This Is the Reason Everyone Has More Twitter Followers Than You

The grocery store is always more crowded when you go, and everyone you regularly see at the gym is in better shape than you. Even your own friends are more popular than you. And it turns out you aren't paranoid, and you don't have shit luck. Why not? Simple: the friendship paradox.

The friendship paradox says there is a greater chance that someone with more friends will be your friend than someone with fewer friends, just as there is a greater chance that you will be at the grocery store during peak hours or that the fit people at the gym exercise more often than you. It's the odds—you can only attest to what you see​. 

In a digital take on the friendship paradox, a recent study confirms the concept carries over to Twitter: the people you follow on Twitter are more likely to have more followers than you. According to The Washington Post, researches found that with millions of people on Twitter, every user followed more popular accounts with more activity than their own. It's a hierarchy. 

Which makes us wonder: What lonely Twitter egg is at the bottom?