Courts failed to distinguish between ringleaders and followers, according to a Birmingham solicitor with more than 20 years' experience.
Verified pages — the owners of which get access to a special app called Mentions — will soon be able to send live videos to their followers, according to Techcrunch.
In all, the Grimm campaign collected more than $500,000 from the followers, according to numerous interviews and an analysis of Mr. Grimm's campaign records.
One of the best-loved twitterers, Paul Terry Walhaus, a gray-haired blogger from Austin, Tex., has 9,177 friends and 1,851 followers, according to the tracking site Twitterholic.
In the videotaped meeting with his brother, for example, Mr. Jeffs was dictating "a message of encouragement" to his followers, according to one defense document.
Jayaram Jayalalitha, the state's chief minister and a former film actress, has Jaya TV, which is owned by a group of her party's followers, according to a senior executive at the channel.
Administrators of the schools often deny any official connection to the movement, which has no formal organization or official membership but operates through a network of followers, according to Hakan Yavuz, a political science professor at the University of Utah and co-editor of a 2003 book on the organization.
Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus, by Thomas Cahill (Nan A. Talese/Anchor, $14), is a penetrating study of "the phenomenon of Jesus, as experienced by those who knew him best and by the first generations of his followers," according to its author.
It attracted more than 6,000 followers, according to Swedish media, with users adding further insults to the pictures, and naming some of those photographed.
Brands on Google+ are seeing tremendous growth in followers, according to a new report from SEO and digital marketing startup BrightEdge.
Earlier this month, Romney saw an implausible spike of 150,000 Twitter followers, and many of these likely fake accounts had less than 2 followers, according to some crack reporting by The Atlantic.
