It's quite funny you actually related the number of followers to a project. Remember Base Protocol is having a bounty so obviously, it would have more followers because there is a social media bounty. I bet there would be any high profile personalities among all these numerous followers that it has at the moment. If you care to know, this project is being followed keenly by some team members at Coin Intelligence, Concordium. Just recently, they got an invite to a private blockchain meeting MenaExpo in Dubai. See here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5253116.msg55749887#msg55749887 for more details. On top of this one of their Co-Founders actually was among the panelist during this meeting and he shared great insight about global payment system
https://twitter.com/tagionTeam/status/1335962398633713670@joinfree Thanks for the support. Actually, we are discussing this a lot at the moment in the team. Obviously, we would love to have a huge following, but our main target is to get the attention of users and developers that share our beliefs and are just as excited about the tech as we are. The end goal is to have Tagion governed as a common and driven by the community - so we need a strong community of people that share the vision and see the possibilities that Tagion provides. So, in our view, it would not do the community any good to pump it with 'fake' numbers or followers that do not support the project

/tobias