Num followers is a terrible metric. Better to track someone's *de facto* followers, e.g., by using [average # of likes per top-level tweet].
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I've noticed while I get a few likes on most tweets, they're rarely the same people. So best would be this times some constant.
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I'm thinking in terms of approximating the absolute number of active followers, instead of average per tweet.
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Isn't average likes per tweet (across a large # of tweets) linearly proportional to # active followers?
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