Troy Hunt ✓

@troyhunt · Australia · joined 16 Apr 2008

Founder & CEO of @haveibeenpwned, the most trusted name in data breach intelligence. Speaker, blogger, Microsoft Regional Director. Gold Coast, Australia.

254 865Followers

1 319Following

121 523Posts total

37KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views6 848this account5 674median for 100K–1M

Reach, %2.69%this account2.38%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.06%this account1.44%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	6 848	5 674	1.21×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.69%	2.38%	1.13×
Engagement rate	0.06%	1.44%	0.04×

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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

8.7K31 Aug

12.5K

8.8K1 Sep

172 Sep

144

6.8K4 Sep

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.25%31 Aug

0.04%

0.00%

0.10%1 Sep

0.00%2 Sep

0.69%

0.06%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.44%.

What the audience does

Likes73.3%33 in total

Reposts4.4%2 in total

Replies13.3%6 in total

Bookmarks8.9%4 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

I'm live! Weekly Update 520: The Unscripted Edition: No agenda, all impromptu, here's what I'm up to, AMA, etc: https://t.co/0XZu5059A2 6.8K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 @troyhunt Troy, any plans to put the data from this major IDScan breach (U.S.) into your service? Problem is that tying it to email or phone number won’t work, but we desperately need to know exposure. 144 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 @troyhunt Email address ≠ person is the right model. Breach records are claims with varying provenance, not canonical identities. Synthetic data makes that distinction more important: preserve evidence, label confidence, and don’t let a noisy record become a permanent accusation. 17 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Weekly update is up! Breaches & Data Integrity: Synthetic Data in Breaches; Email Address != Person; Ridiculous Security for “Cyber Broken” Copenhagen: https://t.co/z6TyISbRWz 8.8K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 01 Sep 2026 @troyhunt Linking data integrity with synthetic data is crucial, as it directly impacts how we assess the severity of a breach 30 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 Going live with my weekly vid in 10 mins! Breaches & Data Integrity: Synthetic Data in Breaches; Email Address != Person; Ridiculous Security for “Cyber Broken” Copenhagen https://t.co/NpkQ17r964 12.5K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 I'll be speaking with @Scott_Helme at GOTO in Copenhagen next month, doing our "Cyber Broken" talk. We've done these many times before in Oslo, highlighting ridiculous security stuff; what's good material for this year? Who's saying *really* dumb stuff? It's not recorded, so we 8.7K views · 18 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 31 Aug 2026 Sometimes, life feels like a fairytale. This is now my favourite photo ever ❤️ https://t.co/lspKwVVSly 0 views · 1.9K likes · 25 reposts · 58 replies 09 Dec 2022