New Insight: Your most famous follower #1979
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So, running some data on a large twitter data set: I think that most people would be excited to be followed by many of the names on this list, even some in the 10k+ follows range. (Even though, that obviously means they can't read even a small percent of their stream.) I can't think of a good way to differentiate auto-follow bot/behavior though.
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My thought is that the interesting follower insight would still give the user the good tinglies of one of these followers, but I don't feel like it's very interesting to have BarackObama as my most famous follower — or, rather, I don't think it's interesting in a personal-best sense to be one of the 650k people that account follows. Thoughts, @anildash? My suggestion was that we pick some cut-off of # of followeds (2,000? 5,000? 10,000?) so that auto-follow (or just follow-happy) accounts don't end up as your most famous follower — I just think that would be disappointing. At the point that someone follows over a certain threshold, their following you doesn't really seem all that special, which should be the point. (As a 2k+ follower of people, you may have some more developed thoughts on this.) I'm open to being dissuaded. |
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One-liner
Your most famous follower
Full explainer
This is sort of a personal-best insight. It's superficial, but there's also kind of a thrill that comes with being followed by someone with a lot of followers — especially if that user isn't just an auto-follow. (So similar to the discerning follower, but just measuring it as a personal best.)
Ideally it should make the user feel a sense of validation/pride. Failing that, it should just provide some perspective, gives the user a better understanding of their network.
Audience for the insight
This insight applies to Twitter and Instagram — could apply to Facebook, but I don't think that's in line with how people actually use Facebook.
This insight applies to users regardless of activity.
It could be a first-run insight.
How often this insight runs
After an initial baseline is set, this would be triggered by a new follower with a larger follower count (might need to regularly check/update the growth of the previous baseline).
Headline
"new" if baseline previously set
Emphasis: High
Body
If baseline previously set, add: "%new_follower has unseated %old_follower as your most %service-famous follower."
Criteria and logic
Included elements
Graphic could be user's banner?
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