If I can’t have money, I might as well have influence. And things are ticking along nicely with that plan.
I reached 1,000 Twitter followers in February of this year, which was about 21 months into my Twitter tenure.
As of right now, I have 1,499. Which shows a certain modest acceleration. I had reached 500 at the end of April 2010.
The good thing about my current pace is I’ve done it without having to follow too many people. When I was building the first thousand, I found that my followers grew at a good pace if I followed about half as many as were following me. Now, the number I’m following is 637, which means followers are coming a little more easily — probably because I was named one of the Twitterati, right? Every bit of influence, or perceived influence, helps.
Who will be the 1,500th? It could be you.
Oh, and no fair unfollowing me to follow me back and try to be the 1,500th. What’s the point? As I say, there’s no money in it.
Just glory.
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And my one-thousand-five-hundredth follower was… @dpulis of “Charleston, SC/Newark, NJ,” who says “i write code on the internet for a living.”
The 1,501st was someone I know: @shirakramer, currently of Columbia. Shira is handling media for the Obama re-election campaign in SC. I had breakfast with her recently.
Congratulations, y’all. You are now famous, but just a bit….
I guess your blog readers are just not as important as your Twitter followers. [sniff]
I have no idea how many of y’all there are. Maybe if I institute registration (which appears to be necessary for y’all to have that edit feature you want), we can find out. Of course, even that wouldn’t capture everyone; there would still be plenty of lurkers.
You know, I TRIED having a system of registration when I started this blog. But too many people complained about not being able to figure out the process, and when I tried walking them through it, it seemed WordPress didn’t behave the same for them as for me, and I just gave up.
I thought my photo appears because I registered…
So you have 1500 people who feel they need to know whenever you go to the bathroom, leave work for home, or attending a Democratic function?