Interesting, but not surprising. I believe this is pretty standard human behavior. If you are creating something of value (or perceived value), the "elite" (top

Interesting, but not surprising. I believe this is pretty standard human behavior. If you are creating something of value (or perceived value), the "elite" (top X%) will own a large chunk of this value. This statistic can probably be spun around: I'm sure the 20K elite users have a large % of the total followers of every twitter user. Similar, tangentially related: About 43% of the financial wealth of America is owned by the top 1% of American households[1]. [1]: http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html