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Followers
7.2K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Sep 3latest
9
Avg engagement / post
6–12
Typical post (engagement)
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
68/100
Consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 6 and 12 likes + reposts (median 7) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: The Big Power of Small Annoyances In a small black box, in a cup · 25 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
2.4 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
70×
Follows 103 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Is the modern economy a bit… samey?
Last week’s column, with the aid of a pink romantasy bookshop, discussed the way a healthy economy offers “disciplined pluralism”. Discipline means that sooner or later, uneconomic ideas fail. Pluralism …
Cautionary Tales – The Mummy’s Curse (Classic)
One hundred years ago, on 16th February 1923, the Tomb of the Pharaoh Tutenkhamun was officially opened. Disturbing the remains of the Egyptian pharaohs is known to incur a deadly curse, so wh…
I was wrong about Bad Girl Books
There are some ideas so self-evidently bad that as you see the seeds being sown, it’s all you can do to restrain yourself from staging an intervention. So it was with Bad Girl Books, which earlier this year…
Cautionary Tales – When Muhammad Ali Met Henry’s Hammer
https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/playlists/podcast
Before he became Muhammad Ali, Cassius Clay was known as the “Louisville Loud-mouth”, as famous for his sharp…
Random is as random does
In the genius’s playground that was Bell Labs in the 1950s, Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, built an outguessing machine. The machine’s task was simple: a human would choose one of two levers, lef…
Cautionary Tales – How a Broken Arm Improved my French, with David Epstein
https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/playlists/podcast
Last week, Cautionary Tales described the rise and fall of General Magic, the startup with…
Why the story of the Vegetable Lamb was believed
Of all the wonders witnessed by Sir John Mandeville, a 14th-century English knight, none was more astonishing than the “wondirfulle” fruit of a tree he encountered on his travels in India. T…
Cautionary Tales – Talent, Time and Money: The Curse of General Magic
https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/playlists/podcast
It's 1990. A new company called General Magic is going to build its vision of the future: the s…
Nudge or tax? At last, some data
It all seems very long ago, but there was a time when David Cameron was most famous for his enthusiasm for behavioural public policy, better known as “nudges”. In a TED talk released a few months before Cam…
Cautionary Tales – Win a Kidney! The Great Donorshow Outrage
In the noughties, reality TV is in an arms race. Shows compete for viewers by one-upping each other with increasingly shocking and controversial formats. The Dutch production com…
Cautionary Tales – Evel Knievel Faces The Abyss
https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/playlists/podcast
Evel Knievel, the world-famous daredevil, is planning his greatest ever stunt. In 1974, he wants to leap over Snake R…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
econtwitter.net
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
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 9 views per post.
📤Posts about 2.4× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated58/100
Fair
Credibility score
81%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 81% real, active audience · Low 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.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Author How To Make The World Add Up (UK) / The Data Detective (US).
Cautionary Tales podcast.
Undercover Economist at the FT.
BBC More or Less.
Views my own.
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