Overtaking 1 million people in a day (obscure twitter stats) & welcoming new twitter followers

Celebration followed quickly by mind numbing death by a thousand cuts. The morning so far. First the good news. Having moved into the top 18 million most followed folks on twitter ( not bad out of 500 million) yesterday I now appear to be in the top 17 million. Steven Fry watch out, I am right behind you. In your dreams my son.

I suspect that leapfrogging past 1 million people at this stage is not that hard (gaining 25 users). It will require rather larger net gains to get into the top 16 million, 15 million etc – indeed it will get harder and harder to overtake another million people as I move up the leader-board. I am not sure how many followers you have but the average is, I gather, 126. So, after 8 weeks I am at more than three times the average. But the average is, I gather, pulled down by millions of accounts with 0 followers. After recent revalations about Facebook I am not sure I believe any stats.

Naturally I welcome all followers. I wonder why @medievalengland (tweets about the Canterbury Tales) is following me? Am I viewed as the Pardoner or the Summoner? I shall settle for being the Narrator or the Knight is that is okay with my new friend. As to @jmstarwars (Jane Martin) – we share a common passion. Jane: may the force be with you. @King_Olaf – the King of the Isle of Man ( 1104-1153) well you truly are a silver surfer. There used to be a few hookers following me but I did not follow back so they have disappeared from my list. Typical. Only in it for one thing. No long term commitment. Tarts.

Anyhow, to new followers, welcome aboard, I shall be back blogging this afternoon.

But right now I need a walk. Two hours on skype negotiating a provision of services contract has left me feeling utterly brain dead. What makes a lawyer want to become a lawyer and produce such utter balderdash? Er.. the money. Silly me.

I work for The Real Man Pizza Company. That does not mean I serve pizzas although I am happy to help out. But it means that everyone who uses my writing or video services does so through RMPC. Today’s contract contained a clause allowing the purchaser of my services to come and inspect my place of work (the office above RMPC) for Health & Safety issues. Please… and to think some fat attorney was charging £500 an hour for drafting that?