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I was a little reluctant to write this post because much of the Twitter community is fixated with follower count. I see many tweets, even in my own stream, of certain people announcing that they reached 500, 1,000, 5,000 Twitter followers as if it’s some sort of huge achievement like receiving a Grammy Award or something. Of course I understand that community acceptance and ego is important to all of us at times so I can see why someone would share that information. However, the misconception is that follower count somehow equates to various levels of influence on the social…