[Plasma Shield]

Yeah, I’m slow to the scene, I have laggy internet.

I came across twitter as I was listening to a few podcasts and checked it out. It seems to be a Microblogging service, with plenty of tech web 2.0 celebrities using it’s services.

It’s pretty cool that Obama is on it, even cooler that Leo Laporte of the TWiT network is 100 short of Obama’s followers(at the time of writing), consider how Obama is a likely presidential candidate, hmm I wonder if he will keep twittering if he does get elected as the new president. stats

Hey, I think I can model Obama’s increase of followers. Linear equations for the proverbial win.

If projection construction data range is from the 1st of may to 6th of may the equations for Obama is:

243.6x+27073.4=y

x being the days after April 30th
y being the projected number of followers.

7th of May projected followers: 28778.6
8th of May projected followers: 29022.2
9th of May projected followers: 29265.8
10th of May projected followers: 29509.4

And the projection equation for Leo would be:

372x+26176=y

again,
x being the days after April 30th
y being the projected number of followers.

7th of May projected followers: 28780
8th of May projected followers: 29152
9th of May projected followers: 29524
10th of May projected followers: 29896

So, assuming that my projections are more-or-less accurate, and the growth in followers for both parties are not some crazy parabolas with a really really large dilations. Leo’s followers should overtake Obama’s followers either at the end of the day during 7th of May, or something really early in the morning during 8th of May.