It's been about a month since ter turned on its le recommendation engine, a of algorithms that enables the service to magically suggest people you don’t currently follow but may find interesting.
Twitter has indicated that these suggestions are based on a variety of factors, including the people you already follow and the people they follow. They are, for now, only visible on ter.com and the Find People section.
And based on my experience, the algorithms seem to be doing their job fine indeed - I have most certainly discovered a lot of new interesting people on Twitter who I wasn't yet following already, and my own follower count has eased significantly in the past few weeks.
So for fun, I decided to use terCounter to look up the counts for a couple of accounts I follow, to see if this is a general trend of something I'm noticing for my account only.