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Re:50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users by mitchellh on Saturday March 26, 2011 @07:12PM (#2373495)
Interesting, but not surprising. I believe this is pretty standard human behavior. If you are creating something of value (or perceived value), the "elite" (top X%) will own a large chunk of this value.

This statistic can probably be spun around: I'm sure the 20K elite users have a large % of the total followers of every twitter user.

Similar, tangentially related: About 43% of the financial wealth of America is owned by the top 1% of American households[1].

[1]: http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

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Re:50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users by mixmax on Saturday March 26, 2011 @07:24PM (#2373527)
Financial wealth is know to follow a powerlaw distribution, this is probably the same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law

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Re:50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users by lkozma on Sunday March 27, 2011 @07:22AM (#2374727)
Or maybe not:

http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/491.html

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