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Last I heard, Twitter has 200 million users. So that means the top 0.01% of users get 50% of all tweet impressions. Tweet wealth is 100x more concentrated than financial wealth in America.


I'm curious what the graph of active users looks like.


It will look like a zipf distribution. ("Long tail")


If only each impression were monetizable in units...


It's kind of funny how willing the populace is willing to give more power to those who already have the most power.


We are talking volume here, right? This isn't digg mob style... My guess is that those 20K are spam bots?


I doubt it. Spam bots are at the other end of the spectrum, with large numbers of short lived, seldom noticed accounts. This has to be about the Justin Biebers and Charlie Sheens.




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