Gaining on the Stars
September 16th 2009 08:41
I hadn't known until today that there was a site that records - down to the last 'follower' - the twits who have the largest following on Twitter.com at any time. It's called Twitterholic.com, which is fairly appropriate, and it shows that celebrities - as you might guess - are amongst the top-ranking Twits on the Net.
Oprah, rather surprisingly, has dropped quite a few notches, and Ashton Kutcher comes at the top. Well, to put it more exact, he's number one, but there's a number nought above him. That would be rather annoying, I'd think, especially as the particular Twitter doesn't actually have that many followers. It's emurse.com (jobsearch) and it has - at this moment - 3,929 followers. Kutcher has 3,573,121, which, according to my maths, is actually a little higher - by three and a half million at least.
I have no idea why emurse is sitting at the top of the screen. Some quirk of the site, perhaps. Or else it was really, really the top and took some weight loss supplements and has lost its real first place. Maybe it's only there because it's been there a long time - 30 months, supposedly. It's a genuine site, so there's nothing quirky there. Who knows.
Anyway, Ellen DeGeneres is in second place, and Britney Spears is third. (Plainly I follow the wrong sort of people - and the wrong sort of people follow me...) These top three are all in the 3 million league, but the fourth place goes to a 2 million leaguer: CNN News. Twitter itself comes 5th (which might also be a bit of a surprise) and someone called Kim Kardashian comes next. I'm sure there are people in the world who know her, but I don't, and her site didn't entice me to get to know her any further.
The same applies to Ryan Seacrest, who's apparently a radio host, and more. Obviously the continental limitations of Twitter are coming into play here. A couple more steps down and we've reached Oprah, and then - wait for it - some bloke called Barack Obama.
After that it's a free for all, with Mrs Kutcher coming in next and Lance Armstrong not far behind. Cold Play gets in line, along with the New York Times, which has finally understood that things are no longer just about print, and then we're into a mix of news, celebrities, and more people I've never heard of.
When I put my own Twitter name in, Twitterholic claims I'm ranked 571,565th on Twitterholic! by followers, and 518th in their location on Twitterholic! by followers in 'New Zealand.' That's not actually too bad, though what it really means is that there are only 517 people in NZ who twit more than me, and 571, 564 in the world. Maybe I really am creeping up the list!
Seemingly my stats were last done in April this year, when I had 13 followers, 9 friends (that is, people I'm following), and 38 updates. As of today I have 44 followers, 25 friends, and 286 updates. By the time this post goes to press that'll be 288 (I've just tweeted my stats!). It's interesting that more people follow me than I follow myself.
Well, this has been an interesting exercise - I think!
Oprah, rather surprisingly, has dropped quite a few notches, and Ashton Kutcher comes at the top. Well, to put it more exact, he's number one, but there's a number nought above him. That would be rather annoying, I'd think, especially as the particular Twitter doesn't actually have that many followers. It's emurse.com (jobsearch) and it has - at this moment - 3,929 followers. Kutcher has 3,573,121, which, according to my maths, is actually a little higher - by three and a half million at least.
I have no idea why emurse is sitting at the top of the screen. Some quirk of the site, perhaps. Or else it was really, really the top and took some weight loss supplements and has lost its real first place. Maybe it's only there because it's been there a long time - 30 months, supposedly. It's a genuine site, so there's nothing quirky there. Who knows.
Anyway, Ellen DeGeneres is in second place, and Britney Spears is third. (Plainly I follow the wrong sort of people - and the wrong sort of people follow me...) These top three are all in the 3 million league, but the fourth place goes to a 2 million leaguer: CNN News. Twitter itself comes 5th (which might also be a bit of a surprise) and someone called Kim Kardashian comes next. I'm sure there are people in the world who know her, but I don't, and her site didn't entice me to get to know her any further.
The same applies to Ryan Seacrest, who's apparently a radio host, and more. Obviously the continental limitations of Twitter are coming into play here. A couple more steps down and we've reached Oprah, and then - wait for it - some bloke called Barack Obama.
After that it's a free for all, with Mrs Kutcher coming in next and Lance Armstrong not far behind. Cold Play gets in line, along with the New York Times, which has finally understood that things are no longer just about print, and then we're into a mix of news, celebrities, and more people I've never heard of.
When I put my own Twitter name in, Twitterholic claims I'm ranked 571,565th on Twitterholic! by followers, and 518th in their location on Twitterholic! by followers in 'New Zealand.' That's not actually too bad, though what it really means is that there are only 517 people in NZ who twit more than me, and 571, 564 in the world. Maybe I really am creeping up the list!
Seemingly my stats were last done in April this year, when I had 13 followers, 9 friends (that is, people I'm following), and 38 updates. As of today I have 44 followers, 25 friends, and 286 updates. By the time this post goes to press that'll be 288 (I've just tweeted my stats!). It's interesting that more people follow me than I follow myself.
Well, this has been an interesting exercise - I think!
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