WTF is AuthorIsEligibleForConnectBoostFeature? I guess this may explain why some people seem to accumulate a lot of followers very quickly while all those trying to grow organically seem to struggle. You can imagine if a lot of people benefit from this Connect Boost feature, it would make it impossible for others to be noticed through the noise created by all of these boosted individuals. That's essentially what Twitter feels like ATM. Recently, I manually unfollowed anyone who I suspect may have received a special boost from the algorithms.