Social Interfacing

Twitter is a social network in which young people and adults interact with each other. It is relatively new and it is just like Face book. You can register on it and try and find friends and love ones that have been missing for some time. The signing process is relatively easy. All you have to do is provide your email address, full names, and a username that would enable you to lock on into the website and lastly you need a password. You can write a blog on the site and you can interact with other individuals.

The most popular of the features to me right now has to be to see just how popular some people are in the US or the world at large. To find out how popular somebody is, what you do is go to the find person section, type the person's name and voila you get their popularity numbers .I was just playing on the site today and it was surprising to me looking at some of the numbers.

Michael Jordan who is now retired from professional basketball as a player had about 25000 followers. He follows four people on twitter. The list of people that he follows includes Oprah.

Kobe Bryant, I was surprise had just close to 2513 followers, he tracks 16 of his friends on the website.

Lebron James has 6483 followers; he keeps track of 100 people, busy for a popular guy.
Golfer Tiger Woods had about 13000 followers; his number of followers is close to that of Michael Jordan.

I kept looking and then I hit on the people that are really popular in the US.

Shaq, who did his college education at LSU and still plays professional basketball, is at just under 1.9million followers. He keeps track of 555 of his friends on the website. This is a huge following for the soon to be retired basketball player. I was real surprise at just how popular he is in the US. He has openly expressed his desire to be a sheriff once he retires from the game of basketball. Maybe he should be looking at a higher position like running for Governor in the state of Louisiana and why not maybe run for the top job of the nation, president of the United States.

President Barrack Obama's followers where close to that of Shaq at just under 1.9 million followers. The President though had everybody beat by a huge margin in terms of people that he keeps track of on the site. His number stands at 800,000. Nobody came anywhere close to that number in terms of people that you keep track of on the website. For somebody who is the Chief executive officer of the nation, where does he get the time to keep in touch with all these people, just amazing?

Oprah tops the list with the most followers with just under 2million people keeping track of her on the website. She keeps track of four people on the site and the people that she follows include, you guess it Shaq.

Former President George Walker Bush has 23 followers. Bill Clinton has 1803 followers and he keeps track of nine individuals on the website.

Out of the US, I put in Nelson Mandela's name and he had 1108 individuals that are his followers. He keeps track of six people.