Apr 6, 2010

How Many Followers on Twitter?



A quick look at pharma and healthcare twitter accounts reveals that the number of followers is measured by hundreds up to a few thousands of followers for any pharma account at corporate level.

For example, Pfizer has about 5,800 followers and Johnson & Johnson 3,400 followers.

It might seem as big numbers, but when you take into consideration that followers can be patients, physicians, investors or simply the general public, the number of followers for each type of stakeholder is relatively small. If, for example, you could measure how many followers are actual patients from the US, probably it would appear as relatively low numbers.

There is a relation between twitter content and the numbers of actual followers. One of the accounts that I like to follow myself is provided by Roche. Here the followers recieve not only PR releases, but also posts directing to interesting articles, and there is a clear effort to use twitter to actively communicate with the following community.

Gilad Karni

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