[axod]

Just because Justin Bieber has 6m followers, doesn't mean any of them tweet.

Twitter has always been more of a 'broadcast to followers' than a conversational tool.

[josephcooney]

> Twitter has always been more of a 'broadcast to followers' than a conversational tool.

Can you substantiate this in any way? This doesn't match my experiences using twitter at all.

[dasil003]

A friend of mine who got on the featured users list and went from 10,000 followers to 1,000,000 followers said it was like nothing changed. The number of @replies and RTs didn't increase noticeably at all.

[Locke1689]

The OP is correct. http://mashable.com/2010/03/10/twitter-follow-stats/

[Timothee]

The first time I have ever heard of Justin Bieber was by seeing his name in the trending topics for weeks in a row. (first half of the year) So a lot of Bieber fans do tweet.

[wippler]

I think twitter changed their trending topics algorithm to not show Justin Bieber every time, they opted for new popular topics instead of always popular topics.