Paul Walsh ✓

@Paul__Walsh

Expert in online safety and privacy (fraud, espionage, phishing). Co-invented content labels (e.g. Twitter Verified). OSINT analyst uncovering surveillance tech

6 119Followers

556Following

59 621Posts total

1.3MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views11 488this account7 264median for under 10K

Reach, %187.74%this account475.35%median for under 10K

Engagement, %1.63%this account0.97%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	11 488	7 264	1.58×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	187.74%	4.8× audience	0.39×
Engagement rate	1.63%	0.97%	1.69×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

1.2M13 Jul

28.4K

23.9K

23.2K

11.5K

4.5K

8.4K

2.7K15 Jul

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.14%13 Jul

2.19%

1.70%

1.88%

1.63%

4.05%

1.61%

0.74%15 Jul

0.34%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 0.97%.

What the audience does

Likes57.6%10 403 in total

Reposts21.0%3 792 in total

Replies3.5%638 in total

Quotes3.4%614 in total

Bookmarks14.4%2 608 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Video demo link as promised in the previous tweet. https://t.co/OOSVoggSJL 3K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 15 Jul 2026 The UK government's announcements around digital curfew proposals are just more state control. Since current restrictions are voluntary and easily bypassed by teens in a couple of clicks, what's the point. The screenshot shows the UI for custom Android firmware my team built 15 2.7K views · 17 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 15 Jul 2026 For anyone interested, I’m writing three plain-English articles on "Chat Control" (1.0 and 2.0), followed by a white paper for policy leaders: ⓵ Explains both versions, showing how 1.0 erodes privacy while 2.0 completely destroys it. ⓶ Details the technical flaws of Chat https 8.4K views · 111 likes · 19 reposts · 2 replies 13 Jul 2026 @Paul__Walsh It's time to abolish the EU https://t.co/Z2msI7kLAG 4.5K views · 164 likes · 10 reposts · 8 replies 13 Jul 2026 EU Special Panel on child safety online. Report published. 156 pages. Recommends Europe-wide age verification. Technical experts in blocking, filtering, classification or detection, the systems that determine what a minor can access: 0 of 67. The 67 named participants: 🎓 https 11.5K views · 151 likes · 30 reposts · 6 replies 13 Jul 2026 This 2-minute video shows how fast and easy it's for any parent to block specific apps and websites on an iPhone. Unless you have the PIN code, there's no way to get around it. Parental controls were awful 10+ years ago, but today they're excellent. They're a hundred times more 23.2K views · 343 likes · 86 reposts · 8 replies 13 Jul 2026 Should adults and kids aged 14+ be forced to verify their identity to access apps and websites? NOTE: Mobile phones have excellent parental controls that let parents block any app or website, or completely prevent kids from installing apps rated above ages like 13+. 23.9K views · 343 likes · 57 reposts · 5 replies 13 Jul 2026 I hate digging into my credentials, but in the context of online child safety and child exploitation, they matter because governments and child safety lobbyists are railroading everyone with personal opinions based on dangerous ideology. Being a parent doesn't qualify me to say 28.4K views · 536 likes · 76 reposts · 9 replies 13 Jul 2026 Ursula von der Leyen has confirmed that everyone in the EU will need to use the EU's app for identity authentication before being able to access or post on social media websites. 🇪🇺 As an expert in online child safety, I am here to expose the misinformation and misdirection in 1.2M views · 8.7K likes · 3.5K reposts · 599 replies 13 Jul 2026