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Ask HN: Which will come first 1B followers or 1T dollars?
To clarify, I mean 1 Billion followers on one platform (ie. Twitter, IG, TikTok, etc)
I'm also talking about actual people not companies (ie. T-Series, @Instagram, etc.)
#1 most followed: @Christiano (309 Million Instagram Followers)
Current Richest: Jeff Bezos ($200 Billion USD)
- PaulHoule 5y agoWho is that Christiano?
- ignoranceprior 5y agoRonaldo, the soccer/football player
- dave_sid 5y agoChristiano Potter. Rust influencer.
- sergiotapia 5y agoNever heard of her
- dave_sid 5y agoYou will
- yuppie_scum 5y agoThere is no way that many people give a crap about rust.
- dave_sid 5y agoHaha
- onychomys 5y agoBezos has to quintuple his net worth, that other guy just needs to triple his (more or less), so I'm going with followers.
- muzani 5y agoI look at it as market size though. Instagram has a billion active monthly users and it's probably peaked now that they're declaring war on TikTok. On the other hand, Amazon is only in a few countries so they have plenty of room to grow or acquire.
- trcarney 5y agoOn the other hand, if we keep inflating the currency the way we have been in recent years (2008 onwards), Bezos could be worth $1T just by the dollar having less value.
- BizarroLand 5y agoI would go with the cash, as unless someone is seriously gaming the system about 1 in 8 human beings on the planet would have to create an account and follow the celebrity for them to get 1 billion followers assuming only real accounts counted. Even a twitter verified Jesus Christ, son of the one true God would have a somewhat difficult time drumming up 1 billion twitter followers, and he has at least that many followers in real life.
- high_byte 5y agoJeff makes dollars faster than babies. Ambiguous and true
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- Bxv 5y agoNetwork effects are breaking down. Reeds Law and Metcalfe law are already showing signs they don't hold for various reasons such as the Dunbar number, error rates in the 6 inch chimp brain we have increasing from info overload etc. Therefore I'd say the era of non linear scaling taking advantage of network effects has already peaked. Disney has said they have the resources to pump out star wars movies every week but the chimp troupe doesn't have the finanical and cognitive capacities to handle it.
- rmdashrfstar 5y ago> Disney has said they have the resources to pump out star wars movies every week but the chimp troupe doesn't have the finanical and cognitive capacities to handle it. Source?
- meiraleal 5y agoNone
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