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smaller number of people than follow them. Many of these turn out—unsurprisingly—to
be organisations such as the BBC or New York Times rather than individuals.
e authors call the second group acquaintances: users who tend to exhibit reciprocity
in their relationships. irdly, there are the evangelists: a group who follow far more people
than they have followers (in the thousands). e authors’ interpretation of this was that
evangelists contact and follow anyone they can, in the hope that this might be reciprocated.
However, some of this third group might also be spammers.
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