What determines the order of Twitter followers? – A quick guide
What determines the order of Twitter followers?
Twitter has become one of the fastest growing social networking sites online. It is easy to accumulate a large number of friends and followers in a very short time. The difficulty I have experienced is knowing how to find someone who is following me with whom I want to tweet for a particular reason. I found myself going through page after page of followers looking for their name or icon so I could tweet with them. This got me started wondering what determines Twitter’s follower order. I discovered two ways that help shed some light on how Twitter determines your follower order.
Icon Grid Follower Status
After you log in to your home page on Twitter, you have two options to access your followers. On the right side of the column, the first thing you’ll notice is the icon grid follower status. This is a six by six grid showing little faces of those following you. How do you determine who appears in your grid status? The truth is that a script shows random faces of those who follow you. You can log in multiple times and you will see different faces in different places each time. There is no logic in the faces that appear in this grid, they are all random. So if you have more than thirty-six people following you at the same time you will not be able to find that person you are looking for very easily through this method.
Followers/View All Links
Since the icon grid’s follower status isn’t much help if you have hundreds or thousands of followers, you have two other options for finding your friends on Twitter. You can click just below the follower status in the icon grid and select ‘See All’ or you can click the Followers link at the top below the number of followers you have. Both links take you to the same page. This is where you will have fan pages that seem to have no order to them.
What determines the order of Twitter followers? The most recent people who started following you will be on page one and the people who started following you a long time ago are towards the bottom. The order is based on when they started following you. The last person to follow you will be ranked number one on page one. So if you’re looking for someone specific, you need to know when they started following you. When they started following you, you determine the order in which they appear on Twitter.