This is interesting, but the algorithm needs to be tweaked. It's cool that @barakobama follows me, but he also follows 200k other people, so it's not like I'm a special snowflake. I have other followers that are, imo, much more impressive. Some followers have 100k+ followers and only follow a few hundred accounts. Those are the people that are more exciting to find out about.
edit: Well, it's not so much that the algorithm needs to be tweaked, it's advertised as showing VIT followers and that's what it shows. Maybe sort your VIT followers by the ratio of followers/followees?
great, great response! my original service (fruji.com) did much deeper analysis (figuring out when someone is important, vs. just running a large marketing account, likeliness of large account holders actually reading your tweets based on the noise on their timeline, stuff like that) - but this took so much data-fetching from Twitter that I ended up with a 3-week onboarding process for the large users.
but what would totally make sense, based on your thinking here, is to apply some of the stats/filtering (a few buttons or sliders maybe) to help sorting those selected few verified accounts based on a few heuristics.
I'll keep thinking about that and see what I can come up with.
edit: Well, it's not so much that the algorithm needs to be tweaked, it's advertised as showing VIT followers and that's what it shows. Maybe sort your VIT followers by the ratio of followers/followees?