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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.304 [SLACK_000518] · slack_pm:msg:03185

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Date
2020-12-09 13:04
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker
Andrew Rambaut

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She has many of the finest people following her

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  1. 2020-12-09 12:15 Edward C. Holmes open
    Does she not have anything else to do? She's another of those people that have just become obsessed by their Twitter following.
  2. 2020-12-09 12:27 Kristian G. Andersen open
    We need to get back to the good old days where Nick Loman was the only one with a lot of Twitter followers and was the only one really Tweeting - mostly about bowel movements, drinks, random stuff from an exciting day of being Loman, and, sometimes, good science.
  3. 2020-12-09 12:57 Andrew Rambaut open
    But she only has 9000 followers!
  4. 2020-12-09 13:00 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Andrew, it's the quality of your followers, not the quantity that counts.
  5. 2020-12-09 13:04 Andrew Rambaut
    She has many of the finest people following her
  6. 2020-12-09 13:08 Edward C. Holmes open
    In her mind it is millions of followers and she is the voice of truth
  7. 2020-12-09 13:09 Kristian G. Andersen open
    WELL. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2020-12-09 at 13.08.36.png, Screen Shot 2020-12-09 at 13.09.12.png]
  8. 2020-12-09 13:11 Edward C. Holmes open
    Love it! More fake followers than most.
  9. 2020-12-09 13:11 Andrew Rambaut open
    Cool. How many have I got?

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