You're Probably More Popular On Twitter Than You'd Think

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If popularity in life was measured by how many people follow you on Twitter, then maybe you're doing really well.

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The average Twitter account has just one follower.

We first saw this tweeted by Jon Bruner of O'Reilly Media and on The Awl.

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Twitter is still a very small community.

Reports O'Reilly Media,

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Almost nobody on Twitter is somebody: the median Twitter account has a single follower. Among the much smaller subset of accounts that have posted in the last 30 days, the median account has just 61 followers. If you've got a thousand followers, you're at the 96th percentile of active Twitter users.