Clarity Strategic^TM

A brief explanation. These are the top 30 Twitterers in Akron, OH as of this writing, #1 to 30 left to right, with their follower counts. The curve given by that equation there is an excellent fit for all but four or five of them, and the three points farthest from the curve have very small tweet counts, relative to their follower counts.

After you get past the top 10 or 12, you can fit the rest just as well with a straight line, pretty much, with the same few points just as far off, for the same reason. You will get increasing scatter after you get past the top couple dozen, but oh well.

What can you learn from a graph like this?

1. Follower count is overwhelmingly the number one consideration in a high Twitter Grader score. There's no use pretending it isn't true.
2. Tweet count is a secondary consideration, only noticeable when the tweet count is very low.
3. All other considerations don't matter.

You want a high Twitter Grader score? You get your follower count up. It's that simple. Unless in places other than Akron, the math somehow comes out different. This may be saying that, even for the most social of us, retweets are a very small portion of our Twitter reach.

By the way, can you find me on this graph? I'm waving. :-)