The Show: Anthony Weiner Pushes Out Mayoral Candidates From Twitter Driver's Seat

Tweeps monitoring Anthony Weiner's minute-to-minute growth of followers, eventually surpassing the mayoral candidates in amount of followers, all in one day.

Storified by Jacob Kornbluh · Mon, Apr 22 2013 14:25:04

Wow, Heimish Yingerman @askbooboo was first to follow @anthonyweiner 's new twitter account.

— OrthodoxPundit · Mon, Apr 22 2013 11:56:14

@anthonyweiner has 35 followers and is already a certified account? Why can't the rest of us get special treatment pic.twitter.com/lSAV1RZ1WG · Sean Simons

Only 121 followers. That should change fast #NYC #p2 RT @AlexParkerDC Hey, back on Twitter, it's @anthonyweiner!

— Dave McW · Mon, Apr 22 2013 11:33:59

He's only been on Twitter for like 2 hours, but @AnthonyWeiner is already up past 300 followers. By the end of the day, how many?

— Russell Schaffer · Mon, Apr 22 2013 11:35:28

.@anthonyweiner's new Twitter account has 616 followers so far. Check back at end of day. (fixed link)

— Alicia M. Cohn · Mon, Apr 22 2013 11:38:35

So @AnthonyWeiner is rapidly approaching 1,000 followers after launching account just two hours ago. Not following anyone as of yet.

— Russell Schaffer · Mon, Apr 22 2013 11:39:56

@anthonyweiner >1K followers in an hour - while mayoral foes @Quinn4NY @BillThompsonNYC @JohnLiu2013 @deBlasioNYC all have <5K after months

— Harry Siegel · Mon, Apr 22 2013 11:48:27

The new Twitter handle for @AnthonyWeiner is gaining like 10 followers per minute.

— Russell Schaffer · Mon, Apr 22 2013 11:48:34

@anthonyweiner switches handles today. So far: 1 tweet, 1,500+ followers. No pictures.

— Brock Benefiel · Mon, Apr 22 2013 11:52:37

Wow! @anthonyweiner's followers are growing by the minute!

— MariaJesusV · Mon, Apr 22 2013 11:55:48

.@anthonyweiner has gained followers at a phenomenal rate over the past few minutes.

— Michael Barbaro · Mon, Apr 22 2013 11:59:45

.@AnthonyWeiner has > 2K followers. how that compare 2 other mayoral candidates capi.tl/12Cn4Xb cc: @JoshGreenman @HuffPostMedia

— Azi Paybarah · Mon, Apr 22 2013 12:11:56

OH: "Gosh, @anthonyweiner has more followers than me now!"

— Ethan Klapper · Mon, Apr 22 2013 12:17:42

Possible NY mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner starting fresh on Twitter w .@anthonyweiner (Tweets: 2; following: 0; Followers: 2127)

— Edith Honan · Mon, Apr 22 2013 12:19:02

And @AnthonyWeiner has surpassed @Quinn4NY in Twitter followers. He did in like three hours what has taken her months.

— Russell Schaffer · Mon, Apr 22 2013 13:11:34

For those keeping track, @anthonyweiner is now up to 3,179 followers... Reminds me of my new media plan: crotch shots 24/7.

— Harry Enten · Mon, Apr 22 2013 13:21:19

Back on twitter today 2 years after "incident": Anthony Weiner as @anthonyweiner he's at 3677 followers right now.

— Blair Miller · Mon, Apr 22 2013 13:44:49