How Many of Your Twitter Followers
Are Ignoring Your Tweets?

A fauxlower (say "FOE lower" - from the French "faux" or "false") is a Twitter user who "follows" so many people that they can't skim, much less read, all their tweets. We'll help you find the real "friendlowers"...

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Exactly what'll happen:

  1. We'll send you to Twitter.com to authorize our app (you can revoke our access at any time).
  2. Twitter will return you here to configure your Fauxlowers account.
  3. We'll look up your followers and calculate how many are fauxlowers*! ;-)
  4. OPTIONAL (you can turn this off): We'll post ONE tweet with the results of our analysis to your Twitter account. (See what it'll say).

More Benefits:

  • Get access to back issues of the Social Media Influence Report.
  • Schedule future tweets and have them post to your account anytime you want.
  • Tag your Fauxlowers profile and find other Twitter users with the same tags.
  • More to come...

Click "Join" above to get started!

* You'll set the number of people someone has to be following to be counted as your "fauxlower" once you've signed up.

Honest Face
This purchase was a mistake I wasn't trying to buy this but it was to late.

Sand
I was pleasantly surprised with the new song and really, can't wait to hear the whole album. The song has ... (show more)

Dynamite
this wasn't what i expected from hearing the sample. the chorus was pretty catchy but other then that, i wa... (show more)

  

Fauxest Fauxlowers

Who's fauxlowing the most people?
  1. BarackObama: 716,175
  2. WholeFoods: 581,283
  3. Number10gov: 472,656
  4. britneyspears: 416,916
  5. yokoono: 399,416
  6. zappos: 384,977
  7. threadless: 349,345
  8. charitywater: 282,961
  9. GuyKawasaki: 282,591
  10. HootSuite: 259,364

Best Ratios

Who has the most followers per friend?
  1. TheOnion: 469,681
  2. 50cent: 152,707
  3. woot: 116,007
  4. cnnbrk: 110,443
  5. TweetPhoto: 104,097
  6. matisyahu: 74,003
  7. thesecretdaily: 65,009
  8. ramonmacedo_: 60,184
  9. realmadrid: 42,016
  10. BJMendelson: 31,874

Latest Stats

  • Twitter users we track: 2,521,286
  • Fauxlowers:
    • Based on median threshold: 53.4%
    • Based on average threshold: 19.7%
  • Our Members' Fauxlower Thresholds:
    • Median: 250
    • Average: 1,135
  • How many do our members follow?
    • Maximum: 159,411
    • Average: 1,778
    • Median: 455
  • Fauxlowers: Of all the Twitterers we track, how many are following too many people
  • Fauxlower Threshold: The number of people our members believe it's possible to really follow (I say 75 max!)
  • Average: The "arithmetic mean"
  • Median: Half of people are higher, half are lower

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