I know most people won’t care about my Twitter count or how many Facebook followers I haz, but I like to keep records and play with the numbers, occasionally. And, it is, perhaps, possibly, remotely, vaguely interesting or amusing or boring that a non-planetary alignment is set to occur on March 24 when the number of people following me on Twitter is predicted to reach 10,000 and the number of Facebook fans of my page is foretold as reaching 3,000.

TwitterCounter and a linear regression done in an Excel spreadsheet tell me it will be so:

What else happened on March 24? According to On This Day, BBC and Wikipedia:

1494 – Georg Agricola, German scientist (d. 1555)

1550 – France and England signed the Peace of Boulogne

1720 – In Paris, banking houses closed due to financial crisis

1848 – A state of siege was proclaimed in Amsterdam

1882 – In Berlin, German scientist Robert Koch announced the discovery of the tuberculosis germ (bacillus)

1883 – The first telephone call between New York and Chicago took place

1898 – The first automobile was sold

1946 – The Soviet Union announced that it was withdrawing its troops from Iran

1965: Millions watch space probe crash into Moon

1978: Tanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two
Violent seas split the wreck of the super tanker destroying any hopes of salvaging any remaining oil.

1989 – The Exxon Valdez spilled 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil in Alaska’s Prince William Sound after it ran aground

2001 – Apple Inc. releases the first version of the Mac OS X operating system

2002 – Death of César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)