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Followers

144.3K

Posts

25.1K

Following

10.8K

Account age

18 yrs

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📊 Post performance

5.6K

Avg views / post

3.9%

Reach vs followers

Jan 2008

On X since

🔥 Top post: PLOS is no longer posting on this platform. Please follow us on · 5.6K views

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.04 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 1 video · 4 image · 13 text.

Follower / following

13×

Follows 10.8K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post PLOS is no longer posting on this platform. Please follow us on Bluesky (https://t.co/4OTIOcvlZv) and continue to engage with us and our content for updates on open science publishing, policy and practice. 5.6K❤ 32🔁 26

What tool is most important to you in ensuring you get credit for your work? If you use a different tool, let us know in the replies! #FutureOfOpenScience #OpenScience ❤ 163🔁 59 What is the top reason that you choose #OpenScience? ➡️ My work is accessible to anyone ➡️ My work will reach more people ➡️ I can increase trust by sharing methods, data ➡️ My work will reach my peers faster If your top reason isn't l… ❤ 298🔁 39 What activities do you participate that help you feel most connected with others in your field? -Subject/field-specific conferences -Fully virtual conferences or meetups -Live audio discussions (Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces) -Social media gr… ❤ 657🔁 43 What is your favorite way to find out about new research in your field? (If your favorite option isn't listed, let us know in the replies!) #OpenScience #ScienceTwitter #SciComm ❤ 184🔁 40 How has communication in science changed in your field in the past couple of years? #ScienceTwitter #OpenScience #SciComm ❤ 173🔁 20

▶ We are extremely excited to announce the imminent launch of 5 new journals, our first new launches in 14 years! These new journals are unified in addressing global health & environmental challenges through forums rooted in the full val… ❤ 173🔁 96 We cannot ignore the latest injustice - #GeorgeFloyd. Simply put, #BlackLivesMatter. We will be prioritizing our social media space for the #BlackAndSTEM voices to be heard. We’re here and we’re listening. ❤ 287🔁 81 We are excited to take part in a new initiative that could significantly speed up peer review. @ASAPbio_ and @EMBOPress have teamed up to launch Review Commons, a platform for rapid, objective, journal-independent peer reviews. @verokierm… ❤ 169🔁 81 Today, we’re pushing the boundaries of Open and launching published peer review history across all of our journals. We're excited to begin offering authors and reviewers more choices about how they publish! ❤ 173🔁 106 Exciting news rings in the weekend: The European Research Council announced that it will accept #preprints as evidence of an academic's work when applying for grants, giving even more #powertothepreprint than before: https://t.co/BcVWKT9d8… ❤ 174🔁 96

#Preprints have come to @PLOS! Starting today, authors submitting to (most) PLOS journals have the choice of also posting as @biorxivpreprint. See the tweets above for just some of the reasons why we say "opt in". https://t.co/De5vsHJF9f … ❤ 189🔁 129

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined X in 2008 — 18 years ago.

👁️Averages 5.6K views per post.

📤Posts about 0× per week.

💬0.28% engagement rate.

🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

37/100

Low Credibility score

66%

Mixed Real audience

Medium Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 66% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
Low engagement (~3.9% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
Established account (18+ years old).
0.28% engagement — below the ~14.4% typical for this size.

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

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