A lot of trending people seems to have smaller followings than you, it seems. 🤔
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No, it's the quality and activity of the people following me.
You don't need to have a lot of npubs following you to trend regularly, you just have to have a subset of the most-active and opinionated 10% of users regularly reading and responding.
Those followers are really demanding, tho. I work for them, they don't work for me.