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.
I agree with you - I don't get this 'not enough women in tech' thing. If something is predominantly gender specific then does it matter? I don't see anyone actively discouraging women from being involved, the plain simple fact is that most aren't interested!
It 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.
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.)
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.
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?
"... 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.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 68.8 ms ] threadWouldn't have expected @garyvee to be big with the HN crowd.
Definitely some people in the bottom half of the top 100 I would have expected to rank higher.
We should compile the union of our two lists.
http://twitter.com/DHS/hacker-news
--It would be cool to list which ones are on HN and put their username on there.
--Would you list the whole set of usernames/twitter accounts?
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.
edit: can also look for common favorites - like http://favstar.fm
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
But the most interesting is how Women hunt in packs ~ http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolved-primate/201006/c... and more interesting how Men adapt to this.
So by observing this phenomena, you have changed it.