Tweets per Follower

Some numbers on tweets per follower as a measurement of a twitter user
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"Time on Twitter" from: http://howlongontwitter.com/default.aspx

Numbers of tweets and followers sampled from their timeline during the early evening 25th April 2012.
- not done at precisely the same time
- taking Twitter's tweet count as being accurate (deletions, miscounts etc... not able to assess)

@jamesrbuk		Since May 17, 2009:	1,074 days	32,205 tweets	29.98/day
			Followers:   9,525					 3.38/follower

@James_Macintyre	Since April 07, 2010:	  749 days	 5,277 tweets	 7.05/day
			Followers:   7,059					 0.75/follower

@helenlewis		Since June 18, 2007:	1,773 days	23,925 tweets	13.49/day
			Followers:   9,677					 2.47/follower

@bengoldacre		Since June 09, 2007:	1,782 days	25,222 tweets	14.15/day
			Followers: 189,727					 0.13/follower

@arusbridger		Since January 26, 2009:	1,185 days	 2,319 tweets	 1.96/day
			Followers:  74,864					 0.03/follower

And me, a regular member of the public who gets a bit ranty about the telly on twitter:
@cjjmccray		Since July 17, 2009:	1,013 days	33,799 tweets	33.37/day
			Followers:   1,310					25.80/follower


YES!  Higher numbers in both metrics - so I win!  No, wait now...how does this work?

This (frankly pisspoor) piece of pseudo-analysis misses a number of other issues here, such as:
- how many of these tweets are conversational @ replies to specific individuals?
- how many are just "I think THIS!" broadcasts to their followers?

And is there any point in comparing journalists, scientists, newspaper editors and regular members of the public?

Probably not.