There are people who have a lot of followers due to them having some form of celebrity. People like Jeff Atwood have talked about how due to their large number of followers they are able to get very high quality answers to questions that they have.
For some one just joining Twitter who doesn't have a "name" in the industry this type of question and answer usage is alot less useful.
I remember when Guy Kawasaki started with twitter ("god help me, I am on Twitter" or something like that - he had no idea, like nobody else had). Now he has 125,431 followers and apparently the ability to "kawaski" a site (as I learned from tweetingtoohard).
I think with > 100000 it really becomes a different game. A friend of mine would buy any CD that Veronica Belmont recommends in her Twitter stream. She has > 600000 followers. That is an economic factor.
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I'd put a third category of people in your list.
There are people who have a lot of followers due to them having some form of celebrity. People like Jeff Atwood have talked about how due to their large number of followers they are able to get very high quality answers to questions that they have.
For some one just joining Twitter who doesn't have a "name" in the industry this type of question and answer usage is alot less useful.
I remember when Guy Kawasaki started with twitter ("god help me, I am on Twitter" or something like that - he had no idea, like nobody else had). Now he has 125,431 followers and apparently the ability to "kawaski" a site (as I learned from tweetingtoohard).
I think with > 100000 it really becomes a different game. A friend of mine would buy any CD that Veronica Belmont recommends in her Twitter stream. She has > 600000 followers. That is an economic factor.