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This will prove I am not a statistician.. but I was mildly wondering today about patterns among people who twitter, as I glanced at my friends, as well as random people on the public timeline and the number of friends and followers on their pages. It seems there might be some behavior patterns there. Some generalizations:

• A lot of people in my circle have similar ratios of friends to followers, people perhaps shy? more selective, with ratios about 0.4-0.6.
• There are some more or less companies, entities using this solely to push content out; they have maybe one friend (so they are not really following others) and a few hundred followers, ratios < 0.2
• Others have rather high ratios of friends to followers, > 1.0, even as high as 2.0 — these might be the uber socialites, the ones who seek to have as much as possible from other. Social Seekers?

This was hardly a scientific process or sample, just an experiment in curiosity — what would be cool is to have someone who knows how to dabble in the API to go in and pull out piles of data like this and plot it. Or maybe it means nothing.

Anyhow, my data looked like:

and for reference, the data points are from:

• http://twitter.com/GardnerCampbell
• http://twitter.com/cogdog
• http://twitter.com/brlamb
• http://twitter.com/fceblog
• http://twitter.com/rushaw
• http://twitter.com/colecamplese
• http://twitter.com/dnorman
• http://twitter.com/jimgroom
• http://twitter.com/markwallace
• http://twitter.com/intellagirl
• http://twitter.com/hrheingold
• http://twitter.com/twitterlit
• http://twitter.com/RadHetrtz
• http://twitter.com/notstevenwright
• http://twitter.com/ApolloApps
• http://twitter.com/DellOutlet
• http://twitter.com/FoxyTunesDJ

And not knowing much, toying around in Excel, I made a graph….

Does it mean anything? I dunno, but what’s in your ratio?

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