the goose

I’ve been spending too much time fricking around with twitter.  I’m almost hooked and almost ready to jack it all in.   I digress.  I checked out a list of the most popular twitter users and CNN in particular.  You can check out a graph of the rise in the number of users.  I was a little suprised to see that these graphs (all the ones I checked anyway) were a straight line.  I thought there might be a exponential rise in twitter friends.

I was thinking along the lines of the MLM pitches I’ve sat through.  In brief, the pitch is, “you get five customers, they each get five and so on” until you have thousands in your ‘downline’ all paying a commission.  Of course, out of your first five, probably none will go on to find other customers and you end up trying to sign up a hell of a lot more in search of the guy/gal who will take it to the next level.  Hence the straight line.