Today I hit 200 followers on my secondary twitter account (@7T1). Woot! This account is not yet a year old and was started in order to keep some separation between the different things that I tweet about. In a nutshell, the @7T1 account is for science and technology related stuff. This includes a lot of stuff about gadgety subjects such as Apple and Android, but also coverage of another of my pet subjects: Unix and Perl. In contrast, my main twitter account (@kbradnam) is really for everything else. In particular, I tweet quite a lot about the lovely town where I live. As the following graph shows, my main account has been growing at almost twice the rate as my secondary account.

I'm okay with that because I probably tweet twice as much with my @kbradnam hat on as I do when using my @7T1 account. Notice also that the growth of @7T1 has been much smoother than @kbradnam. I'm not quite sure why this is. I imagine that twitter is getting a bit better at blocking spam-related accounts these days and maybe they have fewer large-scale purges of dubious accounts. If you look at the early growth of @kbradnam, you will see that it flatlines for a little while before growing again. This period coincided with the month that I gave up using twitter and facebook. This suggests that you need to keep on tweeting to gain followers.

There is some, but not too much, overlap between the followers of these accounts. Using the twtrfrnd.com site, I can see that there are 58 people who follow both accounts. This means I have a net following of 704 users. This still wouldn't change my position in the list of Top Davis Twitter Users though. Having two accounts can sometimes be a pain as a) I sometimes post from the wrong account and b) there are some tweets which I think would appeal to the  demographics of both accounts. I try to not cross-post to both accounts at once, but very occasionally I will do so. 

Thanks to everyone who follows me (either version of me that is). I hope that at least some of my tweets are found to be informative and/or entertaining. If my tweeting 'career' were to come to a sudden end (perhaps due to a bizarre gardening accident), I think that I could rest easy knowing that at least I gave the world #cheesenews.