Ben Dicken
@benjdicken Creator on X Data / DB 1 to check
Not known. Estimate about $90 for one sponsored post.
Average impressions a post 89,448 Averaged across 12 posts, from X's own API. Read Sep 4, 2026. Latest post 266,830 impressions, Jul 15, 2026
Median impressions 54,643 The typical post. Budget against this one.
followers 46,245 From X's own API. Read Sep 4, 2026.
Last posted 2mo ago Posts every day, across 12 recent posts. Read Sep 4, 2026.
Last 12 posts
Views per post, oldest to newest. Average 89,448.
What one sponsored post likely costs
Our estimate, not a quoteabout $90for one sponsored post
46,245 followers × $2 per 1,000 followers Sprout Social, 30 May 2024 ↗
46,245 followers x $2 per 1,000 followers as a rule of thumb (Sprout Social, 30 May 2024). This is our arithmetic on a published benchmark, not a quote from the creator.
| Post | Date | Views |
|---|---|---|
| How do you make 768 servers look like 1? The answer is sharding. I wrote about *why* it's needed and *how* it's achiev | 266,830 | |
| The best database on earth for the price of 1/2 an SF cappuccino. | 62,457 | |
| Postgres handles MVCC with per-row transaction ID metadata. Every row (tuple) you insert into a Postgres table includes | 26,849 | |
| Not all CPUs are created equal. This latency graph shows a r6id → i7i upgrade. Same vCPU count. Same amount of RAM. Bot | 107,731 | |
| Go powers some of the worlds largest databases. It's the language of sharded MySQL and Postgres (Vitess and Neki). | 46,828 | |
| Career hack: Make yourself the database expert. Your colleagues will thank you. | 134,937 | |
| What happens when you INSERT a row in Postgres? Postgres needs to ensure that data is durable while maintaining good wr | 45,074 | |
| PlanetScale now supports PgBouncers (connection poolers) for your replicas. Connection pooling is broadly important for | 28,150 | |
| Much of the the internet runs on Elastic Block Storage. It's the default (and in most cases, required) storage layer fo | 16,583 | |
| Want to understand B-trees better? Try https://t.co/IBGLxVle6D and https://t.co/83QfJ8sNcd. These are standalone sandb | 135,699 | |
| Explain is a powerful tool in Postgres. If you care about performance, get comfortable running `explain` and `explain a | 29,557 | |
| Why I like database papers. https://t.co/BYp0boUq7o | 172,676 |
Who sponsors Ben Dicken?
No sponsorships have been documented yet. Nothing on record either way, so ask them directly.
What we checked, in full
20 checks, 15 passed, 1 to review
| ✓ | Metrics came from the platform | Every audience figure here is a value X's own API returned, never estimated or inferred. The price estimate is the one number we work out ourselves, and it is labelled and shows its arithmetic. | not published |
| ✓ | Enough recent posts to judge | 12 recent posts sampled (target 12). | not published |
| ✓ | Average impressions ≥ 20,000 | 89,448 average impressions, median 54,643, across 12 posts. | required |
| ✓ | Typical post also clears 20,000 | Median impressions 54,643 and outlier-trimmed mean 78,996 both clear the floor. A sponsored post should land in that range. | integrity |
| ✓ | Tech / dev / software engineering | 5 distinct dev signals in the bio and post text: aws, database, postgres, mysql, architecture. | required |
| ✓ | Not a gaming channel | No gaming signal in the text. X publishes no content category, so this is a text judgement. | required |
| ✓ | Not a hardware / gear channel | No hardware/gear pattern. | preference |
| ! | Target region (US / UK / EU / AU / NZ / SG) | This account has left its location field empty. Region is unknown and must not be claimed. | required |
| ✓ | Like rate ≥ 0.15% of impressions | 1.27% like rate, 0.025% comment rate, averaged per post. | integrity |
| ✓ | Average is not one viral outlier (X limit 15×) | Top post is 4.9× the median, within the normal spread for X, so the average reflects repeatable performance. | integrity |
| ✓ | Comment volume matches the view counts | Median 17 comments against 470 median likes: a normal ratio. | integrity |
| ✓ | impressions plausible for the followers count | 89,448 average impressions against 46,245 followers (193%). | integrity |
| ✓ | Posted recently | Last post 54 day(s) ago. | preference |
| ✓ | Publishes on a regular schedule | Median 1 day(s) between posts; the 12 sampled posts span 254 days. | preference |
| ✓ | Sampled posts are recent enough to compare | The 12 sampled posts span 254 days, close enough together that their impressions counts are comparable. | integrity |
| – | Same numbers from two endpoints of the same API | No post from this account appeared in both the search index and the profile feed, so there was nothing to cross-check. | not published |
| – | Verified against the platform's own published feed | X publishes no independent public feed to check the API's numbers against. YouTube is the only platform here where that second source exists. | not published |
| ✓ | An independent creator, not a company's own channel | Nothing marks this as a company-run channel: it is not a known company account, the name carries no corporate designation, and the bio is not written in a company's voice. | required |
| – | Same person confirmed on other platforms | No other public profile was linked from this account, so this record covers one platform only. | not published |
| – | Runs paid promotions (platform-declared) | Sponsorships shown for this creator are parsed from the text of their own post descriptions, so they are suspected rather than platform-confirmed. | not published |