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...

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

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Fauxest Fauxlowers

Who's fauxlowing the most people?
  1. BarackObama: 736,771
  2. WholeFoods: 581,280
  3. DowningStreet: 482,140
  4. TheOnion: 475,726
  5. britneyspears: 424,156
  6. zappos: 391,613
  7. threadless: 355,664
  8. charitywater: 283,256
  9. GuyKawasaki: 235,986
  10. MrTweet: 234,586

Best Ratios

Who has the most followers per friend?
  1. woot: 125,976
  2. matisyahu: 31,475
  3. giel3fm: 26,060
  4. newlywedsontjob: 22,101
  5. twibbon: 21,376
  6. IAMQUEENLATIFAH: 18,830
  7. aplusk: 14,286
  8. st_vincent: 11,571
  9. ericharr: 9,779
  10. TrulyWeird: 6,213

Latest Stats

  • Twitter users we track: 1,385,535
  • Fauxlowers:
    • Based on median threshold: 57.6%
    • Based on average threshold: 22.1%
  • Our Members' Fauxlower Thresholds:
    • Median: 250
    • Average: 1,148
  • How many do our members follow?
    • Maximum: 116,767
    • Average: 1,444
    • Median: 392
  • 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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