The Wallace Line

Somehow I'm on TechRepublic's mailing list.  A blog entry lists the top 140 tech experts on Twitter. There seemed to be a lot of Americans there, so I thought I'd find out.

• 1.  Extract the list from the blog HTML and cache in the database
• 2.  Parse the entries in the list, and for each:

• 2.1 Use the twitter address to fetch the home page (at 01:00 UTC on 9th March)
  2.2 Parse the page to get the location and numbers of followers and following .
  2.3 Use Google Geocoder API to convert the location to lat / long
  2.4 Store in the database

• 3.  Hand scan the generated XML for misses - dont think that the lat/long for  "Earth" is right
• 4. Transform the XML to a sortable table
• 5. Transform to KML to map the locations of the Tweeters

Yep, all but 3 in the USA

Only UK name I recognise : Jack Schofield (#100)

Guy Kawasaki follows the most (240,262)

Pete Cashmore is most followed (1,972,609)