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Followers
78.9K
Posts
54.8K
Following
1K
Account age
17 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$442 – $718 / sponsored post
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📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.07 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 0 video · 5 image · 13 text.
Follower / following
79×
Follows 1K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
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Recent posts
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Best letter to the editor I’ve seen lately. Via @nytimes
Amazon’s plans for its new Virginia headquarters feature a 350-foot structure dubbed the Helix with two spiraling outdoor walkways with trees and plants from Virginia that twist to the building’s top. https://t.co/VGWTclnW1x via @WSJ
1 in 3 Americans live in states where marijuana is now legal for anyone over the age of 21. h/t @ameliatd of @538politics
True fact o day
At age 13, my mother was separated from her parents in 1939 when they put her on the Kindertransport from Germany to England. She was reunited with them — in the United States in 1941. That is my America.
Closing paragraphs of John Barry’s The Great Influenza.
Among the drugs Kodak initially will focus on will be hydroxychloroquine.
From @Cutler_econ Dear economist friends. I am very sad to report that Alberto Alesina passed away today. Apparently, he was hiking with his beloved wife Susan and had a heart attack. He was a great treasure whom we shall all miss.
2020 is a unique Leap Year. It has 29 days in February, 300 days in March and 5 years in April.
Peggy Noonan: Mike Pence crowed at the daily White House briefing: “We have conducted and completed 3,324,000 tests across the nation.” That’s barely 1% of the population three months into a crisis. That’s not an achievement, it’s a scanda…
Miami family, owner of auto dealerships, donates $2.5 million to fund investigative journalism in south Florida. ‘Future is in peril’
George Conway: I thought, President Trump was boorish, dim-witted, inarticulate, incoherent, narcissistic and insensitive....Sunday left no doubt. Naivete, resentment and outright racism, roiled in a toxic mix, have given us a racist presi…
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined X in 2009 — 17 years ago.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
💬8.17% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated61/100
Fair
Credibility score
85%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 85% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Limited engagement data — score uses the signals available.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (17+ years old).
- 8.17% engagement — below the ~18% typical for this size.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Director, Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy, Brookings. My latest book "Only the Rich Can Play," the story of Opportunity Zones.
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