A Twitter Equation: If accounts were ranked by #followers, approx. rank=exp(21 – 1.1*log(#followers)).
He also identified Jose Padilla, an American who was convicted in a Miami federal court in August on terrorism-related charges, as a low-ranking follower of Al Qaeda.
There are two important factors to keep in mind when considering the ranking of follower numbers.
Many, including biologist Jonathan Eisen, who was one of our original top 50 and who has argued that tweeting helps his career, took to Twitter to question why we conferred stardom based on a simple ranking of follower number, with some calling that a meaningless popularity contest.
The initiator was ranked 1, the first follower was ranked 2 and the rank of the jth follower was ranked j+1.
Mr. Buchanan, an accomplished political strategist, was able to stuff the dispirited local ranks with followers from his days on the edges of the Republican Party.
But they had all built loyal ranks of followers well beyond their social networks — they were evangelical Christian leaders whose inspirational messages of God's love perform about 30 times as well as Twitter messages from pop culture powerhouses like Lady Gaga.
According to the tracking site Twitterholic, N2NBroadway is ranked 210th, attracting more followers than celebrities like Paris Hilton and Stephen Colbert and brands like Starbucks.
July 1579 Ecija, Spain November 10, 1644 Madrid, Spain Luis Vélez de Guevara, (born July 1579, Ecija, Spain died Nov. 10, 1644, Madrid) Spanish poet, playwright, and novelist who ranks high among the followers of Lope de Vega and displays a gift for creating character.
For instance, here are the top 100 people on Twitter ranked by number of followers and here is another list ranked by the number of retweets.
There it has over 9.4 million followers, which ranks it inside the top five brands using the service, ahead of H&M, NBA, Adidas and many other household names.
