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All else being equal, people are more likely to follow people who already have lots of followers: there must be something good about their tweets that makes all
by diego 14y ago
All else being equal, people are more likely to follow people who already have lots of followers: there must be something good about their tweets that makes all those people choose to keep following them.
The number of followers is the only visible indicator of the "goodness" of an account. It's similar to karma on Hacker News, except that it's impossible to miss because it's prominently displayed. This is probably intentional on the part of Twitter, to grow their network.
http://buildingreputation.com/writings/2010/02/on_karma.html http://buildingreputation.com/writings/2010/02/on_karma.html
- grabeh 14y agoIs the quality of the tweets on a particular account not also a visible indicator of the 'goodness' of that account?
- brk 14y agoWhich one is easier to make a short-attention span decision on: 1) This person has made 1000 tweets, let me read them all in order to gauge my opinion of them. 2) OH LOOK, 5,000 FOLLOWERS! Must follow popular person!
- grabeh 14y agoOf course you are right but the suggestion was that the latter was the only visible indicator which is obviously not the case.