Out of 's recent 5,000 followers, over half were created in the past week
1278 Thu Dec 26
647 Fri Dec 27
212 Wed Dec 25
114 Tue Dec 24
89 Mon Dec 23
60 Sun Dec 22
33 Sat Dec 21
32 Wed Dec 18
31 Thu Dec 19
30 Fri Dec 20
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It's going to be REAL interesting once I get all 68 million of his followers to plot when the accounts were created. Something fishy seems to be going on here.
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Or the alternate explanation is that some parties (or POTUS) r encouraging people/supporters who were not on T* to create accounts since the POTUS uses T* as his main mode of communication. [Detecting real vs fake/bot T* accounts is a hard problem in and of itself.]
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I might eventually -- it's going to take some time to gather all the data.
I also wonder how many have those 8 digit random string of number at the end of their name.
Not necessarily Jason. Big data should be used carefully, with modeling and causal reasoning. The way Twitter is designed might be responsible for that pattern, as well as some fishy operation, difficult to disentangle all effects. Deeper analysis definitively needed.
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What do you mean by "casual reasoning?" I am not drawing any conclusions but merely stating a fact that warrants more investigation. As far as I am aware, no one has published analysis on this (or at least I haven't found any).
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Interesting as always, Jason! 👍 I just wanted to reference a nice visualization in this thread: nytimes.com/interactive/20 Plotting the sequence of followers vs their creation date can be extremely insightful for quickly spotting major patterns and anomalies!