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Ben Smith

Ben Smith

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Followers
318.3K
Posts
145.6K
Following
3.9K
Account age
18 yrs
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📊 Post performance

2.4M
Avg views / post
7.6×
Reach vs followers
Oct 2007
On X since

🔥 Top post: Statement from Smartmatic lawyer Erik Connolly: “Dominion’s lit · 4.5M views

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.05 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 1 video · 4 image · 13 text.
Follower / following
82×
Follows 3.9K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Verification
✓ X Premium
A paid X Premium (Blue) verified account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Statement from Smartmatic lawyer Erik Connolly: “Dominion’s litigation exposed some of the misconduct and damage caused by Fox’s disinformation campaign. Smartmatic will expose the rest. 1/2 4.5M❤ 16K🔁 3.6K
Did Kamala accidentally stumble into a new model for a very short campaign? What if the a party pushed all the primaries into the weeks before the convention? The long American campaigns have a real downside. 2.4M❤ 11.5K🔁 1.8K Smartmatic remains committed to clearing its name, recouping the significant damage done to the company, and holding Fox accountable for undermining democracy.” 2/2 1.7M❤ 8.2K🔁 1.5K New: Here's the text message from @elonmusk telling SBF he's "welcome" to roll his public shares into Musk's twitter, as Liz reported https://t.co/7yS5166PtP ❤ 7.4K🔁 2.8K I love how Apple communicates "Made in China" ❤ 45.4K🔁 3.8K New: Two Fox News Contributors Quit in Protest of Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 Special ❤ 7.4K🔁 2.9K Dominion just sent letters to the social platforms asking them to preserve posts, and offered a glimpse at their target list: ❤ 9.5K🔁 3.2K Washington Post EIC Marty Baron has told Post reporters to use "mob," not "protesters," to describe people storming capitol, a staffer tells me. ❤ 13.9K🔁 2.9K Incredible stuff from @katie_robertson inside the New York Post's newsroom as the bosses rammed a story through on Rudy's sayso, and over reporters' objections ❤ 8.2K🔁 4.3K Enormous pressure on NBC now to make this thing a nightmare for Trump. ❤ 19.6K🔁 4.7K The media has built up such a reflex of ignoring Trump's wild comments that when he says something that's major, siren-level news — the postal service remarks — it is only leading one website I can find, @huffpost ❤ 7.6K🔁 2.1K Tara Reade, two people tell me, has been turning down Fox appearances for many days. Kind of remarkable MSNBC or CNN hasn't just had her on at this point. ❤ 13.3K🔁 2.3K

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined X in 2007 — 18 years ago.
👁️Averages 2.4M views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
💬7.56% 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 (~7.6× of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
  • Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (18+ years old).
  • 7.56% engagement — around average for this size on X.

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

About

Editor-in-chief of @semafor. Former @nytimes media columnist, @buzzfeednews EIC. "Traffic." , Signal semaforben.90

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