UPDATE: 2022-11-17 I got to about 55000 followers ultimately, but that number has been falling for about 7 or 8 years through natural attrition and followers being closed down. Currently, just under 40000 just at the point everyone is worried that twitter will go down the tubes because of the Leon Umsk purchase in October.
Twitter Counter tracks statistics of more than 10 million Twitter users, it’s always interesting for us uber-geeks to take a look at such stats and having made The Independent’s Top 100 British Twitter users (at #73 this year, down from #47 in 2011), I thought I’d show you the enormous impact such a placement can have, or not, as the case may be. Sciencebase did gain several hundred new followers on Twitter and Twitter counter reckons we’ll have 16k within a week or so. 100k within a mere five years! Thanks for joining us to those who came along after The Independent published their list.
You can see from the 3-month rolling chart that the impact of a British national newspaper on a site like this is not enormous…
