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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