Twitter has given me a small taste of “famous for being famous” of the Paris Hilton variety 🤔
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I’d say the first few thousands were grandfathered in from blog readership, but most twitter followers seem only vaguely aware or entirely unaware of stuff I post off twitter.
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Beyond 10k I suspect preferential attachment is the main reason. Like joining a queue on the theory that anything with a queue must be worth it.
“10k followers... there must be something there...”
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Yeah but I just ran across you in a book I'm reading and I'm like I follow him on Twitter.

