Less than Six Degrees of Separation on Twitter

I love this.  Sysomos Inc  have been playing around with Twitter relationships and discovered that on Twitter there are just five degrees of separation (versus six in the offline world - though actually, I've just learned from Sysomos that this last stat was based on research in the 1960s using only 240 US citizens, which doesn't seem terribly representative if you're going to apply it to the whole humnan race, as we tend to ..)  Anyhow, I digress.  Read more and enjoy the pretty graphs at Sysomos, but the upshot is that if I tweet out "[insert Celebrity name] suck donkeys. Pass it on" to my followers, and they pass it on to theirs and so forth, in an average 4.75 steps that message will have reached every single person on the Twitter network. (Including the celebrity, who would then be perfectly entitled to sue for libel.)

I like this one too, mixing on and offline connection.  There are only 3.32 steps on average between myself (real world) > friend of mine > friend of theirs > one of my Twitter followers.  What does that mean at an average party? 

Oh, it's a small world, getting smaller every day. Be careful what you tweet.  Don't do that 'sucks donkeys' thing,  please.