The "median" Twitter user has 72 followers, 156 friends, has been listed 0 times, has liked things 944 times and has made 24 tweets that included media in them.
(Taken from a sample of 100 million active users)
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The "average" Twitter user has 1,064 followers, 400 friends, has been listed 6 times, has liked things 6,181 times and has 306 tweets with media in them.
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(averages don't really paint a true picture when you have huge outliers in the data)
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With twitter data tho, even the median is untrustworthy. Imagine if twitter hand only 100 accounts. But 75 of them are machine-generated accounts. The machines vs humans are at least bimodal, so the median & average are the median & avg of 2 distributions.
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