social media marketing | social marketing strategy from social marketing expert Wayne Clayton | social marketing | facebook | twitter » UK Men’s Basketball Coach John Calipari http://socialmarketingexpert.org social marketing, social marketing strategy, social media marketing, Web 2.0 and social media optimization using social marketing facebook, twitter Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:54:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Can You TRUST Twitter’s Follower Numbers? http://socialmarketingexpert.org/uncategorized/can-you-trust-twitters-follower-numbers/ http://socialmarketingexpert.org/uncategorized/can-you-trust-twitters-follower-numbers/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:42:05 +0000 G. Wayne Clayton http://socialmarketingexpert.org/?p=906 Have you ever thought MAYBE those numbers Twitter quotes you could be off? Can you actually trust the number of followers Twitter gives you? Ask University of Kentucky Head Men’s Basketball Coach John Calipari.

I found this article by Eamonn Brennan at rivals.yahoo.com you might like…

If you look closely, you’ll notice the page says John Calipari has in excess of 800,000 followers. That would put him up there with the true Twitter heavyweights like Ashton Kutcher, whose blatant egomania led him to beg and borrow his way to 1,000,000 followers, as well as less notable folks, like some dude named Barack Obama. With 800,000 followers, Calipari would go from regionally famous basketball coach to national celebrity. He would be a star.

But if you check Calipari’s Twitter page now, you’ll find a whole different figure…

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