Watching things spread on twitter is an interesting pastime.

Story:

I posted one link in http://twitter.com/mattsta/statuses/7925973758

It got re-tweeted at http://twitter.com/diakopter/statuses/7928647495

Now, diakopter seems to be a gatekeeper to the perl community because from him it got picked up by merlyn, who has a high perl community eigenvector centrality, at http://twitter.com/merlyn/statuses/7929928766. After bouncing around the perl circle for about 24 hours, it quickly died. The internet is a fickle mistress.

In short: I have no substantial twitter following, yet one post with a link generated over 1000 visits.

here is another example of #hashtag "manipulation"

http://stilgherrian.com/human-nature/fisting-twitter/