On the order of 200 000. Mark Zuckerberg has 44871 followers on Google+, so there are clearly at least 44871 users, but probably not more than a few times that.
Yesterday, though, he had 35000 followers. That growth rate clearly can't continue; at that rate, + would overtake FB in another month or two, and the entire world population 5 days later.
Do people even having 1.6 million Facebook "followers"? That's a lot more friends than I'd have time to confirm. I can't seem to find a Facebook page for him with nearly that many likes on it. However, he happens to have right around 1.6 million followers on Twitter.
Scoble has 1.5 million followers on G+? I submit that followers on G+ are EASY.
I've been using Livejournal since 2002 and have about 350 followers. I think maybe a hundred of them are still commenting on my posts intermittently. (Yeah, I still use LJ.)
I got on G+ when it came out. I have 232 followers. I think maybe three of them reply to my posts. Sometimes. (Not that I post to G+ a lot but still.)
That's a hell of a lot of followers in about eight months versus like 5-6 years of LJ being a pretty active place. It's not the 1.5mil Scoble has but it's a hell of a lot for someone who never posts, but seems to see a new follower every day.
I would also compare and contrast the age and follower count of my Twitter account, but I'm pretty sure a large percentage of my nearly 600 followers there are spambots or marketroids, and I don't feel like guesstimating how many actual humans are following my tweets.
Average Joe has a facebook account with a network of friends. They do not have a twitter account let alone any followers (Facebook DAU: 1.5 billion; Twitter DAU: 126 million)
Since I made the above post (two days ago) I now have 243 followers. All people who I'm in contact with on other platforms - I'm not even sure how they found me, but either way. The momentum is honestly accelerating. Sorry, 244 followers - just got another follow request.
Literally hundreds of millions of people. McDonalds alone has 62 million followers on Facebook. If half of the people on Facebook or Twitter follow a brand, that's over a half billion.
Oh really? Facebook's users numbers in the literal billions. Twitter's users numbers in the... what? 300 million or so? EDIT: Looks to be 450 million by some people's estimates.
Twitter remains a small fry compared to the real platforms. Locking itself out of the full size userbase of the world is incredibly stupid.
TikTok has 1.06 billion active monthly users. I think by any reasonable metric, Twitter's userbase is miniscule in comparison to the real bigwigs.
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Who is really out of touch between you and me? Do you have any numbers to back up the assertions you're making?
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126 million – The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
84% – Percent of social network sites with more women than men.
27.3 million – Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)
57% – Percentage of Twitter’s user base located in the United States.
4.25 million – People following @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher, Twitter’s most followed user).
350 million – People on Facebook.
50% – Percentage of Facebook users that log in every day.
500,000 – The number of active Facebook applications.
I actually think quite a few people have "thousands" of followers. I don't have anything to back this up, but I think you'd be surprised as to how many people follow the more popular people on twitter.
Yesterday, though, he had 35000 followers. That growth rate clearly can't continue; at that rate, + would overtake FB in another month or two, and the entire world population 5 days later.
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