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		patorjk on Jan 31, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake ... I'm having trouble understanding the follower visualizations. Does the X axis represent her followers in the order they started following her and the Y axis is the date they (the follower) joined Twitter?

7dare on Jan 31, 2018 | [–]

The original article suffered from the same flaw, and they never really explained it.

duskwuff on Jan 31, 2018 | [–]

Correct.

It's a kind of weird visualization, but the patterns which emerge are pretty striking (and obviously artificial).

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