[Air-L] Question: Twitter follower count distribution

[Jakob Jünger]

Dear Aram,

that question also interests me.

Based on data from two projects, I assume the distribution doesn't
follow a power law, but rather a lognormal distribution (maybe MLP,
modified lognormal power-law?). Though, I didn't have time to dig into
it yet. See below, the first picture is based on follower counts of 350
German news outlets, the second is from a study about 1835 communication
scholars
(https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444819863413). It
looks to me like there are some tiers or superimposed distributions.
Sample size is somewhat small, maybe someone has insight into the
distributions on a larger data basis?

Cheers
Jakob












Am 06.05.2020 um 17:28 schrieb Aram Sinnreich:
> Hey Fellow AoIRistas,
>
> Quick question: Do you know of any top-down measures of the
> distribution of follower numbers for Twitter accounts? I'm sure the
> curve overall looks like a standard power law distribution, but I'm
> interested to know whether there are emergent tiers (e.g. <250;
> 251-2,500; 2501-10,000; 10,001+) or something along those lines.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Aram

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