Sheer number of followers, without other info, *does not matter* (except at extremes). Most followers are as useful or even less useful than paid bot followers.
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High quality followers can improve the quality of discourse: -help with fact-checking -provide more resources than they take with attention -bring up important considerations -call you on your BS -loop in other high quality followers
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Replying to @mesolude
Passive followers may be useless to you, but are you not interested spreading what you have learned? Even if they may not have anything valuable to add.
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Replying to @kivaari
Definitely, especially if the followers are active enough to learn from it vs if I'm one of 1000s of people they follow
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Replying to @mesolude
Yeah that sounds a lot less egoistic
In the meantime I though about the issue a bit more and I think the sheer number of followers actually does matter. But I couldn't really fit it into one tweet.
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+1 to longform writeups! Twitter sure encourages simplification. Increasing # of followers does increase prob that the followers are useful. To be more precise, I think # of followers is a /much weaker/ indication of value than is commonly expected
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