100,000 Twitter Followers

At roughly 7:30 am on June 9, the Freakonomics twitter account received its 100,000th follower. As far as we could tell, it is this Honolulu woman, who’ll have some schwag sent her way.

On that very day, Twitter experienced serious service outages, which we are sure is pure coincidence.
To date, the vast majority of our tweets are Twitter-fied versions of our blog posts. But with so many of you now following this feed, should we be doing more? If so, what? Or what not? Or why?