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Followers
13.8K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$77 – $125 / sponsored post
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Jan 29latest
44
Avg engagement / post
23–65
Typical post (engagement)
0.3%
Engagement vs followers
76/100
Very consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 23 and 65 likes + reposts (median 55) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: Since a few folks asked—I stepped back from my WIRED column afte · 82 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.39 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
15×
Follows 902 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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To my fellow NYC data+climate nerds: Would love to see you at this event in NYC late September!
https://lu.ma/ho5akgvr
We're adding climate data to Aboard (https://aboard.com) to make it useful for doing adaptation work, and then...doing …
Trouble sleeping? Here’s a 1960 album about how to create a flight plan, coordinate with air traffic control, and fly a small airplane around California. https://archive.org/details/lp_instrument-flight_no-artist
Why not relax to the soothing sounds of the 1963 office? Enjoy my favorite track—“Plastic Laminator.”https://archive.org/details/lp_the-sounds-of-the-office_michael-siegel/disc1/02.04.+Plastic+Laminator.mp3
Me: The world is moving backwards. There's no progress. It's over.
My terminal: A new release of pip is available. To update, run: pip install --upgrade pip.
My spouse could not figure out why my alarm kept going off at 1:30AM, and kept trying to turn off whatever was beeping on my phone. Little did she know that I had gone to bed listening to a 1974 recording of the Bay Area Synthesizer Ensemb…
“On October 18, 1972, Tom Zahuranec invited the radio audience down to the KPFA Music Office to communicate mentally with a philodendron which was wired with liquid electrodes feeding impulses into a Buchla synthesizer.”
https://archive.or…
This is a wild interview from 1994—about growing up during the Cultural Revolution. I keep thinking about it. Basically every content warning applies: https://archive.org/details/RTFM-Comm-940530
These are good things to support! https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/02/journalism-us-media-industry-layoffs-co-ops
Is this the painful end of a golden age, or the painful beginning of a golden age?
just gotta render this to mp3 and then I can go to bed
This is very beautiful. https://thingswemake.com/suite-2412/
just gotta render this to mp3 and then I can go to bed
This is very beautiful. https://thingswemake.com/suite-2412/
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
tilde.zone
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 44 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.4× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated72/100
Good
Credibility score
94%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 94% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.3% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
💚 Brand affinity
EstimatedBrands Paul Ford's audience is most likely to respond to — from detected sponsorships in this niche.
About
Writer, programmer, editor, business human, parent in Brooklyn, NY. Mauna Loa 329.15.
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