A company can easily lose focus when it is deluged with unprofitable and obscure ideas from fervent users.
Although the Chromebook has attracted fervent users, there are many reasons why it will have trouble in enterprises.
If public opinion swings too far away from cars, some environmentalists warn that the car industry could find itself in the same circumstances as cigarette manufacturers, who have hung on to their most fervent users even as public policy, health concerns and public opinion have cast a shadow over their products.
What's more interesting than those rankings, though, is what the report tells us about social media's most fervent users.
Fervent emoji users have expressed their sentiments with extensive use of these Emojis, on the only day of the year that they can.
Likewise, Macintosh and PalmPilot users are fervent customers and activists.
So far the firm has relied entirely on word-of-mouth promotion by its fervent adherents to attract users.France's politicians have also noticed Netvibes, and have courted Mr Krim.
But the problem with this open-source, market-led approach is that it can take no responsibility for the impact – for better or worse – that these devices have on end users, or on the fervent hopes and desires of their families.
"The profile of experienced Internet users is different because they're not as fervent in their Internet use, [which] explains why further growth in the broadband population is likely to slow down," Horrigan says.
The company announced in December that user growth was at 30 million MAUs, so growth has been fervent in 2017 so far.
Many Weibo users have pointed out the parallels between Xuexi Qiangguo and the fervent "Little Red Book" campaigns of the Mao era.
