Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

Tag: Twitter

Stephen Fry goes nuclear.

Followcost is a great little application which works out the cost of following celebrities on Twitter. Here is the cost of following @stephenfry


It strikes me that celebrities are caught in a cleft stick, someone as popular as Stephen Fry has over 208,000 followers(The old Radio Luxenbourg radio frequency for us nerds 🙂 and is in turn following  over 54,000 folks. This means that he can only respond to a minuscule portion of tweets without seriously overloading everyone’s twitter timeline and yet folks moan at him for not responding!

Think I will stick to just following a few folks that I  know well 🙂 even with that I had to silence @scobleizer with his 22 updates a day!

Thanks to Gigaom for the link.

Geoff and his Twitterings

After reading the history of Twitter over at @Dom‘s blog  140 characters and how it was conceived “We happened to be on top of the slide on the north end of South Park.
It was sunny and brisk. We were eating Mexican food. His idea made us
stop eating and start talking.”

Thought I would check out my Twitter stats on TweetStats since I joined in November 2006.


Interesting I’ve never gone above 209 tweets per month. Even though I can use it on the iPhone. My most used iPhone app. is gpstwit with 112 tweets. Least used is Twinkle at 43.

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Twitter facts

Interesting wordle of all my twitters, compiled at tweetstats,  over the past 26 months at the rate of 3.9 tweets per day 🙂

Thanks to Sally for the heads up!

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