# How many "followings" do you have on Twitter **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 2, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-followings-do-you-have-on-twitter/651855 "2013-03-02T22:41:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-followings-do-you-have-on-twitter/651855/1 "2013-03-02T22:41:40Z")
How many people/enitities do you follow on Twitter? ---
**Author:** ![Rollo\_Tomasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-followings-do-you-have-on-twitter/651855/2 "2013-03-02T23:46:11Z")
Fourteen, at this moment. Depending on the time of year, it can go as high as twenty or as low as ten. ---
**Author:** ![markdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@markdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdash)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-followings-do-you-have-on-twitter/651855/3 "2013-03-03T07:41:12Z")
Like 98 right now. I like to actually read my timeline (or main feed or whatever the hell you call it) so I maintain my list regularly. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-followings-do-you-have-on-twitter/651855/4 "2013-03-03T13:55:29Z")
719 right now. But that doesn’t mean that they’re all active accounts. I could weed them, but if they’re not spamming me, meh, that’d take time I don’t really want to spend. I’d bet the number of active accounts is probably 1/3-1/2 of that. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-followings-do-you-have-on-twitter/651855/5 "2013-03-03T15:02:50Z")
You’d’ve done better with a breakdown by bigger spreads – 500 is not actually that big a number, so “more than 500” covers a huge amt. of territory. Most people who are actively engaged in Twitter have a large number of followees, and a more or less equal number of followers. I have (as of 10:00 Sunday morning) 1040 people I’m following, and 906 following me. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-followings-do-you-have-on-twitter/651855/6 "2013-03-03T18:23:56Z")
I’m at about 700 that I’m following. The way I see it is that there’s no way to read everything, so I like to make sure that there’s always new stuff going on, day or night. It’s just something to dip in and out of. I wonder how many of the first hundred or so that I followed, I still follow? Less than half I reckon. ---
**Author:** ![geneb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e4f/32.png) [@geneb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/geneb)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-followings-do-you-have-on-twitter/651855/7 "2013-03-04T02:25:26Z")
Zero. No twitter account, nor do I understand the reason for one.