I’m kind of curious… How large is the Micro.blog community? Or the micro pub community at large? /cc @man

@prologic Manton hasn’t released any numbers yet, so we use the “Philpin Number”—@JohnPhilpin is famous for following just about everyone he comes across, so we periodically look and see what his “Following N users you aren’t following” is (it needs a multiplier, certainly, though I don’t know what the right one might be).

@smokey I see 😁 your mention of John didn’t link correctly

@prologic Yeah, seems like the @-mentions need to have a leading space or start-of-line before them….

@smokey so 2868 followers of @johnphilpin

@smokey oh I didn’t notice the lack of space ha ha I guess the parser must require the leading space

@prologic So there are at least 2869 people here :-)

@prologic Yeah, I don’t think it always used to, so it’s tripping me up :-)

@smokey LOL Because @JohnPhilpin doesn't follow me yet ? :D

@prologic Hrm, you’ve been pretty active the last couple of days, so he may have already found you (and we’ll need to subtract that extra 1 I added)!

@smokey 🤣

@prologic yet !! Thanks for the heads up 😎