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"There's no reason to determine your virtual worth based solely on the number of people who follow you on Twitter \u2014 not when you can find the number of people who follow your followers, at least.\nThat's what an app launched Monday promises to tell you, and along the way, it will also name your single Most Valuable Follower. \nMVF was created by Aviary's lead of business development and partnerships, Alex Taub, and Nerve Dating developer Michael Schonfeld. The pair developed the app for fun.\n\"We aren't trying to turn this into a business,\" Taub says. \"We just wanted to build something people would want to try.\"\nThe app plays perfectly into the inherently narcissistic practice of posting to social media. In my case, for instance, I have about 5,000 followers \u2014 which may sound like a lot, but it means I reach just .0005% of Twitter's active monthly user base. Imagine my inflated sense of self-importance when I realized, however, that my followers have a combined reach of more than 12 million users. That means I can claim to reach more than one percent of the Twitterverse. \nThe app names your most valuable follower, or MVF, based on who in your following has the most followers. Mine is the main Mashable account, which has more than two million followers \u2014 meaning I took something of a shortcut to the 12 million followers-of-followers number. \nYou can make your MVF feel good with the app's option to tweet a congratulatory message. \nIf you agree to do so, the app will also show you your 2nd through 5th MVF, giving you a chance to inflate their senses of self-importance as well.\nUpdate: A large amount of traffic crashed MVF. The creators say they are working to put it back online soon.\nUpdate:The app is back online.\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, matspersson0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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