It's always weird when people I follow on Twitter turn out to be following, or at least know about, each other. Really, Ohio-based sci-fi author John Scalzi, you follow Nigerian-American author Teju Cole? It got to strange levels today when the only other country accounts I follow - Ireland and Sweden - started conversing. What were the odds of that? There has to be some weird aspect of the human psyche that brings people of eclectic backgrounds together, people that seemingly don’t have anything in common, yet are drawn to one another.
I’m thinking you could study this if you mapped out all the people on Twitter. You know, people who follow each other are placed close to each other on the graph, so you could find people nearby who are most similar. We could use this to introduce ourselves. Tell me about yourself. I'm in sector E-27-5.3, and yourself?
And surely it would be easier to meet people this way. Currently there are meet-up groups for a variety of interests, even meet-ups for Twitter itself. But instead people could get together with others who follow the same people.
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