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It's a Lonely World: The Median Twitter User Has 1 Measly Follower
The median Twitter account has only one follower. That’s what Jon Bruner, a data journalist at O’Reilly Radar, found when he algorithmically queried the service about its users at random this fall. But then again, the median Twitter account doesn’t tweet that much, because a huge number of accounts on the service were created and left unused. So if you only include accounts that have tweeted in the past month, the median user has 61 followers.
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Most of those are abandoned accounts.
Yep, and lets not forget there is tons of people that own a lot more than one account.
61 followers, for people who actually use Twitter, makes much more sense.