It would be more interesting to take HN interest divided by follower count.<p>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.
<i>"... 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 ..."</i><p>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.<p>Following other HN twitter users might seen as a more optimal way to select ideas/technology worth exploring or avoiding <i>"dangerous"</i> time wasters.<p>[0] <i>"Behavioural response of Crayfish to a fish predator"</i>, Stein, Magnuson ~ <a href="http://www.jstor.org/pss/1936188" rel="nofollow">http://www.jstor.org/pss/1936188</a>
I've got 359 Twitter users from Hacker News profiles on this Twitter list: <a href="http://twitter.com/tlrobinson/hackernews" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/tlrobinson/hackernews</a><p>We should compile the union of our two lists.
Interesting. I assume you did this when you were writing the code to attach people's twitter names to the @newsyc20 tweets of their submissions. I noticed that this morning and thought it was clever.
Very interesting. The top 10 are pretty expected, but the rest are more meaty. Great to see @dcurtis at #11 and @yegg at #32.<p>Wouldn't have expected @garyvee to be big with the HN crowd.<p>Definitely some people in the bottom half of the top 100 I would have expected to rank higher.
You 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?
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.)
--It would be cool to track over time.<p>--It would be cool to list which ones are on HN and put their username on there.<p>--Would you list the whole set of usernames/twitter accounts?
Would 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.<p>edit: can also look for common favorites - like <a href="http://favstar.fm" rel="nofollow">http://favstar.fm</a>
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.<p>So by observing this phenomena, you have changed it.