I Just Hit 1K Followers. I Will Trade 750 Of Them For A Dozen Donuts
Thoughts on follower stats.
I will admit I have been watching my follower numbers tick up for the past week, waiting for them to reach 1k. For me, it is sort of like watching my car odometer hit 100,000 miles. Or in my case 200,000 miles. Fun. But pointless.
Why the fascination with the number 1,000? I don’t really know. I guess humans like nice, round numbers. Although 1 isn’t very round. But according to Three Dog Night, it is the loneliest number. And “k” isn’t even a number. It’s hardly a letter. It is silent most of the time, for crying out loud.
But since this is Medium, I believe we are required by law, or contract, or user agreement, or peer pressure, or a bloggers desperation to find something to write about, to make some valuable observations about these sort of things.
So here are my insightful thoughts that I insightfully thought about this milestone. Whether you find them valuable depends on if your definition of valuable. If you think finding old gum stuck under a desk at school valuable, and still chewable, then these nuggets of thought value are right up your alley.
Since I already have 1 billion followers on Twitter, and 750k followers on Instagram, and 6 gazillion video views on YouTube, you…
