... · 61 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
5.2 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.3K×
Follows 20 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Fundraising closes tomorrow - thank you so much to everyone who donated. An amazing total, quite unbefitting a few months of training but reflective, perhaps, of what a good cause the Teenage Cancer Trust is.
If you intended to donate but…
Cautionary Tales - the Doors of Death: The Herald of Free Enterprise
timharford.com/2026/07/10360/
Should we conduct a randomised trial of the parachute?
timharford.com/2026/07/expe...
Six foolish mistakes for the UK's chancellor to avoid - @chrisgiles.ft.com is watching and so are the bond markets
as.ft.com/r/1f24e446-0...
"What a Bloody Mess we're in" - Britain's [REDACTED] Accident
timharford.com/2026/07/caut...
Can you keep a (trade) secret?
timharford.com/2026/07/can-...
Listen to the pod, then buy the book - not only wise and humane but full of surprising details based on old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting
Cautionary Tales - Attack of the Night People
timharford.com/2026/07/caut...
How did air conditioning become a heated debate?
timharford.com/2026/07/how-...
UNHCR's archives - an easy-seeming choice for budget cuts, but once destroyed, impossible to rebuild
rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/06/29/u...
Weird management lessons from a shipwreck
as.ft.com/r/a3d3bc39-0...
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@timharford.ft.com
The handle is the domain timharford.ft.com. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real timharford.ft.com account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
Feb 2024
Joined after Bluesky opened to the public — a settled account with a real history.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2024 — 2 years ago.
👁️Averages 27 views per post.
📤Posts about 5.2× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated53/100
Fair
Credibility score
76%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 76% 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.
- Verified account.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
🔀 Audience overlap
EstimatedEstimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.
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