If 100 HNers follow someone with 100,000 followers, that's sort of interesting. If someone has 100 followers, and 80 of them are HNers, that's more significant.

There's could be a scientific explanation for this. It's been noted in fish, crustacean populations that behaviour is influenced by the predators. [0] Random choice appears to be non-optimal making decisions.

Following other HN twitter users might seen as a more optimal way to select ideas/technology worth exploring or avoiding "dangerous" time wasters.

[0] "Behavioural response of Crayfish to a fish predator", Stein, Magnuson ~ http://www.jstor.org/pss/1936188

We should compile the union of our two lists.

http://twitter.com/DHS/hacker-news

Wouldn't have expected @garyvee to be big with the HN crowd.

Definitely some people in the bottom half of the top 100 I would have expected to rank higher.

--It would be cool to list which ones are on HN and put their username on there.

--Would you list the whole set of usernames/twitter accounts?

edit: can also look for common favorites - like http://favstar.fm

So by observing this phenomena, you have changed it.