Both Urban Meyer and Jim Harbaugh pass 1M twitter followers.... ish

Deadspin: Jim Harbaugh And Urban Meyer Reach Dumb Twitter Milestone With Fake Followers

So we all know that the future of recruiting is through Social Media. Hell, we're even allowed to have coaches and teams tweet recruits directly, so it definitely pays to have your outreach be as big as possible, right? Well, in that case, Urban Meyer and Jim Harbaugh just laid down the gauntlet to all of college football by being the first to surpass 1,000,000 twitter followers in the coaching ranks. Except, this might not actually be the case. Let Deadspin explain:

Sixteen months ago both coaches had around 270,000 followers, and as recently as a month ago, according to Twitter Counter, Meyer had 807,685, and Harbaugh had 797,068. But in the last month they've each gained about 200,000 followers, thousands each day. Between Sept. 13 and Oct. 3, for instance, Meyer somehow gained exactly 7,042 followers each day, while between Sept. 13 and Sept. 22, Harbaugh somehow gained exactly 5,582 followers each day.

According to Twitter Audit, just 41 percent of Meyer's Twitter followers are real, and just 40 percent of Harbaugh's Twitter followers are.

I mean, don't get me wrong, this is by no means against the rules, but to see that each coach potentially has upwards of 600k twitter bots following them to retweet everything they say just seems.... wrong. But then again, especially when it comes to Harbaugh, pretty much everything he's done since he got there is just dripping in the icky factor.