If it's true at X, then it's not true for any number > X. The question is the smallest number for which this is true.
"After _____ followers, replies become a lot less productive overall and you have to really watch what you say so people can't easily get attention for themselves by misrepresenting you."
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Correspondingly - I don’t reply to anyone that has X followers as it’s clear at some point it won’t be a conversation it’s just a PR account
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I reply to people with tens of thousands of followers, and the sometines reply. It's only a few of them that I reply to with the intention of having a conversation though, so I understand your position.
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Wouldn't we need tens of thousands of followers ourselves (or have otherwise conducted extensive analyses) to have informative opinions on this? Seems a weird topic to conduct a poll on. That said, I wonder if the thresholds vary for informative replies vs careful posts.
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Sometimes it's useful to know what people guess to be ballpark-true and not just what they have strong evidence to support. FWIW I already have a number from a conversation with high-follower count friends a few months ago, and it's one of the possible answers
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Even with a few fellowers this can happen
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Not enough ironic options
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