Watching things spread on twitter is an interesting pastime.<p>Story:<p>I posted one link in <a href="http://twitter.com/mattsta/statuses/7925973758" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/mattsta/statuses/7925973758</a><p>It got re-tweeted at <a href="http://twitter.com/diakopter/statuses/7928647495" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/diakopter/statuses/7928647495</a><p>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 <a href="http://twitter.com/merlyn/statuses/7929928766" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/merlyn/statuses/7929928766</a>.  After bouncing around the perl circle for about 24 hours, it quickly died.  The internet is a fickle mistress.<p>In short: I have no substantial twitter following, yet one post with a link generated over 1000 visits.