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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The average doesn't have to be the mean, it has to be a number that represents the typical value of the sample. For very skewed distributions the median is more representative, but in other cases you might prefer the geometric mean, the mode, or other options.
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I did a thing about means a few weeks ago.
(Some "bot checkers" still use mean tweets/day as a heavily weighted criterion, gah)
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The Interpretation of Means
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by Zigmunt Bot.
When you see statistics for an account which includes an "average" value for its tweets-per-day over a period, it is important to understand what these figures do & do not imply.
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And neither median nor mean are necessarily good measures of central tendency if you have a lot of zeroes (which in this case I bet you do)!