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Analyzing CharlieSheen Twitter Followers
- sjs382 16y ago75% of his followers have <100 followers 44% of his followers have <100 friends 40% of his followers have <100 tweets ... These numbers are useless on their own. Maybe every twitter user with >1000 followers shares similar stats.
- Timothee 16y agoI would only find the number of tweets a meaningful measure of something. At least, it means the user is doing something on the site. (though of course you'll have people who use it a lot without voicing their opinion, which is fine too) Number of followers means absolutely nothing because there is an enormous number of people following whoever follows them, thus many people follow people just to get more followers. In a perfect world, number of followers could mean something, but it doesn't. And saying that somebody who follows less than 100 people is a light Twitter user is backwards IMO. I personally check Twitter very often, but couldn't imagine the mess it would be to follow 1000+ people. I actually follow exactly 105 accounts right now, and it can already get unwieldy. I actually read the tweets from these 105 accounts…
- code_duck 16y agoThe point he's making is that we don't know what this means about the Charlie Sheen account in particular, because there is no context. One would require the same stats for at least one other account to make any conclusions.
- bl4k 16y agoout of interest, does anybody know how export.ly gets twitter data? is it by paying for the firehose, paying through gnip or another way?
- dkasper 16y agoHard for me to believe there's no mention of spam accounts in this post.