Six Degrees of Twitter Separation
- Author: JT Editor
- Posted on: Tuesday July 6, 2010 at 2:00 PM
- Filed under: technology, internet, twitter, connections, exclusive
Today NY Times reported that, due to Twitter, the world is in fact even smaller than we originally thought. You know the common belief that everyone on earth is connected via 6 degrees of separation, i.e. 6 friend connections? Well, according to the analysis of a company Sysomos "Twitter is, in many, ways a network with only five degrees of separation. This means that nearly everyone on Twitter is just five steps away from each other." The company Sysomos had analyzed more than 5.2 billion Twitter friendships to investigate the connectivity of the Twitter network. They also discovered that "After visiting an average of 3.32 people within the friend network, Twitter users can expect to find one of their followers"
The point is...
we are all closer than we think....
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