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Have you set yourself any blogging goals?

If you have, great. If you haven’t, I’d suggest you should.

A common blogging goal is to reach the milestone of X number of followers. Aiming for 100 initially, then 1,000, then 5,000 and so on.

Many Twitter users, perhaps even the majority, strive towards achieving a specific ‘followers’ goal.

Yesterday (May 13th 2009) Xavier Lur had 66,988 followers on Twitter!

So who is Xavier Lur?

Xavier is the most followed 15-year-old on Twitter and a blogging phenomenon from Singapore. His TechXav blog is an absolute mine of information on new technology and social media.

A self-confessed ‘geek’ Xavier loves to write and clearly has a flare for his passion.

“I’m just a 15-year-old student who loves blogging and I am keen to share my tech knowledge with all you guys via my blog. Running this tech blog is just one of my interests and a place for me to kill time.

“I blog on TechXav about Web 2.0 apps, online tips and news. I have good experience in technology (especially the Internet), search engine optimization (SEO), web designing, the blogosphere and even the Twitterverse.”

Xavier has wisely suspended writing any posts as he’s in the middle of exams at school. A smart move. That said, there’s no doubt his posting will come thick and fast once his exams are over.

Does Xavier’s long-term career goal include blogging?

“I’ve planned to put professional blogging as part of my hobby and my main careers goals is to become a financial investor just like Warren Buffett and maybe a psychologist (not so sure yet).”

Although Xavier is without doubt the driving force behind his TechXav blog, he does have the luxury of a co-editor to help him. 14-year-old Zhou Tong, who has a ‘mere’ 1,007 Twitter followers. I suspect that’s a goal achieved… 7 followers ago!