Chris Hoffman mentioned that I was a follower he knew, which inspired me to go off and actually check some statistics that I've been curious about for a while: To compare the communities of people I interact with Facebook and Twitter.
I currently have around 387 "Friends" at Facebook. Of these, 162 are people I know from "real life" (surprisingly close to "Dunbar's Number"). These include family, friends from school, cow-orkers, and people in the local community. The other 225 are Esperanto speakers that I either know in real life (around 114) or who have added me as a friend, in spite of my not knowing them (the other 111).
I currently have 296 "followers" at twitter. Of them, only a tiny fraction I know from real life. A few are in both Facebook and Twitter, but only a handful. Probably more than half are Esperanto speakers -- it's hard to tell, because you get such limited information about people via twitter. I didn't bother to do the actual count, because both numbers are so low.
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