Mr. Ran has a blog, a Twitter account that is being blocked by Chinese censors, with a modest 58,000 followers, and a Sina Weibo microblog with 71,000 followers.
The brand is also a "player on the social media front--its Facebook page has more than 1 million fans, its Twitter feed has a modest 2,323 followers (although some individual stores have their own feed), and a MySpace page keeps listeners updated on in-store music," writes Portfolio.
Still, she remains an outsider, little known except among a modest circle of followers.
Although two celebrated adaptations of True Grit have been filmed, Portis remains a writer's writer, not widely known beyond a modest circle of fanatic followers, Tartt among them.
Newell's followers count Messi, who grew up on a modest street here, among their ranks.
But O'Reilly's fanbase of nearly 600,000 followers on Vine and 370,000 on Twitter generated a modest TV audience, ending with 262,000 viewers on 3 November.
Nine months later, his channel has more than 100,000 subscribers: some way behind the site's biggest stars, who count their followers by the million, but enough, he says, to earn a modest income.
About a dozen tasty fried oysters provided a lot of appealing seafood for a modest $13 tab, and the stuffed shrimp, coiled around a dab of crab meat, will satisfy its followers.
Held over several days, the event has been held annually at Mani Bhavan, a modest two storied building which, for 17 years (1917-1934), served as the action headquarters for Gandhi and his followers during India's freedom movement.
