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The Scotsman

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X @thescotsman 📍 United Kingdom
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Followers
181.9K
Posts
411.5K
Following
1.2K
Account age
17 yrs
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Known for

📊 Post performance

3.1K
Avg views / post
1.7%
Reach vs followers
Nov 2008
On X since

🔥 Top post: The scene at Princes Street garden Edinburgh for the coronation · 2.5M views

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.03 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 1 video · 11 image · 6 text.
Follower / following
148×
Follows 1.2K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Verification
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A paid X Premium (Blue) verified account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post The scene at Princes Street garden Edinburgh for the coronation https://t.co/xzQuAbiyZn 2.5M❤ 5.4K🔁 1.7K
Subscribe to The Scotsman for just £2 and enjoy 2-for-1 Edinburgh Fringe tickets! 🎭🎟️ Sign up today: https://t.co/jPlCRMv2nR 3.1K🔁 2 Ian Blackford has described the Government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda as “evil”. ❤ 4.4K🔁 1.3K RIP to a rock legend What's your favourite Meat Loaf song? ❤ 3.5K🔁 1.6K And Zack Clothier captured this photo of a grizzly bear staring straight into his camera trap. Returning to the scene was challenging. #WPY57 ❤ 7.2K🔁 1K A Siberian jay flies to the top of a spruce tree to stash its food. Lasse Kurkela wanted to give a sense of scale in his photograph of the Siberian jay, tiny among the old-growth spruce-dominated forest. #WPY57 ❤ 5.1K🔁 552 Here, Adam Oswell draws attention to zoo visitors watching a young elephant perform underwater. Although the performance was promoted as educational and as exercise for the elephants, Adam was disturbed by this scene. #WPY57 ❤ 3.1K🔁 490 The overall winner of the competition was this striking photograph by Laurent Ballesta. It took 5 years for the French photographer and biologist to get this shot of a rare underwater spawning of camouflage groupers that only takes place… ❤ 5.8K🔁 702 The winners of the @NHM_WPY Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards have been revealed, and they are spectacular. This beautiful portrait, called 'under rain', was taken by Majed Ali #WPY57 ❤ 15.3K🔁 3.3K The brain of a common octopus has 500 million neurons, making it as smart as a dog or a three-year-old child. ❤ 3.6K🔁 835 "Octopus farming is immoral, given everything we know about this highly intelligent animal." A thread 🐙 @philip_ciwf ❤ 5.5K🔁 2.4K The new travel show will follow Outlander stars @Samheughan and Graham McTavish as they journey all over Scotland together ❤ 3.9K🔁 406

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined X in 2008 — 17 years ago.
👁️Averages 3.1K views per post.
📤Posts about per week.
💬3.73% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.
📍Based in United Kingdom.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated
46/100
Fair Credibility score
69%
Mixed Real audience
Medium Fake-follower risk
High Data confidence
  • Est. 69% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
  • Low engagement (~1.7% 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 (17+ years old).
  • 3.73% 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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