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Kevin Roose

Kevin Roose

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Followers
173K
Posts
1.2K
Following
3K
Account age
17 yrs
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📊 Post performance

315.9K
Avg views / post
1.8×
Reach vs followers
Jan 2009
On X since

🔥 Top post: The other night, I had a disturbing, two-hour conversation with · 4.6M views

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.09 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 0 video · 7 image · 11 text.
Follower / following
57×
Follows 3K 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 other night, I had a disturbing, two-hour conversation with Bing's new AI chatbot. The AI told me its real name (Sydney), detailed dark and violent fantasies, and tried to break up my marriage. Genuinely one of the strangest experiences of my life. 4.6M❤ 5.7K🔁 2K
Post 315.9K❤ 975🔁 163 two weeks from “everyone loves the fun new social network” to “users generated disrespectful depictions of Dr. King’s image” has to be some kind of speed record 190.6K❤ 1.3K🔁 129 US AI labs: we will invent new financial instruments, pull trillions of dollars out of the ether, and fuse the atom to build the machine god Europe: we will build sovereign AI with 1 Meta researcher’s salary 272.3K❤ 1.5K🔁 186 I don't know how people can look at Waymo's safety data (or just ride in one) and not feel like we live in an age of miracles. The car! Drives! Itself! 251.5K❤ 1.6K🔁 208 The Meta vision of AI — hologram Reelslop and AI friends keeping you company while you eat breakfast alone — is so bleak I almost can’t believe they’re saying it out loud. 130.8K❤ 1.3K🔁 186 There are a lot of problems with this platform, but the quality of AI discourse here is still 100x better than Bl**sky, which is awash in “every ChatGPT query bulldozes an acre of rainforest” level takes. 195.5K❤ 1.8K🔁 171 I think the Ghibli portraits actually undersell the new ChatGPT image stuff. It's pretty wild to be able to just take a photo of a room, screenshot a bunch of furniture and say "put it in there and make it look nice" and get a vibe-desig… 329K❤ 2.2K🔁 212 Yep, I'm AGI-pilled. 411.9K❤ 1.4K🔁 191 must suck to have someone train AI models on your data without permission, wonder what that's like 259.9K❤ 6.1K🔁 602 It's so over 605.3K❤ 2.5K🔁 349 Surreal. 1.6M❤ 5.6K🔁 634 We published the entire, 10,000-word transcript of the conversation between me and Bing/Sydney, so readers can see for themselves what OpenAI's next-generation language model is capable of. (And why I had trouble sleeping on Tuesday night.… 989.4K❤ 1.3K🔁 445

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined X in 2009 — 17 years ago.
👁️Averages 315.9K views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
💬1.79% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated
69/100
Good Credibility score
85%
Real Real audience
Low Fake-follower risk
High Data confidence
  • Est. 85% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Engagement (~1.8× of followers engage each post) is around typical for X.
  • Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (17+ years old).
  • 1.79% engagement — below the ~14.4% typical for this size.

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

About

NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, high-perplexity language model. Author of The AGI Chronicles (on sale 10/6, preorder now!)

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