Several in Twitter Following % Growth have <200 followers and a few with only 10s of followers. At these numbers 100%+ growth may not necessarily be an indicator of "hottest".
That's true. I messed with other ways of weighting it, or just putting the absolute number of new followers (e.g. Dropbox gained 70,000) but already has 2.3M. Thoughts?
What would be interesting is establishing benchmarks from the historical data you have collected around Likes/Follows/etc. Then using the benchmark, compare the weekly or monthly change for each startup relative to its previous Like/Follow count