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"... 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…
I 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.
"... 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…
I'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...
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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...
What is so sad about it? Are you also saddened by the fact that are few blacks/hispanics/[ethnic]?
So by observing this phenomena, you have changed it.
I've got like 20 new follows by being on that list, even if near the bottom. Those at the top have probably changed even more. So by observing this phenomena, you have changed it.