Twitter’s Golden Ratio

Twitter’s Golden Ratio – Is there a valid co-relation between your Twitter followers and your Twitter following? i.e. Twitter’s Golden Ratio.

In other words, if a person has more followers than they are following, they’re probably a good person to at least consider following. Right?

Conversely, if they are following more than they have followers, the opposite may be true. Right?

I have just read an interesting article on techcrunch.com in which the author is putting forward a “thesis” concerning the co-relation between your Twitter followers and following and calculates your so-called Twitter’s Golden Ratio.

I am not sure about the validity of this analysis and where it is heading. So here are some excerpts and you be the judge:

“Since the beginning of Twitter, people have been complaining about hugely positive ratios: “He only follows 10 people,” and the like. The implication being made is that if a lot of people follow you, but you don’t follow a lot of people, you aren’t a “true” Twitter user. That talk has lessened a bit with some of the celebrities now on Twitter who can’t possibly be expected to follow millions of people, but plenty of users still bitch about followers/following inequalities.”

“If a person has more followers than they are following, they’re probably a good person to at least consider following. If they are following more than they have more followers, the opposite may be true. The greater the discrepancy between the two numbers, the more likely each of those is true — to a certain point, since celebrities like Oprah throw this system out of whack. But for regular, non-Hollywood celebrities, the system works remarkably well as a filter.”

Interesting?

You can click on Twitter’s Golden Ratio to read the full article.

I will be interested in your learned comments.

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