Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
by bad_user on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @01:03PM
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In the set of people I follow, the popularity of Twitter accounts is directly proportional to the total number of tweets they have, which is a sample of almost 400 people. I did an analysis a while back.
Of course, there are always counter examples, famous people that don't tweet at all, or people posting dumb shit and not getting followers. That tweet to follower ratio has some variation. Quality matters too and it helps if people have a following outside of Twitter.
But still, I'd say that your likelihood of following someone is not representative of other Twitter users.
Of course, there are always counter examples, famous people that don't tweet at all, or people posting dumb shit and not getting followers. That tweet to follower ratio has some variation. Quality matters too and it helps if people have a following outside of Twitter.
But still, I'd say that your likelihood of following someone is not representative of other Twitter users.