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pyrotechnick
url - tweets - followers - ratio

http://twitter.com/adobe - 10,420 - 139,670 - 13.40

http://twitter.com/apple - 0 - 12,207 - ∞

http://twitter.com/facebook - 997 - 5,673,552 - 5,690.62

http://twitter.com/google - 3,820 - 5,382,253 - 1,408.97

http://twitter.com/hp - 17,318 - 162,246 - 9.37

http://twitter.com/microsoft - 3,504 - 346,880 - 99.00

http://twitter.com/mozilla - 2,044 - 9,943 - 4.86

http://twitter.com/nokia - 15,533 - 351,303 - 22.62

http://twitter.com/opera - 3,529 - 104,859 - 29.71

http://twitter.com/samsung - 8,863 - 332,269 - 37.49

http://twitter.com/twitter - 1,470 - 14,420,774 - 9,810.05

Excluding Apple, I'm not entirely sure what this measures.

Twitter-ness?

zegmas
it's called "social proof", instead of "Twitter-ness"
pyrotechnick
Does "social proof" generally account for gaming?

For instance, what if Microsoft chooses not to report spam accounts whilst Apple does?

It would be very much related to the rate of retweets as this is primarily how information traverses Twitter.

I think the formula is something like trendiness - honesty.