This is a trifle but I think it's pretty neat - something that we've all seen happen many times in one way or another, but I've never had a chance to document like this.
I was browsing reddit Monday night and I saw two links on the front page that took you to a Twitter account called @shitmydadsays. I'm not going to attempt to improve on perfection so here's that account's profile description: "I'm 28. I live with my 73-year-old dad. He is awesome. I just write down shit that he says". An example:
"The dog is not bored, it's a fucking dog. It's not like he's waiting for me to give him a fucking rubix cube. He's a god damned dog."
I wasn't alone in finding this perfectly hilarious, because the account had around 25,000 followers when I first saw it around 9pm GMT on Monday. I was a fool then and neglected to take a screenshot, but I amended this on subsequent visits.
By the end of the night the account had been linked to from the front page of reddit and Buzzfeed. With at least two big aggregators linking and people like me passing it along to friends, the number of followers just exploded.
It's fun and weirdly gratifying to watch a literal overnight success in motion. And I'm genuinely looking forward to the next thing his dad says.
UPDATE: My friend Mat Morrison sends along a link to TwitterCounter, which charts a Twitter account's followers. Thanks, Mat!
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