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Followers

101K

Posts

147.2K

Following

Account age

17 yrs

💰 Suggested sponsorship rate

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🕵️Fake Followers CheckReal-audience % & bot risk→ 📊Engagement rateBenchmarked vs. peers→ 💰What they chargeFair sponsored-post price→

📊 Post performance

219.3K

Avg views / post

2.2×

Reach vs followers

Sep 2009

On X since

🔥 Top post: The Windows XP activation algorithm has been cracked · 219.3K views

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.05 / week

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

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 0 video · 2 image · 16 text.

Follower / following

2.7K×

Follows 37 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

View on X ↗

🔥 Top post The Windows XP activation algorithm has been cracked 219.3K❤ 1.3K🔁 289

RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language ❤ 1.2K🔁 641 Looks like Britain's embracing a Zero Truss architecture ❤ 2.1K🔁 349 Authentication providers getting pwned by ransomware gangs is not the zero-trust future we had in mind ❤ 878🔁 196 Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima's exclusion zone ❤ 8.9K🔁 2.5K Computer security world in mourning over death of Dan Kaminsky, aged 42 ❤ 810🔁 287 If you're a WhatsApp user, you'll have to share your personal data with Facebook from next month – and no, you can'… ❤ 832🔁 1.1K Good on @Cloudflare to encourage social distancing by distancing everyone from the internet ❤ 943🔁 235 2020 should not have been pushed to prod. ❤ 3.3K🔁 1K Congrats, you're now a blockrain company. ❤ 3.9K🔁 438 Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently ❤ 765🔁 781 Yesterday, in a tweet, we poked fun at the #PHP programming language. We apologize, and completely understand why so many were upset by the remark. After all, if we had to write PHP code all day, we'd be cranky, too. ❤ 1.1K🔁 319

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined X in 2009 — 17 years ago.

👁️Averages 219.3K views per post.

📤Posts about 0.1× per week.

💬2.49% engagement rate.

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

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

98/100

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 (~2.2× of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
Established account (17+ years old).
2.49% engagement — above the ~2.2% typical for a X account this size.

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

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