Value of the wheel

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(Via TweetWheel - Find out which of your Twitter friends know each other!.)

Or you can view the interactive version here.

I've always been a fan of seeing how connections work and this is one very impressive way, although I can imagine it to be more burdensome for many of those on Twitter with large numbers of followers.

But really what does this mean? What do the connections mean? anything?

Because I share connections with others does that mean I have a benefit out of that, sure mutual friends is a powerful thing on occasion but is it always a powerful thing?

Now for these new environments like Twitter where you can "follow" the musing of a particular user but they need not follow you in return the "circle" of friends can be quite powerful I can think of numerous occasions where I was trying to reach out to someone but they were "unaware" of me, but thankfully one of my other friends had a closer relationship than I to that person and thus through them I was able to complete the circle and accomplish my goal.

How about you? Do you see the value have you "lived" the value?

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