Dunbar’s number and Twitter…

Posted by ontheroad on July 30th, 2009 | Categorized as Underachiever

I'm reading Chris Anderson's FREE at the moment (in the seven seconds of free time I have) and he mentioned a very interesting theory on the ability of a community to be function. Also the ability of someone to maintain more than 150'ish relationships.

Given my very public stance on my view of the insanity of auto-follow on Twitter and the fact that I culled my Facebook account down to under 150 people I actually know - this theory fascinated me.

Here is the Link to the Wikipedia article on the subject - very interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

btw - how INSANELY good is Wikipedia from Kirsten Dunsts height (don't ask) to Dunbars Number

Here in the Dale household a day would not go by without consulting it.

I do understand it's short comings - anything that is "opinion", political or controversial has to be read with two eyes WIDE open.

For factual stuff - it's just insanely good.

PS - It's also another great reason to have an iPhone - Wikipedia EVERYWHERE rocks!

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