Unexpected patterns in data

[Craig Good]

I don't know what these patterns mean, but it's kind of interesting.

[Scott Hotes]

What does it mean that RyanSeacrest made the last graph?  Is this 

also somehow significant!?

I have to imagine that the "spikes" at multiples of 100, assuming they

are real, relate to some dynamic in how Twitter deals with producing user

feeds, that then in some subtle way causes this.  At least that's my guess.

Is the other option some kind of psychological milestones in attaining

more followers? 

Scott

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 11:29 PM, Craig Good <clg...@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't know what these patterns mean, but it's kind of interesting.

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[vince koloski]

My guess is that the spikes are bots. When I was actively using my twitter account, The majority of my followers were porn bots who showed up within a few days of activating my account. It would seem to be easy to program them to follow precise numbers of accounts for easy or response tracking etc.

 

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[Craig Good]

> On Nov 3, 2016, at 08:07 AM, Scott Hotes <sah...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> What does it mean that RyanSeacrest made the last graph? Is this
> also somehow significant!?

No idea. I had to do a web search to even know who he is.

Vince’s idea on bots for the spikes makes some sense.






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[jack saunders]

To a first approximation it seems to say that the more you play at Twitter (the more people you follow) the more followers you will have.  While the actual activities of tweeting and tweet reading are different, they roll up undeniably into time online...which appears to be the bottomline message -- that success in the social media sphere is primarily a function of time available.

On Nov 2, 2016, at 11:29 PM, Craig Good <clg...@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't know what these patterns mean, but it's kind of interesting.

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