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I'm having trouble understanding the follower visualizations. Does the X axis represent her followers in the order they started following her and the Y axis is

I'm having trouble understanding the follower visualizations. Does the X axis represent her followers in the order they started following her and the Y axis is the date they (the follower) joined Twitter?

7dare 9y ago
The original article suffered from the same flaw, and they never really explained it.
duskwuff 9y ago
Correct. It's a kind of weird visualization, but the patterns which emerge are pretty striking (and obviously artificial).