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332.8K
Posts
17.1K
Following
1.7K
Account age
17 yrs
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LOL. The CEO of Twitter has gone full despot/dictator mode. You can now get banned for mentioning your Insta, FB, Mastodon, Post, or other. You know a country is in full freedom mode when it starts shutting its borders for people trying to leave!
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FYI, the only reason I'm still here is to to make fun of the new CEO and his $44B dumpster fire. Anything serious I have to say will be said over on that other site (rhymes with John Mastodon). But please, keep the replies coming!
📊 Post performance
1.3M
Avg views / post
4×
Reach vs followers
Mar 2009
On X since
🔥 Top post: Let this sink in: @elonmusk hath decreed that all links to Masto · 3.4M views
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.06 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 0 video · 4 image · 14 text.
Follower / following
192×
Follows 1.7K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
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FYI, the only reason I'm still here is to to make fun of the new CEO and his $44B dumpster fire. Anything serious I have to say will be said over on that other site (rhymes with John Mastodon). But please, keep the replies coming!
LOL. The CEO of Twitter has gone full despot/dictator mode. You can now get banned for mentioning your Insta, FB, Mastodon, Post, or other. You know a country is in full freedom mode when it starts shutting its borders for people trying to…
Everything that @elonmusk has done publicly so far to Twitter seems like exactly what I'd do if I wanted to ensure the entire platform ran straight into the ground, and fast. His actions and words make it really hard to see how this isn't …
1/ So you go shopping for a PIV card reader, because the US govt gave you one and you're curious to look at what's on it. You settle for this "DOD military USB common access smart card reader," because it's compatible with Mac OS. Cool! On…
From trusted source: Person on FB recovery effort said the outage was from a routine BGP update gone wrong. But the update blocked remote users from reverting changes, and people with physical access didn't have network/logical access. So …
Just published a short (hopefully broadly accessible) writeup on the ongoing outages at Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp. Includes perspective, graphic from @dougmadory and Kentik. Will update to add more info soon.
To be more precise (and Geek Factor 5) the BGP routes serving Facebook's authoritative DNS were withdrawn, rendering all Facebook domains inaccessible. That's per @DougMadory , who knows a few things about BGP/DNS.
We don't know why this change was made. It could well have been the result of an internal, system wide change or update that went awry. It's all speculation at this point why. FB alone is in control over its DNS records.
Confirmed: The DNS records that tell systems how to find https://t.co/qHzVq2Mr4E or https://t.co/JoIPxXI9GI got withdrawn this morning from the global routing tables. Can you imagine working at FB right now, when your email no longer works…
8kun/8chan went down tonight. A phone call to their DDoS protection provider was all it took. That provider says they had no idea they were helping 8kun stay online. 8kun, some QAnon sites now getting DDoS protection from ddos-guard dot ne…
Predictably, the Zoom hearing for the 17-year-old alleged Twitter hacker in Fla. was bombed multiple times, with the final bombing of a pornhub clip ending the zoom portion of the proceedings.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined X in 2009 — 17 years ago.
👁️Averages 1.3M views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
💬2.63% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated98/100
Excellent
Credibility score
99%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~4× of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (17+ years old).
- 2.63% engagement — above the ~2.3% typical for a X account this size.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Independent investigative journalist. Author of 'Spam Nation,' a NYT bestseller. Former Washington Post reporter. Mastodon: http://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs
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