Hoosgot

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/04/02/One-Thousand-Followers asks Hoosgot,

I’m writing this in an airplane to Vancouver from Chicago. When I get home and read my mail, if recent trends continue I will hear about a few new Twitter followers, bringing the total up over one thousand. I think that with Twitter, something important is happening. But I’m having trouble figuring out what. Let’s be accurate: This does not mean that there are a thousand actual human beings reading my deathless tweets. Quite a few people try out Twitter for a few days or weeks, find it stupid or trivial or irritating, and never go back. And then some “followers” are actually spammers: Twitter-feeds promoting some product or cause or person, who “follow” others on the chance that the …

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