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Just because Justin Bieber has 6m followers, doesn't mean any of them tweet. Twitter has always been more of a 'broadcast to followers' than a conversational t

by axod 16y ago

Just because Justin Bieber has 6m followers, doesn't mean any of them tweet. Twitter has always been more of a 'broadcast to followers' than a conversational tool.

Timothee 16y ago
The first time I have ever heard of Justin Bieber was by seeing his name in the trending topics for weeks in a row. (first half of the year) So a lot of Bieber fans do tweet.
- wippler 16y ago
  I think twitter changed their trending topics algorithm to not show Justin Bieber every time, they opted for new popular topics instead of always popular topics.
josephcooney 16y ago
> Twitter has always been more of a 'broadcast to followers' than a conversational tool. Can you substantiate this in any way? This doesn't match my experiences using twitter at all.
- dasil003 16y ago
  A friend of mine who got on the featured users list and went from 10,000 followers to 1,000,000 followers said it was like nothing changed. The number of @replies and RTs didn't increase noticeably at all.
- Locke1689 16y ago
  The OP is correct. http://mashable.com/2010/03/10/twitter-follow-stats/ http://mashable.com/2010/03/10/twitter-follow-stats/
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spazmaster 16y ago
To everyone wondering whether these teens wouldn't be tweeting much, here's a good link: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-20016059-10391698.html http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-20016059-10391698.html