Want to know how you can tell you made it? When the amount of new people who follow you on Twitter each day exceeds the number of new accounts that are created. According to the IBM's Machine Learning Group, Lady Gaga is that popular.
The Machine Learning Group, stationed at IBM's headquarters in Yorktown Heights, NY, uses live Twitter streams to develop more intelligent computers, a process known as "machine learning".
Speaking to Business Insider, Rick Lawrence, the head of the Machine Learning Group, shared some of what his team has learned by spending days upon days pouring over Twitter timelines. One of the things they learned was that Lady Gaga is so damn famous that she gains followers faster than Twitter can mint new users.