Considering that it’s August, a gain of 266 new followers on Twitter in the last few days is excellent news — it’s a more than 20% increase.\u00a0 We’ll remind people of this from time to time, and in the fall should see further increases.\u00a0 If we pick up another 350 followers, we’ll have overtaken even the AFL-CIO, which appears to be the most popular of the union Twitterers (though I haven’t done an exhaustive investigation).<\/p>\n
Oh, and we’re no longer in the top 35,000 Twitterers — we’re now in the top 28,000, having jumped over 7,000 others in the last few days.\u00a0 To make the top 1,000 Twitterers we’d need about 43,000 followers, so that’s not going to happen any time soon.\u00a0 And to put things in perspective, there are already 99 Twitterers with a million followers or more<\/strong> apiece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Considering that it’s August, a gain of 266 new followers on Twitter in the last few days is excellent news — it’s a more than 20% increase.\u00a0 We’ll remind people of this from time to time, and in the fall should see further increases.\u00a0 If we pick up another 350 followers, we’ll have overtaken even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}