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Nothing new to see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_Number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_Number
by mashmac2 15y ago
Nothing new to see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_Number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_Number
- noahlt 15y agoI suspect that you didn't read the article. In addition to heavily discussing Dunbar's number, the entire point of the article is that, even with the aid of social networking technology like Twitter, Dunbar's number still applies. From the article: "The bottom line is this: social networking allows us to vastly increase the number of individual we can connect with. But it does nothing to change our capability to socialise. However hard we try, we cannot maintain close links with more than about 150 buddies."
- ignifero 15y agoSo indeed, nothing new. They might have the same results if they used phone calls as well. I 'm not sure twitter is the right medium for such studies, though.