Twitter Follower Growth
- 1 minStarting at the beginning of May, I’ve been monitoring the follower counts of the Democratic presidential candidates for the 2020 election using a script that queries Twitter’s API once a minute. It’s starting to accumulate a pretty decent amount of data - I’ll have to do a serious analysis soon.
This is mostly meant as a hello world post for the blog, but to put a little meat in here, here’s a plot of the change in follower counts for who I consider to be the top 5 contenders right now. 
I’ve also been tracking my own followers for almost as long. I’ll indulge in a litle navel-gazing, since today I cracked 1500 followers. 
Looks like I had a little dip in my numbers on 5/13, I wonder if it was something I said. But overall not too shabby, at least in a relative sense.
I’m going to have to pick up the pace if I ever want to catch up though! 
Edit:
Hah, I went back and looked at what I tweeted around 5/13. Turns out the evening of 5/12 I posted a meme on behalf of a friend, Charles Frye, who made it immediately after we watched a new episode of Game of Thrones together.
#GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/zcWaQeMnMp
— Alex Naka (@gottapatchemall) May 13, 2019
It was a bit of a dud. Could it be Charlie’s fault that these people unfollowed me? Impossible to say.
In his defense, we weren’t the only people thinking along these lines.
Everyone, relax, Daenerys is not mad, she had airpods in, she couldn't hear the bells 😂 #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/BHLJR2v0oL
— Jon Snow (@LordSnow) May 13, 2019
“Daenerys, the bells are ringing!”
— Sebastian Bouscher-Helbig (@The_mightyb00sh) May 13, 2019
“Oh no she has AirPods in she can’t hear us”#gameofthrones #clout pic.twitter.com/ugukVep7MM
Maybe it’s a sign that I need to stick to posting science stuff.
