So what if the functionality is the same? It's the community and the khutzba that differentiates.
Twitter users most followed by readers of Hacker News
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#12I'm both amused that I follow probably more than half of the that list, and saddened by the fact there is only one woman on the list.
I am also saddened that there is only one woman in the list. If you're interested in following more women in tech on twitter, mashable published this list today: http://mashable.com/2010/07/28/developer-hacker-women-twitte...
Re: Twitter users most followed by readers of Hacker News
#13It would be more interesting to take HN interest divided by follower count.
If 100 HNers follow someone with 100,000 followers, that's sort of interesting. If someone has 100 followers, and 80 of them are HNers, that's more significant.
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#14I just followed several people on that list that i wasn't previously. A great list - thanks for putting it together!
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#15I just double-checked my profile page, and there is no blank for a Twitter account. How did you scrub the profile field to detect such accounts? (Mine’s the same username between HN, Twitter, and Reddit, among others.)
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#16your #1 seems like bullshit, too small sample size or inaccurate demographics.
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#17Would be interesting to see an app that took a twitter list, sent a tweet out to those in it to authenticate with the service, and from there create 3 additional feeds based on "retweets_of_me" "retweeted_by_me" and "retweeted_to_me" -- the idea would be to concentrate the best tweets in one place regarding a set of twitter users.
edit: can also look for common favorites - like http://favstar.fm
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#18You should probably re-run your script to catch all the people who added their twitter handle to their HN bios today as a result of your list :). Or even run it on a cron so we can see it change over time?
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#19I just double-checked my profile page, and there is no blank for a Twitter account. How did you scrub the profile field to detect such accounts? (Mine’s the same username between HN, Twitter, and Reddit, among others.)
I just made a bunch of regular expressions that capture phrases like "http://twitter.com/foobar or "I'm @foobar on twitter", etc.
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#20"... One of the best ways to find interesting people to follow on Twitter is to look and see who other smart people are already following ..."
There's could be a scientific explanation for this. It's been noted in fish, crustacean populations that behaviour is influenced by the predators. [0] Random choice appears to be non-optimal making decisions.
Following other HN twitter users might seen as a more optimal way to select ideas/technology worth exploring or avoiding "dangerous" time wasters.
[0] "Behavioural response of Crayfish to a fish predator", Stein, Magnuson ~ http://www.jstor.org/pss/1936188