[hardik988]

This is OT: I've always wanted to take a crack at a couple of problems/semi-thought-experiments I came up with:

1) Find the verified Twitter account followed by minimum number of users - This is easy, since Twitter maintains an official list of verified accounts at https://twitter.com/verified/following . We could iterate over this list, and find the minimum.

2) Find the maximum-followed non-verified Twitter account. Now this is a harder problem. Does anyone have any ideas apart from brute-forcing Twitter handles?

[marshray]

2) I think you'd be likely to find it by just crawling the graph, but it'd be very hard to prove that you had found it. For example, @sockington https://twitter.com/sockington has 1.4M followers.

[adventured]

https://twitter.com/UberSoc/

10 million followers. Not verified.

Pretty sure they win. They're in the to 50 on the followers list, and the rest are basically singers or really famous.