Not Your Nth Follower

by Dave Briccetti

People on Twitter often proclaim, “Congratulations to Person X, our Nth follower!,” where N is 1,000 or some other nice big round number. But this is almost always wrong. Run this simulation to see why.

Probability of a follow each cycle:
Probability of an unfollow each cycle:
Followers goal:
Cycle time (ms):

Cycle: 0, Event:

Current Followers: 0

Former Followers